February 2007
division of Archi-Europe


 Editiorial


Archi-Students Creative Awards

Last January, thanks to the sheer variety of its exhibitors and of its events, the Bau 2007 trade fair lived up to its reputation as a key date in the construction industry calendar. The comprehensive offer, structured around materials, numerous thematic poles, conferences and mountains of brochures, provided a wealth of information about architecture using glass, steel, timber and bricks. At the heart of the debates: intelligent facades, the integration of photovoltaic technologies into constructions, energy efficiency, the renovation of old buildings and technical management systems.

This event, totally dedicated to the art of building, provided the ideal setting for the first Archi-Students International Congress. Following talks by its distinguished guests and the eagerly awaited speeches of the architects Kengo Kuma and Massimiliano Fuksas, the stage was set for the final of the Archi-Students Creative Awards. Chaired by Massimiliano Fuksas in person, the jury had previously selected the 12 shortlisted winners, divided into four categories, which we present to you in this edition in full. However, we would like to say a very big thank you to each of the 738 students who sent us their project. Each and every one of them has contributed to the success of this first competition. Representing 173 schools of architecture in 67 countries, these students demonstrated a vivid imagination and often a high degree of professionalism in the exposition of the proposals, conveying their own culture and personality.

With obvious pleasure, the President of the Jury awarded the 1st prize in the Free Style category to Justina Padvarskaite's « Reading Cab » reading cabins. This Lithuanian, who studies at the Academy of Vilnius , has grounds for celebration. Her award will earn her a 6 month internship in Rome in one of the most prestigious architectural firms: that of Massimiliano Fuksas.


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Archi-Students Creative Awards 2007


Free Style Award

1st Price : « Reading Cab »
from Justina Padvarskaite (Kaunas - Lituania)
Académie de Vilnius

The project offers a blueprint for the revitalisation of a site that is part of a large leisure park at the heart of Kaunas , the Oak Tree Park . At the current point in time, the site in question is deserted, despite the superb view. The architectural concept is hinged on the fluctuation of a building in space. To make up for the shortage of space inside the municipal library, mobile reading cabins would be scattered throughout the park so as not to disturb the three-hundred year old oak trees. The steel structures, joined together in four fractions, carry glazed units, designed as living organisms that look out at the panorama above the trees.


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2nd Price : « Zero Killed »
from Bram Van Cauter (Zaventem - Belgium)
Sint-Lucas Architectuur Brussel

Like something out of a science fiction film, this project is nevertheless well anchored in today's very down-to-earth search for alternative energies. In an attempt to get around the criticisms voiced about wind power (wind, visual pollution, excessively high maintenance costs), this architectural proposal takes the form of prefabricated modules to be installed in the North Atlantic at a depth of around 80 m . Each module sunk in the water is composed of foundations containing a generator, a vertical circulation axis, several platforms, living units and a rotary helix equipped with a cover for a better performance.




3rd Price : « Bologna - Battiferro : lungo l'argine, guardando il cielo »
from Paolo Ferrari (Bologne - Italy)

This urban regeneration project for the department of Astronomy of Bologna University, situated in the northern suburbs alongside the Navile canal, sets out to reconnect this zone to the city centre. The design of the buildings, set out along the waterway, which once carried ships to the sea, openly evokes the history of the canal to give the place a strong identity, the idea of boats moving on the water for example. The other concept is derived from the subdivision of the canal into two parallel lanes which is reflected in the architectural implantation.




Glass Award

1st Price : Skypod³ Eventcenter
from Jerôme Anton, Daniel Castilla Toledo, Annegret Lochbrunner (Munich - Germany)
Technische Universität München - Faculty of architecture

A temporary, mobile and multifunctional construction with a light structure, capable of serving as a venue for different events in the Engadine region. Like a diamond, the structure created in aluminium girders touches the ground in only three places. It has no impact whatsoever on nature and the environment. Thanks to its pyramidal form, the roof, which is as big as the ground surface area, provides a vast surface for solar energy.


