A10 provides a concise and up-to-date survey of the latest developments in European architecture, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea.
Sections in A10:
On the spot
News and observations
Molenaar & Van Winden’s monumental assemblage of Zaan dwelling types in Zaandam (NL)
Olivier Bastin of l’Escaut is Brussels’ first ‘Bouwmeester’ (BE)
More than from A to B: the latest crop of bridge designs
Update: Young Brits
Thessaloniki’s new waterfront (GR)
Reality check: Cité du Design, Saint-Étienne (FR)
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New projects
Holiday houses (UK) by Hopkins Architects, Nord Architecture, Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects
Residential landscape, Jurmala (LV) by Sergey Kisselev & Partners
Cultural centre, Olomouc (CZ) by Jan Sepka
Physical education facilities, Belgrade (RS) by Ivana Popovic and Milo Mirosavic
Interview
Tony Fretton talks about his work – ‘my original desire was to be a painter until I discovered architecture as a social art’ – and his international activities: ‘As a British architect you have to work outside your own country in order to reach the scale of audience and clientele that lets you fully develop an oeuvre.’
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New buildings
Museum, Nottingham (UK) by Caruso St. John
Seafarers’ centre, Helsinki (FI) by ARK-house Architects
House, Brussels (BE) by Gon Zifroni
Offices and cultural space, Bucharest (RO) by Re-Act
Urban villa, Amsterdam (NL) by NL Architects
Town house, Landskrona (SE) by Elding Oscarson
Bank headquarters, Vilnius (LT) by Audrius Ambrasas architects
Home for the elderly, Zurich (CH) by Gäumann Lüdi von der Ropp Architekten
Office building, Podgorica (MK) by ARCVS
Apartment building, Linz (AT) by Xarchitekten
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Glass and daylight
Glass has long since ceased to be synonymous with ‘transparency’ in architecture. In the course of a century or more, sheet glass has evolved from a filling for window openings into a fully fledged facade cladding – used both climatically and decoratively – and even into a structural material. Despite this, architects continue to use glass primarily to bring daylight into a building, either to achieve a particular effect, or for the purely functional purpose of lighting a space.
Eurovision
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Christian Welzbacher analyses the International Building Exhibition 2010 in Saxony-Anhalt (DE) which deals with urban redevelopment
An architectural tour of Milan (IT)
Office: L6’s garage-studio, Sofia (BG)
Out of obscurity
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Mihajlo Mitrovic’s Genex Towers, also known as the Western City Gate, marking the entrance to New Belgrade, are an important landmark for the Serbian capital. Vesna Vucinic describes the distinctive beauty of this highlight of ‘Yugoslav Brutalism’.
