March 10

Foresta nascosta, virtuous example of temporary public museum in San Giuliano Milanese

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(Text by Milena Sacchi, all images © foresta nascosta)

If you’re looking for something outside of the mainstream galleries and traditional art locations, you can visit “foresta nascosta” (“Hidden Forest”), the gorgeous public temporary museum created by Matteo Balduzzi, Daniele Cologna and Stefano Laffi in order to make the suburban neighbourhood of San Giuliano Milanese narrate its stories. I can tell you with a certain mastery – part of my family lives in San Giuliano Milanese – that this location, developed as a residential neigbourhood between the countryside and industrial areas in the Second Postwar, is not among Milan’s most charming outskirts. That’s why I’m so glad about this initiative and I think it must have been welcomed and meaningful to its audience.
The concept of Hidden Forest derives from the dormitory town trend, involves citizens to be curators of their own heritage and displays a research for collective memory. Read more

July 20

MVRDV with Blanca Lleó complete Celosia Residence, Madrid

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(All photographs by Ricardo Espinosa)

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MVRDV with Blanca Lleo: Celosia Building. © R.Espinosa

(Madrid, 16 July 2009) In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartments in the just completed Celosia building. Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV and Blanca Lleó have completed the social housing block near the Mirador Building, which is an earlier collaboration. The perforated block of Celosia assembles 146 apartments, communal outside areas throughout the building, and parking and commercial program in the plinth. The total floor area is 21,550m2. With a construction cost of 12,6 million Euro the apartments can be sold for affordable prizes. The city block is opened and allows wind and light to enter the building, offering vistas and outside spaces contrasting the surrounding area. The client is EMVS, the public housing corporation of the city of Madrid. Read more

July 7

Goo Gone

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July 6

Aesthetics of Crossing exhibition

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June 8

PEEP houses by Ludens Architetti.
The good italian suburbs.

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(Text by Luca Molinari, photos © Paola De Pietri, drawings and project description © Ludens Architetti)

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Video © Roberta Bruschini, Annagiulia Gregori, Michela Ruffo

A shy but well drawn terraced little houses regain my opinion on a quite objectionable house category (maybe for the too many, bad available examples) and suggest me that in the middle of Padana plain, in Reggio Emilia, an architecture studio is blossoming and I think Ludens will save us interesting surprises in the next future. Peep houses are among these surprises. The design is severe and simple without falling into thr low-cost house cheap rhetoric. The basis of the project concept seems to lie in its clean contemporary line which could rehabilitate the discouraging imagery of our outskirts, like an antivirus able to bring back those fragments of The Netherlands, Slovenia, Switzerland and Belgium that we usually appreciate. Read more

April 9

Park and Children’s Recreation Centre
by StudioUAP at Corviale, Rome

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(Images courtesy of StudioUAP)

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IQU INNOVAZIONE E QUALITA’ URBANA EuroP.A. 2009 PRIZE

LAND AND STUDIOUAP AWARDED
PARK AND CHILDREN’S RECREATION CENTRE AT CORVIALE – ROME

The project for the renovation of the Public Park and the new Children’s Centre next to the Corviale Housing in the outskirts of Rome, designed by LAND Srl and StudioUAP, has been awarded as the best initiative for the Innovation and Urban Quality Section of the Fifth edition of the IQU PRIZE (www.euro-pa.it). Read more

April 7

Extension of Lonate Ceppino Public Library by DAP Studio

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(Photos © Luigi Filatici, drawings courtesy of DAP Studio)

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The pre-existing building for the new Lonate Ceppino Public Library already belonged to Lonate Ceppino’s historical heritage. On a rectangular plan, the two levelled buildings housed the Civic Library on the ground floor, while the first floor had been left unused. From the outside, the main entrance façade has a higher decorative part which is independent from the roof structure. This façade stands out further on the building gutter line and laterally its design suggests the idea of an unfinished bell tower. Read more

March 13

Two new projects by MVRDV

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You guys know we like MVRDV and there’s no need to repeat it, so let’s get down to business and talk about two of their most recent projects: the Westerdok Apartment Building and a vision for Greater Paris 2030.

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Westerwok Apartment Building by MVRDV. Photo © Rob’t Hart

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February 3

Castleford Bridge by McDowell+Benedetti

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(Photos © Tim Soar)

Residents of Castleford, Yorkshire, UK took their first steps across Castleford Footbridge on July 2008 when the bridge was officially opened by Wakefield Council Leader Peter Box and TV presenter Kevin McCloud.
The £4.8 million bridge has been funded by Wakefield Council, Yorkshire Forward and English Partnerships. It creates a safer more pleasant pedestrian route than the 200 year-old Victorian road bridge further downstream. The new bridge unites the north and south of the Castleford’s riverside community connecting Aire Street to Mill Lane. Read more

January 13

Worldwide Complaint City Choir

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Screaming citizens of all towns, join your forces and sing your urban neuroses!
That’s basically the funny idea the finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kotcha/Kalleinen first organized in Birmingham in 2005. A Complaint Choir to give a – melodic and ironic – voice to the city dweller. Traffic jams, slowcoach-like public transport and lack of (cheap) amusement places can now be sung in a process of community involvement. From the businessman to the pensioner and the mother, everybody has the right at least to complain and usually something to complain about. Dozens of cities all around the world have already adhered and started their musical production and the complaint repertoires are exhilarating. Read more

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