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2nd Price : « Together »
from Aknazar Tumenbaev (Kyrenia - Cyprus)
Girne American University

A construction that is highly symbolic of recent Cypriot policy, the project is seen as a federative element to bring together the two entities. The monumental building featuring two interlaced hands is destined to house the department of international relations and could be situated close to the border in order to further emphasise the desire of the student: to live in peace. Out of a concern for absolute transparency, the majority of the building is designed in glass on a steel structure.




3rd Price : Snail Bath
from Felipe Contreras (Santiago - Chile)
Universidad de Chile - Faculty of Architecture and Town and Country Planning

This public baths project, designed to be installed in a park, makes it possible to rediscover day to day life. In each unit, a “skin” forming a whole with the structure is the basic architectural element, capable of creating a flexible and temporary space formed by the bodily movement of the user during the bathing time. The vertical action of the glass sheets automatically closes when someone goes in and remains open when the bath is not in use.




Steel Award

1st Price : « The Helix »
from Rudolf Brandstötter (Purkersdorf - Austria)
Technische Universität Wien - Faculty of Architecture and Town and Country Planning

Surprising, simple, elegant, coiled up apparently effortlessly in space, the spiral of the Helix could become major structural element for spectacular constructions. In this precise case, it is used for a footbridge that crosses a river. The structure would be created in steel sheets because of the rigid structure produced by the coiling of these welded sheets. The results of the static and dynamic tests carried out to determine the reliability of the structure exceed expectations.


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2nd Price : « Geo City »
from Faraz Soleymani (Iran)

A very high building for offices and homes that would be designed in the form of the structure of the atom. The advantage of this type of structure: the destruction of some of the elements of the system does not affect the whole, contrary to other skyscrapers that cannot resist when some elements suffer significant damage (the 11 th of September remains engraved in all our memories). The entire structure is created by a repetitive design simplifying the manufacturing process and preserving the privative entity of each Geo sphere within the whole. The form is porous to reduce the force of the wind and alert the neighbours to any undesired shadow.




3rd Price : « Center of Modern Architecture »
from Kristof Michal (Brno - Slovakia)

Like a sculpture, the steel structure of this building is inspired by the experimental projects of Iakov Chernikhov, one of the great architects of the XXth century. The covering in Fluon ETFE (used incidentally for the construction of the Allianz-Arena football stadium in Munich ) gives it a soft and modulated light.







Brick Award

1st Price : « Exhibition Pavilion »
from Cristina Costea (Cluj Napoca - Romania)
Université de Cluj-Napoca - Faculty of Architecture and Town and Country Planning

Situated on a hypothetical site, close to a city and a forest, placed on sloping ground planted with trees, this pavilion of around 100 m² generates an interior space and an excellent relation with the outside world. Without constraints of time or environment, it is intended as a place to observe nature. Underlined by the geometrical appearance of the construction, the hill appears like an organic form.

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2nd Price : « Desert House »
from Fausto Sutera (Palerme - Italy)
Université de Palerme - Faculty of Architecture

This project for an individual home is essentially destined for arid zones and desert climates. Developed according to the concept of the Roman house, closed on the outside and opening onto an inside patio planted with a palm tree, this long, thin house is comprised of two levels for four persons. The self-supporting structure is comprised of the play of outside walls in yellow faced bricks and of brick partitions with a white coating.

The use of this unique material allows the calorific balance between day and night, accumulating the cool night air of the desert to prevent overheating during the day.





3rd Price : « The Brick »
from Diego Magri (Olgiate Comasco – Italy)
Politecnico de Milan - Faculty of Architecture

It is by spending time on site that the author of this project interpreted his own vision of brick: an impenetrable case capable of containing a range of elements set out in a precise order. Placed ideally in a green setting and magnified to hundred times the size of a normal brick, this block represents a museum where the timber presentation cells are linked to the methodology of the brick construction. Certain represent two superposed bricks, others half a brick or an upright brick and so on and so on.









