Paranapiacaba, vila de engenheiros e funcionários da São Paulo Railway, foi ponto estratégico na Serra do Mar para o funcionamento e construção da estrada de ferro Santos-Jundiaí, que levava passageiros do porto para o capital Paulista e café do interior para o porto. Em 1982 o sistema funicular – puxando os vagões sobre planos inclinados, [...]
Competition entry by Merten Nefs for Southpoint, from Ruin to Rejuvenation (January 2006, project Jury selected for exhibition at AIA New York). The project foresaw re-use of the abandoned hospital and urban wasteland of Roosevelt Island, located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. Two wings of the ruin – currently without floors and [...]
Foi publicado no Vitruvius um resumo das propostas do Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa 2007 (tema: Vazios Urbanos). www.vitruvius.com.br/noticia/.. Mais informações e catálogo: http://trienaldelisboa.sapo.pt
Abandoned buildings of NDSM Shipyards in Amsterdam North were occupied in the 1990´s by groups of artists who later organized themselves under the name Kinetisch Noord. In 2001 the group gained access to the NDSM shed (20.000 m2), the Docklands shed (6.000 m2) and two concrete shipbuilding ramps, to develop the whole site (84.000 m2) [...]
Former Bus Depot of the Berlin transport company – built in 1927 by architect Franz Ahrens, at that time with 7.000 square meters the largest shed in Europe – was confiscated by the nazis during the war, used as refugee camp afterwards and became isolated in the Wall zone from 1961. In 1995 organisation ART [...]
