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igloo habitat & arhitectura no. 122 | feb 2012
  • national agenda: Papiota | C.A.D. Apartment | Interview with Rariţa Zbranca
  • international agenda: Origami in Paris
  • igloo student: Inspired 2011 | DSA exhibition at École Chaillot
  • architecture: CN House | The story of the "technological tree" - Taiwan Tower by DSBA. Interview with Dorin Ştefan
  • interior design: Makeover | The Book Arena
  • heritage: Vecchio Cafe | Măgureni
  • traditions: Tigve de animale şi spaţii nebănuite
  • possible architectures: Telepolis
  • public space: Gubei Promenade
  • dossier: high-rises: Aqua Tower, Chicago | The Met, Singapore | Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokio
  • design: Maison et Objet | IMM Cologne | Design Capitals. Antwerp
  • oogli: Snow White and the seven emergents | Ciprian Mureşan. „Don't give any verdicts” | Interview with Carla Szabo | Carnage
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Articles:

architecture | CN House

This unifamily house is built in Bucharest, on a 350sqm lot deriving from a recent partition as a consequence of the retrocession of the terrain of a park. Sensitive to the implications of cutting down trees on the urban atmosphere and the local micro-climate, the architect and beneficiary agreed to ...

interior design | Makeover

A makeover is a complete image change, of a person, or, seeing that this is an article that will feature in igloo magazine, of a space or home. In general, it isn’t all that complicated to give an old and dusty place a bright and shiny new finish, but it ...

heritage | Vecchio Cafe

At the crossroad of Şepcari and Covaci Streets, in the immediate vicinity of the Old Court lies a building that, urban tradition has it, would be the oldest cafe in Little Paris. Although its original function is debatable, along with the declared age of the construction, what is certain is ...

possible architectures | Telepolis

Conceived as an opposition between the classical forms of social organization, still tributary to the notions of territoriality, coexistence and proximity, and the new city, crossed by distant relations, telepolis represents the deterritorialized city par excellence, established on the interconnected structures of the networks of individuals. Yet there are two ...

public space | Gubei Promenade

About 700 meters long and 60 wide, the promenade created in the heart of a bustling district in Shanghai offers a much needed break from China’s largest, fast-paced metropolis. The project was made possible by an unusual decision of the City hall to convert a portion of a vehicular street ...

dossier: high-rises | Aqua Tower, Chicago

Inspired by Great Lakes rock formations eroded by the elements, the sculptural implant of Aqua Tower marks a historical moment in the Chicago skyline, so far dominated by smooth prisms of modernist persuasion. Blending a variety of uses - apartments, condominiums, hotel, parking, restaurants and offices - the 262 meter ...

dossier: high-rises | The Met, Singapore

Perhaps the most innovative project by WOHA so far, definitely the one to receive the most awards, the Met, a residential complex of 370 luxury apartments situated in the busy Sathorn neighborhood in Bangkok proposes a radical model – a naturally ventilated tower, perforated in order to create views of ...

dossier: high-rises | Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokio

The 50 storey volume of Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is wrapped in a thick, forceful network of triangulations that enforce the metaphor of the cocoon. Indeed this protective shape inspires the students of the three colleges reunited on the inside to be creative, to grow and to accept change. Elliptic ...