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 Agenda

- GERMANY -

  • Glashaus 02_ bogevischs stadt (29/01 - 09/03/2007) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
    "bogevischs buero" from Munich present their works
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  • Architektur wie sie im Buche steht. Fiktive Bauten und Städte in der Literatur (> 11/03/2007) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    Ever since antiquity, buildings and cities that exist in reality have been reflected in poetry and novels. This theme has now been taken up by the exhibition, with a particular focus on fictional or imaginary architecture in literature. Buildings and cities described by writers and poets become visible with the help of models, plans, drawings, book illustrations, film clips etc.
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  • Frischelle_06: Alexander Schellow (17/02 - 01/04/2007) - Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum
    When does the ink spots begin to take on meaning? How is reality reconstructed as memory? The Berlin artist Alexander Schellow uses Indian ink and fiber pencil drawings to compile recollective protocols dot by dot.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Asmara. Africa's Secret Modernist City (06/02 - 15/04/2007) - Francfort/Main
    DAM Asmara is an Africa's secret modernist city. Having survived the troubles of the Second World War, 40 years of Ethiopian occupation, and a thirty-year war of liberation almost unscathed, the city today is home to the largest ensemble of modernist architecture anywhere in the world. The exhibition wants to contribute to the debate about the evaluation of classical modernism, the globalization of modern architecture, its historic value, and also about effects in terms of urban planning.
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  • The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit? Programmatic Exhibitions on Domestic Living in the 20th Century (10/02 - 28/05/2007) - Weil am Rhein
    Vitra Design Museum
    From Art Nouveau to Droog design, from the stainless-steel-and-glass ambience of New Objectivity to 1980s' German punk, from Scandinavian-style interiors to the domestic landscapes of Pop Art: "The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit?" portrays the evolution of living concepts in the twentieth century with a survey of 16 major exhibitions from 1901 to the present.
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  • ISH (06 - 10/03/2007) - Francfort/Main
    International Trade Fair for Building and Energy Technology, The Bathroom Experience
    --- Go to the site ---

  • AIRCONTEC (06 - 10/03/2007) - Francfort/Main
    Trade-Fair brand for the air-conditioning industry
    --- Go to the site ---

  • CeBIT (15 - 21/03/2007) - Hannover
    World Business Center Office - Information - Telecommunications
    --- Go to the site ---

  • FARBE AUSSBAU & FASSADE (18 - 21/04/2007) - Cologne
    International Fair for Paint, Finishing & Facade
    --- Go to the site ---

- AUSTRIA -

  • Jan Gezelius "Haus und Landschaft" (07 - 30/03/2007) - Graz
    Haus der Architektur
    Exhibition
    --- Go to the site ---

  • "Liquid Logic. The Height of Knowledge and the Speed of Thought" (> 01/04/2007) - Vienna
    MAK
    The exhibition provides an insight into the current work of Elke Krystufek. Subjects that the artist has concerned herself with for years are put in a new perspective of significance against the background of her exploration of the institutional self-definition of the museum; what is showing here is a complex drawing work on various different sources.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky (08/03 - 28/05/2007) - Vienna
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Old Hall
    Bernard Rudofsky was neither an architect nor a theorist in the usual sense. At the start of his career he completed a number of houses in Italy and Brazil, where he employed the formal language of the Modernists even though his writings appear to indicate he rejected their teachings. This exhibition, the first on Bernard Rudofsky in the world, has not been conceived as a classical retrospective. The aim is to make the cosmopolitan Rudofsky's complex architectural concept and concept of how to live accessible to a broad public, and to address his relevance for today.
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  • WOHNEN & INTERIOR (17 - 25/03/2007) - Vienna
    Austria's largest trade fair for interiors, lifestyle and accessories
    Lecture
    --- Go to the site ---

- BELGIUM -

  • La Cuisine, mode de vie - Un siècle d'évolution
    (> 25/03/2007) - Brussels
    CIVA
    Original drawings, photographies, objects and live reconstitutions illustrate a century of kitchen environment.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • AE2005 - VIIIe Biennale d'architecture espagnole / (RE)nouveaux plaisirs d'architecture 2 (02/02 - 08/04/2007) - Brussels
    Espace Architecture La Cambre
    Two exhibitions take place showing a contemporary good architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Marimekko: Stoffen, Mode, Architectuur (> 9/04/2007) - Ghent
    Design Museum
    Founded in 1951 by the visionary Armi Ratia (1913-1979), Marimekko is Finland's famous textile company. His design is still actual today.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • INOUT - Ici et Maintenant (18/03 - 13/05/2007) - Hornu
    Grand-Hornu Images
    The exhibition is dedicated to the work of two young designers coming from the Lausanne « Ecole Cantonale d'Art » concerning urban furniture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • BATIBOUW (22/02 - 04/03/2007) - Brussels
    International Building Trade Renovation and Decoration Exhibition
    --- Go to the site ---

