"Unpredictable, as a water flow, our world became one with multiple inputs and is constantly changing, accordingly with the data flux", Massimiliano Fuksas considered. A motto for a name strongly connected to "less aesthetics, more ethics" and to projects that are generally regarding the public spaces and urban remodelling, a name that became a theoretical and conceptual reference of contemporary architecture.
The most important aspect for most of the projects signed by the Italian architect would be the continuous transformation: of the cityscape evolution, of the hierarchy and urban planning disappearance in favour of new structures generated by a pool of fluctuating data.
Proiecte: Massimiliano Fuksas Studio
Text: Ioana Paunescu
Foto: Giuseppe Blengini, Maurizio Marcato

On Stirbei Voda Street, in a Bucharest area that surprises by its architectural diversity, a new building appeared. With a new look but an old structure. Because, while the authorities seem to endlessly postpone the restoration of some certain values of the Bucharest architecture, private initiatives succeed in offering to the old buildings a new existence perfectly integrated in the controversial discourse of the contemporary city.
The decision of Litexco company to establish an office for itself in Bucharest (given the fact that Litexco is known for acquiring unique buildings with architectural or historical value, situated in the most dynamic and representative economical areas of the cities it’s present in), brought Alexandru Beldiman, together with his BBM Grup tean, face to face with a difficult and complex project: rearranging the house of architect Toma Dobrescu, built at the end of 19th century.
Proiect: arh. Alexandru Beldiman, arh. Doina Butica, arh. Moise Mathe, arh. Dan Butica, arh. Octav Floarea
Text: Viorica Buica
Foto: Serban Bonciocat

The house situated at 538 de km from Bucharest, on a private street, the only one from, of a single-family dwelling complex, designed by the same architect. As the architect/architecture/beneficiary equation includes quite a lot of accountancy, commercial success that is, projects are mostly built in accordance with the "new demands" of living in a villa. Among those, a house sneaked in, house which, as the beneficiary puts it, "does not draw attention, is not very liked" by the people coming to visit the street. It is true that it lacks the moiré roof, metallic tiles, brick glass walls, fragmented and releasing volumes, strong colours, small windows, closed garage, multiple rooms. It is rather a construction that doesn’t reveal the complexity looked for nowadays, but the simplicity, cleanliness of design and volume.
The plot of land it is built on suits the house dimensioning, and what was not built was seen as a garden that only after many years will be able to keep the interior, once the trees will have grown, away from the neighbour’s eyes. Ground floor plus one level, the T-shaped, straight-lined which, in the two perpendicular volumes, develops the house functions: the living, the kitchen and the toilet at the ground floor, the saloon, two bedrooms and bathroom upstairs.
Proiect: arh. Constantin Ciocan
Text: Luiza Zamora
Foto: Serban Bonciocat

As in Milano the bottom line is that everything has to do with fashion, The Gray hotel, hidden behind an Art Nouveau façade, between the Duomo and La Scalla, in the vicinity of the famous "fashion triangle", was made by the architect-designer Guido Ciompi, known for his collaborations with Gucci. The five-level building that, a while ago, used to host private apartments and offices, took on a total different identity, inviting somehow, from a new, not at all architectural perspective, to a meditate on the subject of appearance and essence.
Proiect: Guido Ciompi
Text: Luiza Zamora
Foto: www.sinahotels.it

Igloo showed constant preoccupation regarding the national patrimony, even establishing a special column where less hyped architectural values were presented. In the numerous travels throughout the country, we could observe, with disappointment, that their state of preservation leaves a lot to be desired.
Ancheta: Viorica Buica, Luiza Zamora
Foto: Serban Bonciocat