The discussion continues on whether Amsterdam can realize urban growth within existing urban areas or whether the city needs the proposed big-scale expansion locations at the artifical island of IJburg and near the 1970′s satellite-town Almere. Architects Tom Bergevoet and Maarten van Tuijl, of Temp Architecture, did a basic survey using Google Earth and found [...]
Brazil has a new ambitious architecture magazine: Monolito, edited by Fernando Serapião. The first issue of the magazine focuses on the work of Angelo Bucci and was launched in Rio de Janeiro in February 2011. This month, the second issue is launched in São Paulo. It shows the work of Andrade Morettin associated architects, where [...]
Very impressive artwork in concrete from the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia, published on Crack Two. (photographs of 25 abandoned monuments) “These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place (like Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjača), or where concentration camps stood [...]
This month the urban plan for Nova Luz was presented. The plan encompasses the transformation of a large area (45 urban blocks, occupying 50 ha) close to the Luz railway station in central São Paulo. In the last decade, preparations for this plan have been made by the Municipality, including the construction of concert hall [...]
November 2010 Merten Nefs visited Shenzhen and Hong Kong, in the Chinese Pearl River Delta. On behalf of the Deltametropolis Association he presented the SprintCity project at an international conference in Shenzhen and spoke to several professionals in Hong Kong to learn about their strategies for development of public transport nodes and the surrounding areas. [...]
