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Domkyrkoforum

The site of the new Cathedral Forum is central Lund, directly south of the cathedral. On the site there are two historical buildings to be kept. The rebuilding project is 883 sqm. The new...

Casa della Giovane

The Casa della Giovane or home for young women, the recent project in Genoa by Franz Prati and Una2, is an example of a building that is part of the tissue of the compact...

Lagere School Sint-Gillis

Architecture is more than simply producing images, spaces and thinking of technical solutions. It is a far more complex process in which one looks for a synthesis on various levels of scale, from the town...

Tetris

The commission for this social housing project came from SIEMP, a public enterprise whose surgical, case-by-case approach responds to the city’s revised urban renewal strategy. Contrary to the 1980s-90s policy of razing entire blocks, today...

Town Hall Hotel

photo by Sue Barr Town Hall Hotel is a new 98-room luxury hotel, restaurant and bar housed in the old Bethnal Green Town Hall, at the heart of London’s burgeoning East End. Comprising the provision...

Consolidated city and design in action

The identity of the public space in our cities is, from many points of view, hard to define and in continuous evolution. On the one side it is manifesting clear signs of fragility and...

Informal Community

If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of poverty and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell’Arsenale at the last Venice Biennial...

slum history: timeline

The expression slum is being used far too indiscriminately today. One speaks of informal settlements in more or less scientific terms, referring to different realities. However, the facility with which the term is pronounced fails...

Re-thinking the informal city

Today in most cities around the world there exist several forms of urbanism that coexists on the same space. These varied concepts of urbanism (whether Everyday Urbanism, New Urbanism, Post-Urbanism or the several forms...

Gran Horizonte: Taking a Walk in the Urban Planet

“The city is not prepared for the people, and the people are not prepared for the city” – the Perez family; Caracas, Venezuela In the last two years we have become urban explorers, wanderers of the...

Women are heroes

Women – The Project Worldwide Always faithful to his 28mm lens, which gets close to the model in a way that makes it as expressive as possible, JR takes his photographs in post-conflict and difficult...

Community School

The building of a public school in the village of Fansirà Corò is part of a public infrastructure program promoted by AFRICABOUGOU, an Italian non-profit organization that furthers education initiatives in the rural community...