O prédio onde estudei 6 anos, a faculdade de arquitetura da TU Delft, pegou fogo e desmoronou esta semana. Foi preciso apenas um cano vazando água em cima de uma cafeteira. Perdeu-se muito trabalho de estudantes, pesquisas e acervos importantes de livros e obras de arte, além do prédio modernista de Van den Broek en [...]
Last Friday the new prestigious hanging bridge at the end of Avenida Roberto Marinho (named after the media mogul, founder of Globo) was inaugurated. The R$260 milion (EUR 100 milion) project is supposed to be the new “postcard” of São Paulo and solve part of the transit problems in the Berrini/WTC area. In popular language [...]
“Apesar de ter mudado a face da zona oriental de Lisboa, o arquitecto Manuel Salgado reconhece que, dez anos depois, a área da Expo 98 continua a ser um gueto. Arquitectos e urbanistas apontam o dedo à falta de ligações às zonas envolventes.” Zona da Expo-98 continua a ser um “gueto”, artigo por Alexandre Costa [...]
Network of artists and architects, developing theoretic projects in Europe with an unusual focus on the Balkans, the Black Sea region and Russia. www.networkedcultures.org “Networked Cultures investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the project collaborates with art, [...]
The grid contemplates the improvement of informal settlements without removing the inhabitants, by constructing an infrastructural grid with suspended building lots. The grid recycles water and includes space for food production and public activities. An integrated pig farm, besides producing pork meat, supplies organic material for a biogas electricity plant as a byproduct. The habitiation [...]