  • SFEER (17 - 25/03/2007) - Ghent
    Flanders Expo
    Event for interior decoration, garden and pool
    --- Go to the site ---

  • BOIS & HABITAT (23 - 26/03/2007) - Namur
    Namur Expo
    Wood buildings and alternative energies exhibition
    --- Go to the site ---

- DENMARK -

  • Fascination of Transportation (> 18/03/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Design Center
    Experience the eight cars that represent the last 50 years' best international car design, when fascination of the car's design, shape and aesthetics is in focus.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Wilderness (16/02/2007 - 08/04/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Museum Art & Design
    Garment and textile designer Laura Barüel takes her cue from the relation between modern man and nature and is inspired by the physical and geographical place - nature, landscape, climate, light and colours. Based on an interest in the Nordic, the idea is to further explore and visualise the relations between man, garment and place.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Cindy Sherman-30 years of staged photography (16/02/2007 - 20/05/2007) - Humlebæk
    Louisiana Museum
    Self-dramatization is a key concept in the American artist Cindy Sherman's production. She uses herself as model and photographs herself in changing disguises. By manipulating her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, she appears in different forms and figures that range from the amusing and humorous to the provocative and violent. The exhibition has been organized by the Jeu de paume, Paris, and co-produced with the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Marimekko - the story of a Nordic brand (02/03/2007 - 28/05/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Museum Art & Design
    Marimekko's colourful textiles for furniture and fashion design has since 1951 been known all over the world and contributed to the 1950s - 1960s revolution of modern printed textiles and fashion design.The exhibition presents the development of more than 50 years and shows designs from the entire period focusing on the renewed innovation of the brand.
    --- Go to the site ---

- SPAIN -

  • Barcelona, 1978-1997... Manolo Laguillo (02/03 - 06/05/2007) - Barcelone
    Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
    This exhibition, produced by MACBA, will explore a large part of the work of Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953), specifically the part that concentrates on representation of Barcelona. And it will do so from the hypothesis of the close relation between his work and the construction of an image of the city through photography in the crucial decade of the eighties.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Palazuelo: proceso de trabajo (13/03 - 10/06/2007) - Bilbao
    Museum Guggenheim
    Pablo Palazuelo (1915) is one of the key figures of Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century, although unfortunately, he has still not gained the international recognition that his work so richly deserves. This retrospective exhibition, organized by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and coproduced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will emphasize the least-known aspects of the work of this artist, incorporating many pieces that have not been shown to the public before. With more than 300 works, Palazuelo: Working Process includes a broad selection of drawings, gouaches, paintings, and sculptures.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • CLIMATIZACION (28/02 - 02/03/2007) - Madrid
    Heating Installations, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Pipes, Valves, Ventilation
    --- Go to the site ---

- FINLAND -
  • Hajj - On the Pilgrimage (10/01 - 04/03/2007) - Jyväskylä
    Alvar Aalto Museum
    The exhibition tells the story of Ali Said, a self-taught folk artist, and his son Galer Ali Said and all the other hajj painters in Upper Egypt. Their story was documented by the writer Göran Schildt, who visited the village of El Ballas on his sailing ship the Daphne in 1954. The photographer Vidar Lindqvist, who has taken a special interest in Egyptian culture, has added some more recent observations and images to Schildt´s fifty-year old documents.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Artic Cities: Kiruna, Oulu, Tromsø (07/02 - 08/04/2007) - Helsinki
    Museum of Finnish Architecture
    Kiruna is a city of mining and space research and also a tourist attraction. It is currently facing a momentous city planning issue: the relocation of the centre, as mining will extend to beneath the present centre. Oulu is a hub of high-technology industries and a university town. Its visions are directed towards excellent know-how and the future of the city as a centre of culture and innovation. Tromsø focuses on the research of climatic and energy safety as well as sustainable development.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Formula 1™ - The Great Design Race (02/02 - 22/04/2007) - Helsinki
    Design Museum
    Organisée par le Design Museum (London), l'exposition retrace l'histoire du design dans la formule 1 depuis 1950.
    --- Go to the site ---

