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a halfway house for ex-prisoners in Rotterdam Converting part of an architectural icon into a halfway house for prisoners and ex-cons is not your average brief, but one that Personal Architecture were faced with at the Exodus Cube in Rotterdam. Cristina Ampatzidou talked to the architects and assesses a tricky commission. In 1974, Piet Blom …
The troubled history of a key masterwork of one Greece’s most significant post-war modernist architects, Takis Zenetos’ FIX brewery building in Athens, might just be about to have a happy ending. Due to open as the new National Museum of Contemporary Art in March next year, Cristina Ampatzidou traces a tortuous road of disuse, mutilation, delays and lawsuits …
This year’s Architecture Film Festival in Rotterdam, which took place from the 10th -13th October was bigger than ever. With three days of the best architecture in the dark, talks and parallel events over the course of a miserably wet weekend, Rotterdam was certainly an interesting place to be. The theme of the 7th AFFR …
Amsterdam has a new attraction: urban food tourism. Why is the history of culinary culture so important to understanding the city today? Inspired by the work of Carolyn Steel, author of the book Hungry City and advocator of the intrinsic relationship between food and urban landscapes, the Amsterdam-based Cities Foundation embarked on a research project …
Read the article on Uncube Magazine website Apparently in Greece, not everyone appreciates the added quality that architectural design can contribute to living space. In a country where an architect’s title is protected but not their practice, architects sign few of the new building permits and contribute to the design of even less of them. …