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10-11-2011

Claudio Nardi: Mocak in Krakow

Viewing industrial architecture as a link between the past and present of a place, Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli have converted the old Schindler cookware factory, the place where 1200 Jews were saved from extermination by the Nazis, into a contemporary art museum (Mocak).

12-09-2011

Mazzanti-Mesa: new stadium in Medellín

Giancarlo Mazzanti and Felipe Mesa have built a community centre in Medellin, Colombia which fits into a series of works sharing the common theme of a focus on social value, on the life of the city and the integration of its people. Characterised by varied repetition of a pattern, the roof is a symbol of the creative standardisation apparent in the two architects’ recent projects.

05-08-2011

REX/OMA: The Dee and Charles Wyly Theater

Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas doesn?t look like a theatre.

11-07-2011

World Cup Nordic Oslo 2011: Ski Jump by JDS

Archistar JDS designs a symbolic work focusing the world’s attention on the city of Oslo, a formerly overlooked Scandinavian capital which is now the world’s ski jumping capital, under the flag of the ski jump built for the 2011 world championships in Holmenkollen. Lit up at night, the work is a landmark celebrating the city and its favourite sport.

11-04-2011

Todd Saunders’s tower between Norway and Sweden

The town of Sarpsborg is located near ?stfold in Norway, at one of the key border crossings to Sweden.

10-03-2011

Tourism routes in Norway: Aurland

Having won a national competition for the promotion of tourism in Norway, Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen designed a construction representing a surprisingly successful equilibrium between a lookout for viewing the landscape and a work of architecture which is itself a sight worth seeing.

10-03-2011

Tourism routes in Norway: Trollstigen

RRA’s recently completed plans for a lookout over the fjords of Trollstigen is a work in which both materials and composition are inspired entirely by landscape. Cor-ten steel changes colour with the action of time, camouflaging the construction and demonstrating that being sustainable does not just mean consuming less energy: it means reducing visual impact on the environment.