- FRANCE -

  • "La ville dense" (> 15/03/2007) - Paris
    Chai de Bercy
    Art, architecture and urbanism on the thema Evoluting City autour du thème de la ville en évolution.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • "Leibar & Seigneurin" (> 18/03/2007) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    The architects Xavier Leibar et Jean-Marie Seigneurin though a collection of 50 photographies made by Martin&Zentol.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Le nuage Magellan (10/01 - 10/04/2007) - Paris
    Centre Pompidou
    This exhibition takes an inquiring look at contemporary perceptions of modernism - from dethroned utopias to possibilities for the future - bringing together the projects of 8 contemporary artists, Michael Hakimi, Oskar Hansen, David Maljkovic, Paulina Oÿowska, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • DPA Dominique Perrault architecte (08/02 - 29/04/2007) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

- GREAT BRITAIN -

  • Scene (23/03 - 05/04/2007) - Manchester
    CUBE
    An exhibition of work by Manchester Architects as submitted for the Manchester Society of Architecture Design Awards 2007. This exhibition will see Manchester's most distinguished architects compete for the society's prestigious Design Awards.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • The Timeless Vision : Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban (22/02 - 27/05/2007) - London
    The Barbican Gallery
    This fascinating exhibition which explores the themes linking these two influential architects who, despite spanning a generational and geographical divide, share a visionary approach to architecture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Gilbert & George (15/02 - 07/05/2007) - London
    Tate Modern
    Gilbert & George have created art together since meeting at St Martin's School of Art in 1967. Their impact on the international art world was immediate, radical and subversive with the declaration that sculpture need not be confined to the production of three-dimensional objects and that their own lives could be classed as 'living sculptures'.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Glasgow Greenhouse (17/02 - 07/05/2007) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse Level 1 Review Gallery
    Leading Scottish practice, Chris Stewart Architects, commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, are leading a project to create a sustainable business centre for new start and young companies in Glasgow's East-end.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Thinking Inside the Box (24/02 - 07/05/2007) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse Level 2 Young Designers Gallery
    Interiors in the 21st Century: New Visions, New Horizons & New Challenges
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Airworld - Design and Architecture for Air Travel (12/04 - 27/05/2007) - Glasgow
    Tramway
    The exhibition celebrates the aesthetic of the golden age of air travel, a time when flying still retained something of the attraction of the unusual. The exhibition also presents some convincing and visionary projects of today.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • On the Threshold: The Changing Face of Housing
    (> 27/05/2007) - London
    Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
    From the legacies of iconic schemes to experimental contemporary designs and future ideas, this exhibition looks at and under the residential skin.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Luigi Colani. Translating Nature (03/03 - 17/06/2007) - London
    Design Museum
    Luigi Colani is one of the great mavericks of 20th Century design. Born in Berlin in 1928, with an art school training supplemented by studies in aerodynamics, he began his career working in the car industry. The king of customisers, Colani developed his own baroque idiom of boldly sculptured forms that spilled from cars to aircraft, and then into furniture and industrial objects. From 1982 he began to work in Japan, and his swooping sculpted forms transformed among other products, cameras for Canon, and headphones for Sony.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Ettore Sottsass. A Life in Design (29/03 - 10/06/2007) - London
    Design Museum
    Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980's design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. To mark Ettore Sottsass' 90th birthday we are exhibiting his most iconic designs drawn from six decades of his on-going career.
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  • INFOSECURITY EUROPE (24 - 26/04/2007) - London
    Europe's most comprehensive convergence of information security professionals
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- GREECE -
  • The Hungry Box (01/02 - 18/03/2007) - Athens
    Benaki Museum
    The work of the Dutch architects MVRDV .
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- ITALY -

