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Porsche Museum, Delugan Meissl Architekten, rendering - 3D Konzept, Berlin

Architecture for the public

A lawyer would define a public building as one that is commissioned by a local authority or other legal body in public law and that houses an authoritative administration. From the architect’s viewpoint other questions arise. How is our notion and the reality of “public” presently changing? How can architecture, as one of the important forms in which the notion of “public” is made visible, react to such changes?

architecture / fashion / design | Austria | by Wolfgang Pauser | 2008-10
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blue house /2000 / acrylic - Edi Hila

Petrified Psychograms

Anyone who has ever travelled in the Balkans, and in particular in Albania, is familiar with the following typical picture of the landscape: the unfinished carcasses and windowless shells of buildings lying in the open fields as if they had fallen from the sky, without any relation to the topography. Anonymous architecture that seems to proclaim, almost defiantly, a new beginning after the end of the country’s Communist dictatorship.

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Everything under a single Roof

András Pálffy is an architect, a professor at Vienna University of Technology, and has also been President of the Secession since December 2007. His architecture practice, Jabornegg & Pálffy, which achieved recognition with their buildings for the Generali Foundation and at Judenplatz in Vienna, will shortly complete their most recent project: the headquarters of the Slovenská sporiteľňa (Erste Group) in Bratislava. For Pálffy this also means an encounter with his own family history.

architecture / fashion / design | Bratislava | by Manuela Hötzl | 2008-10
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Experiences like at Home

Around 70 per cent of the project developments by the real estate financial service provider Immorent are located in Eastern Europe. In an interview with Report, Immorent’s managing director Gerald Antonitsch tells about the current trends in the Eastern European property market and about methods of finding the appropriate designers, whether regional or international.

architecture / fashion / design | Austria, Crossborder | by Franziska Leeb | 2008-10
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Architecture with national-romantic undertones

From the “limestone functionalism” of the 1930s to Estonian post-modernism in Estonia, like in hardly any other European country, the architecture utopias of the past century are connected with the idea of the Estonian nation.

architecture / fashion / design | Estonia | by Georg Schöllhammer | 2008-10
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Bilbao in Polish

For over fifty years no new museums have been designed in Poland. This summer, however, a centre for contemporary art opened in Toruń. New exhibition buildings for Cracow, Łódź and Warsaw are at the design stage. However the boom in museum buildings raises questions in Poland that are not confined to architecture but also relate to the buildings’ contents.

architecture / fashion / design | Poland | by Berenika Partum | 2008-10
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Liberec: a town below the Clouds

The town of Liberec in northern Bohemia is a special place. When you approach it on the motorway from Prague at first the outline of a mountain ridge appears with the silver tower of a television mast and a hotel on the hill called Ještěd, which belongs to the town. In the car you can then reckon for an hour what the weather is like down on the streets.

architecture / fashion / design | Czech Republic | by Jaroslav Rudiš | 2008-10
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Between Prishtina and Graz – A European Encounter

Visar Geci, born in Prishtina, is a student of architecture in Graz (since 1997 he has also been an Austrian citizen), a barkeeper with his own television show, and the owner of a fitness studio – furthermore, Geci describes himself as a Kosovar patriot who would do anything for the development of Kosovo. Kai Vöckler describes for “Report” his encounter with the convinced European, who has discovered an (unusual) way of living between Graz and Prishtina.

architecture / fashion / design | Graz, Crossborder | by Kai Vöckler | 2008-10
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Calendar
Exhibition: Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova
film / photography | Berlin | 12 December 2008 - 15 February 2009
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Issue25_Kontakt Collection_exhibit nyc - Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group

New Exhibition of the Kontakt Collection at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

“Cutting Realities. Gender Strategies in Art” - art from Central and Eastern Europe

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Peter Kogler, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Computeranimation /Projektion, 2000 - Markus Tretter

Exhibition “Peter Kogler 79–08”

Since the early 1980s Peter Kogler, in a departure from what was the new painting of the time, has used media and computer technology as the basis for his work.

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