The Best of the Week

Our tour of the east begins with a home built by the Romanian studio Andreescu & Gaivoronski near Timisoara, a project in which natural light plays a key role.
We go on to look at the plans for the new stadium for FC BATE Borisov, a Belarussian football team, designed by Slovenian studio OFIS Architects, and an open-air theatre, Viljandi Festival Arena, designed by Kadarik Tüür Architects in Tallinn, before proceeding to Moscow for a sneak preview of MosBuild 2015.
A former Soviet republic, Azerbaijan, is one of the first countries to present its pavilion at Expo Milano 2015, which we look at in Floornature before going on to a country with a very different climate: Mexico, which has built one of the most widely acclaimed Expo pavilions.
Continuing to focus on the World’s Fair in Milan, we report that Expo Gate, the pavilion designed by Scandurra Studio as a gateway between the city and the World’s Fair, has been shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award, a prestigious prize for architecture in Europe.
We conclude this week’s news with a look at the exhibition Big - Hot To Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation which opened recently at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, looking at projects built by BIG all over the world.

(Agnese Bifulco)

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