  • Hans Hartung (> 11/03/2007) - Milan
    Triennale Bovisa
    A selection of more than 200 paintings by the artist made from 1922 in Dresden to 1989 (year of death) in Antibes.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • The New Italian Design (> 25/04/2007) - Milan
    Triennale
    A map of new Italian design has emerged, one which is not only limited to furniture design, but also encompasses all the new forms of the 21st century: graphic, fashion, textile, copywriting, jewellery and multimedia design.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Jean Prouvé - The Poetics of the Technical Object (16/02 - 15/04/2007) - Mantova
    Palazzo Té
    Today, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) is prized as one of the most innovative architectural and furniture draftsman of the 20th century. Thanks to his technical knowledge of production, he consistently developed detachable, light constructions - from small barracks to large halls, multifunctional facade systems as well as movable or dismountable, extremely solid furniture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • SAIEDUE (13 - 17/03/2007) - Bologne
    International exhibitions on interior architecture, building renewal technologies and finishing
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- LUXEMBOURG -

  • Michel Majerus (09/12/2006 - 07/05/2007) - Luxembourg
    MUDAM
    Grande rétrospective du peintre Majerus marquant l'inauguration de «Luxembourg et Grande Région, Capitale européenne de la culture 2007».
    --- Go to the site ---

- NORWAY -

  • Håkki™ (01/03 - 29/04/2007) - Oslo
    Norsk Design - Architecture Center
    Håkki™ is an art project that merges with business. Its main focus is the survival of a community identity in a small town of Ljungaverk in northern Sweden that has suffered some negative consequences of an increasingly globalized world. The project consists of two shop outlets in cities in Norway that sell t-shirts with motifs that attempt to express the identity of the small town.
    --- Go to the site ---

- NETHERLANDS -

  • Groene Vingers (03/02 - 21/03/2007) - Amsterdam
    ARCAM
    The focus of this exhibition will be the green wedges. Amsterdam is organized by means of a finger plan in which red zones are pierced by green wedges. The wedges have various functions, but by and large their function is to bring recreation in green space closer to the city dweller. In the exhibition, the wedges are examined individually using themes such as the history of the areas, boundaries, city planning, infrastructure and environment. In addition, attention will be given to the future of the wedges.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Hertzberger's Amsterdam (13/04 - 02/06/2007) - Amsterdam
    ARCAM
    The exhibition charts Hertzberger's career, from the early student projects in the mid-fifties to future schemes. The maquettes of all the designs that Herman Hertzberger has made for Amsterdam have been brought together for the exhibition.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Power. Producing the Contemporary City (24/05 - 02/06/2007) - Rotterdam
    Kunsthal
    International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
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  • Steiner & Lenzlinger. Four Vegetative Sleeping Rooms (> 28/10/2007) - Rotterdam
    Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
    The Swiss artists Steiner & Lenzlinger are interested in artificial gardens, natural growth processes and all cross-overs between nature and culture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • 'Architectuur van de nacht - Schitterende gebouwen'
    (> 06/05/2007) - Rotterdam
    Nederlands Architectuurinstituut
    Cities today bathe in light. Artificial light has brought about a major change in the way we experience the city: the night has come to life. The exhibition "Architecture of the Night - Luminous Buildings" shows how over the last hundred years the use of artificial light has changed the way we design and build as well as how we experience the built-up environment at night.
    --- Go to the site ---

- POLAND -

  • ECODOM (20 - 22/04/2007) - Katowice
    International Exhibition For Energy Saving And Thermal Meassuring
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- PORTUGAL -

  • Gonçalo Byrne - Geografias Vivas (24/11 - 25/02/2007) - Lisbonne
    Centro Cultural de Belém
    Exposition basée sur la participation de Gonçalo Byrne à la Vie Biennale d'Architecture de São Paulo.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • EXPOCLIMA (17 - 20/04/2007) - Lisbon
    International Air Conditioning, Ventilation, Industrial Refrigeration, Automation and Energy Control Exhibition
    --- Go to the site ---

- CZECH REPUBLIC -

  • SHK BRNO (17 - 21/04/200