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Workshop "UN Studio" presented a project for the reconstruction of the Rotterdam Post Office

The famous festival of architecture and interior design "Under the Roof of a House", on its 10th anniversary, changed the roof of the House on Brestskaya to a building on Krymsky Val, where it was hosted by the Tretyakov Gallery. Thus, the festival not only thematically, but also spatially merged with the architectural biennale taking place in the same building. Yesterday, as always, numerous awards were presented to its participants

The lecture by Rok Oman, one of the founders of the architectural bureau OFIS Architects (Slovenia), is the latest story from the lecture program of the Moscow Biennale of Architecture that we are covering. To the main question of the Biennale - "How to live?", The architect answered ambiguously, but brightly and entertainingly, showing the audience the work of his bureau from the category of residential construction. As a formula for a modern residential apartment building, Oman put forward its cheapness, multiplied by the requirements of customers and by a bright, sometimes even

The winner of the competition of ideas for the project of the new Constantin Brancusi Museum in Paris has been determined

Developed a system for using energy from pedestrian traffic to illuminate London shops and subways

We continue to publish the texts of interviews with architects participating in the exposition of the Russian pavilion of the XI Venice Biennale. Interviews will be posted in the catalog of the Russian pavilion

Chicago-based Sears Tower acquired a new observation deck, and in the future will become one of the most energy efficient high-rise buildings in the world

New building of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opens in San Francisco

OMA bureau presented a project of a multifunctional complex for the center of Rotterdam

Monuments of the architecture of modernism in different parts of the world find themselves in a dangerous dependence on the attitude of society towards them

The Expo-2008 exhibition opened in Zaragoza, the main architectural "event" of which is the bridge-pavilion of Zaha Hadid

The Vivaldi Tower, designed by Norman Foster, completed in Amsterdam

Young Belgian architect Vincent Calbeau designed water towns for "environmental refugees"

A variation of David Chipperfield's farmhouse theme to be built in Oxfordshire

The Museum of Architecture, as part of the first Moscow Architecture Biennale, is hosting a rare research exhibition dedicated to the little-known work of Ivan Leonidov - the interiors of the pioneers' house, designed in the late 1930s in Tver (Kalinin) by a team of architects and painters under his leadership

Yesterday at the Museum of Architecture, Sergei Tchoban and Irina Shipova presented the first issue of the new architectural magazine ‘SPEECH:’, founded by the architects of the Moscow studio with the same name. The presentation was accompanied by a lecture by the Tokyo Englishmen Atrid Klein and Mark Daitem and the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Yuri Palmin

Sergei Melnichenko's lecture was organized by C: SA within the framework of the "Modern City" program. Her listeners learned that the Moskomarkhitektura since 2003 has been creating a complex database of projects, buildings, urban planning decisions and regulations. And that anyone can turn to her

A logical continuation of the discourse on the theme of ornament in architecture, deployed on the pages of the first issue of the magazine 'SPEECH:', was a lecture by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham from the Tokyo bureau Klein & Dytham Architecture, known for their passion for ornamental "images" on facades, as well as thanks to the festival of young designers with the funny name "Pecha Kucha", coined by Klein and Daytem. The lecture was held on Tuesday in the courtyard of the Museum of Architecture as part of the presentation

A lecture by Alfred Jacobi, Rector of the Dessau School of Architecture, was held as part of the C: CA OVERVIEW program at the Moscow House of Architects. The topic of the lecture was a separate and very personal area in the work of Alfred Jacobi - the construction of synagogues and Jewish centers. The fact is that as a child, the architect went through the tragic experience of the Holocaust, then, living in post-war Germany, he experienced the hard fate of Jews who miraculously survived the Nazi regime

Raphael Vignoli presented the renovation project of the famous London Battersea power plant, including turning it into an environmentally friendly energy center