issue #5

Zadar reinvented
Nikola Bashich’s work on places of new urban memory.
Zaharna fabrika quarter, Sofia
The owners of the listed factory want to job her off by leaving the site to demolition by “unidentified tresspassers”.
Rotermann quarter, Tallinn, Estonia
Rehabilitation of former industrial zones with a potential for the city.
Swimming in vegetation
In Bandol, France, architect Rudy Ricciotti inserts Villa Mendelsohn in the landscape`.
A house in Bistritza by I/O Architects
Located in a small mountain village, now a quarter of Sofia, the house is a simple volume floating over the steep triangular plot, carried on four pilotis.
The competition for Secondary City Centre of Sofia
The jury selected the design of Dominique Perrault, and the discussions on the issues brought to the foreground by this competition, as well as the deliberation on the projects,...
The lost museum
Poduene Railway Station, the Sofia Arsenal, and then… a Museum of Contemporary Art in Sofia

Abitare, Bulgaria, Issue #5
July 2009
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10 EDITORIAL
Archit/ecologist
by Ivo Zahariev
illustration Gradinko

PROFILES
15 Magdalena Maleeva
text by Ivo Hristov / photos by Teodora Zareva

19 Steven Berkoff
text by George Toshev

22 4th Belgrade international architecture week
by Antonie Manolova

DRAWING PROGRAMME
Lesson Five: Timely break
by Enzo Mari

SOS ABITARE
62 Can you design for a property developer and save your soul?
project Nicola Probst
the answers by Alejandro Aravena and Michel Rojkind
edited by Anna Foppiano and Matteo Poli
photos by Giovanna Silva

Architecture observations
34 Zaharna fabrica quarter, Sofia
A never ending story
text by Aneta Vasileva
photos by Teodora Zareva

42 Selected from Monuments of culture and museums act

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

44 Rotermann quarter, Tallinn
project KOKO architects OU
text by Pavel Yanchev
photos by Andrus Koresaar
edited by Antonie Manolova

52 The Litomysl castle
project Jozef Pleskot
photos by Jan Maly
edited by Antonie Manolova

76 A house in Bistritza
project by I/ O architects
text by Yoshi Yamazaki
photos by Teodora Zareva
edited by Antonie Manolova

82 Swimming in vegetation
project Rudy Ricciotti
text by Olivier Boissierе
photos by Alain Sauvan, Fernando Guerra
edited by Tzvetana Chipkova

96 En plain air
рroject Archea Associati
98 Postcards from a happy world
story by Noemi Cuffia
photos by A7B Photodesign, Pietro Savorelli

106 Нotel Sotelia in Slovenia.
project Enota studio
photos by Miran Kambic
edited by Antonie Manolova

112 The guards house
project Bai Yang
text by Wang Lu
photos by Daniele Dainelli
edited by Maria Giulia Zunino

126 Zadar reinvented
project Nikola Bashich
text by Ivana Katurich
photos by Stipe Surach
edited by Antonie Manolova

DESIGN
24 Fernando and Humberto Campana on the second life of things
interwiew by Antonie Manolova
photos by Vitra Design Museum

BRIGHT LIFE
123 Life without a garbage bin
text by Stefan Galibov
photos by Artecolonia

PORTFOLIO
136 Urban furniture
selected by Penka Stancheva

142 CURIOSITIES

104 Instructions and manuals
Salottobuono / by Salottobuono

Section
145 The competition for Secondary City Centre of Sofia
145 Dominique Perrault. A short profile
text by Olivier Boissiere
149 The new city centre and the present issues of Sofia
text by Hristo Genchev
152 A new standard considering urban problems
text Georgii Stanishev
153 A 2-billion-Euro Question
text by Yana Bodurova
edited by Tzvetana Chipkova
154 The lost museum
155 Something pragmatic is concerned here
interview with Boris Danailov
158 Тhere is a serious ethical issue
Yara Bubnova
159 United efforts are needed
Maria Vasileva
160 Why not invite someone from abroad?
Uwe Reinhardt and Philipp Teufel
162 First comes a good program, then everything else
interview with Edelbert Koeb
edited by Antonie Manolova, Tzvetana Chipkova

Cover: Fernando Guerra