Little Improvements

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October 11, 2023/Posted by: admin

Street Delivery. Shared Spaces

THE STEP IS THE LOVING UNIT OF THE CITY to walk - to stroll - to lose oneself Public life should always take place in the street, the place where everything happens.(...) the street (is) a...

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October 5, 2023/Posted by: admin

Amzei. Then & Now

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October 5, 2023/Posted by: admin

RDW 2023. Connections

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January 26, 2023/Posted by: admin

DIPLOMA 2022

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We are Play. Photos: Roald Aron, The Institute, Baza. Deschidem...

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July 7, 2022/Posted by: admin

Bucharest. The Minor Structure vol2

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May 23, 2022/Posted by: admin

RDW 10. forward

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Keep it dirty, Don't go clean, As we perpetually construct the city Let's not be pristine. Keep in mind that design also means drawing lines of separation! And in our ambition to create, We should be more careful what we...

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May 23, 2022/Posted by: admin

Open Streets. Report 2021

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The temporary pedestrianization of Bucharest's central streets - what were its effects on the city and its dwellers? The Open Streets project was initiated by Asociația ARCEN in the spring of 2020, following the release from COVID-19...

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August 31, 2021/Posted by: admin

parklet

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Parklets are a rather recent invetion, originated in North America. They were born out of a very simple but serious question: could a parking spot serve as anything else? One parking spot reserves 12.5 sqm of...

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May 29, 2021/Posted by: admin

Bucharest. The Minor Structure vol1

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It is unsustainable for Bucharest to remain, in the long run, a city geared towards motor vehicle traffic. This statement opens the study we have undertaken since 2020, with the help and guidance of...

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November 1, 2020/Posted by: admin

Reclaiming the River – competition

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Along, To and Across: A vision for a river that binds Architectural competition, 2nd prize The segment of the River Dâmbovița between Mărășești passage and Mihai Bravu bridge will become an attractive public space where local...

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June 14, 2020/Posted by: admin

Urban Giraffe – tactical urbanism

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The Urban Giraffe names a series of tactical urbanism interventions we started in Bucharest, set to imperfectly solve the problems that the city offers each day. Just like a clumsy giraffe, that we got...

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May 11, 2020/Posted by: admin

City as common good. guidelines for urban life post COVID

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Our soft manifesto for city life guidelines post-covid is set as a card game allowing discussions and negociations for all city dwellers around their needs, priorities and possible solutions for a better, healthier, safer...

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March 12, 2020/Posted by: admin

Bucharest in Details – ongoing research and proposals

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A very personal project to all members of our team, this research started as a natural response to our everyday urban experience, walking in Bucharest. Whether or not walking with our kids, carrying bags, or...

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March 11, 2020/Posted by: admin

Guided tour through the Creative Quarter

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We celebratet the Creative Quarter Design Festival on Sunday, May 19th 2019, with a guided tour: the meet-up was in front of Energiea. We briefly stopped along the way, connecting active dots on the Creative...

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March 11, 2020/Posted by: admin

Little Improvements – A Stair for Kretzulescu

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Little Improvements – A Stair for Kretzulescu This project is a pilot for introducing an element that articulates three public spaces used by different social and age categories: the Kretzulescu Galleries, the Kretzulescu Church and...

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March 11, 2020/Posted by: admin

National Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewry and the Holocaust

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Launched as an international architectural competition in October 2018, we submitted our joint proposal toghether with CUMULUS and PZP architecture offices. We benefited from art historian and BAZA member Adrian Buga's extensive cultural and artistic expertise. In the...

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May 2, 2018/Posted by: admin

UPGRADE. V for Vintage 20

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A new space opened in central Bucharest, in the spring of 2018: three ground-floors, set along three different streets and united by an inner garden. Their concrete grey, unfinished state offered the contrasting grounds...

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March 27, 2018/Posted by: admin

Building conversion, Hotel Premium Wellness Râmnicu Vâlcea

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The project was developed during 2016-2017: Spiru Haret University wanted its headquarters in Râmnicu Vâlcea, a hilly balneal resort in central Romania, transformed into a wellness hotel and spa. We provided the measurement surveys and...

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March 18, 2018/Posted by: admin

ZĂPFEST

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In early spring, new snows took the city by storm and surprise. As schools closed downs we decided to go full snowfest and call for some sincere snowball fights and a snowpeople contest. Long story...

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March 18, 2018/Posted by: admin

THE CHANGE HUB – an informal classroom

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Following the Sustainabili...really? workshop, some of the attending pupils contacted us for advice on setting up their own informal classroom, within their college. The director of Spiru Haret National College had granted them permission...

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May 9, 2017/Posted by: admin

TRANSFORMERS @ Romanian Design Week 2017

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30 outfits. 10 creators. 2 countries. 2 schools. UNArte vs artEZ. We turned this fashion face off in a reverted experiment. The visitors take on the catwalk and strut underneath the warm neon lighting. While...

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February 17, 2017/Posted by: admin

The State Jewish Theatre

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Setting a life's story in symbols, and bringing mythology closer through drawings, the artist Jana Gertler and the curator Adrian Buga transformed the foyer of the theatre in a kaleidoscope of colours and light....

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February 17, 2017/Posted by: admin

ARTMARK GALLERIES

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The ground-floor, four street windows and one entrance of Cesianu Racovita Palace are returned to interacting with pedestrian public space. Setting the formerly unused space with art exhibitions of collections up for sale, the...

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February 16, 2017/Posted by: admin

SinCronic

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SinCronic was set up as a double exercise, on one hand as a dialogue between ceramic artists and sculptors, and on the other as a space-changing exhibition. The first part took place during the...

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February 13, 2017/Posted by: admin

Art Safari 2016

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Setting up the Art Safari 2016 exhibition space is the project that launched us, and that we invested in as our manifesto: bringing back to public life the unused spaces of central Bucharest, through...

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