Perspective
New Campus for Chu Hai College / OMA
Faroe Islands Education Center / BIG+Fuglark
M_BOX / Haeahn Architecture + Ju Architects & Planners
Elisabeth and Helmuth Uhl Foundation / Modostudio

Archipulse
Nottingham Contemporary_Caruso St John Architects
To Scale Objects_Text by Diego Terna
Hefei Dongdajie Sales Pavilion_Vector Architects
Memory Boxes_Text by Michele Stramezzi
Banyan Drive Treehouse_Rockefeller Partners Architects
Childhood Dream_text by Marta González Antón

Neverland for Children
The Meaning of Fantasy / Andrea Giannotti
Ecological Children Activity and Education / 24H architecture
Bridge School / Li Xiaodong Atelier
Woods of Net / Tezuka Architects
Fireplace for Children / Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter
Tree House / Nicko Björn Elliott
Monster’s Footprint / MAD

Urban Amenity
Beauty and the City / Marco Atzori
Bamboo Forest and Huts with Water / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & Associates
Cirkelbroen / Olafur Eliasson
Refurbishment of an Urban Wall / David Bravo Salvà
Landlines / Urban Art Projects
LED Action Facade / Langarita Navarro Arquitectos
Circa Gallery / Studio MAS

City in Architecture
A World Inside / Silvio Carta
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology / Planet 3 Studios Architecture
The Public / Alsop Architects
Hergé Museum / Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Unilever Headquarters / Behnisch Architekten
Yapı Kredi Bank Aacademy / Teğet Architectural Office

Neverland for Children

The Meaning of Fantasy
Becoming an adult has a natural consequence on understanding the world that surrounds us. This development alters our experiences, which can rarely go back to the first time we saw or touched a determined thing. Adults rarely get surprised by something because of the education and experience they got and are perfectly able to find the appropriate place for everything by putting it in well-defined categories. This attitude is part of a natural growing process. But let’s try for a moment to go back to the age of childhood and we will find that the importance of the things around us was put on a different level. Objects represent the basic knowledge of the world, and what our mind does is to perceive them first, in order to interpret and understand them after. Feelings are the not always clear answers to the questions that come up. In this condition, we must recognize that a child’s mind is much more open to unusual connections between things than a formed adult mind. The projects that follow show how architecture plays a fundamental role for the children, and how architecture should be concerned of that role and take advantage from this situation.
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Written by Andrea Giannotti 

City in Architecture

A World Inside
The difference between architecture and urbanism appears rather evident – at least as regards the terms themselves. But where exactly do a city end and a building start? Is there really a line between urbanism and architecture? If so, is that line identical with a building’s walls?
In 1978 George Perec's La Vie Mode d'Emploi (Life: A User's Manual), was released. There is usually an image – or rather a series of drawings – which is often associated with this book and his previous one, Espèces d'Espaces (Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 1974). A good but not comprehensive example is the Saul Steinberg drawing of a New York apartment house with its facade removed. Because of the missing facade, various spaces (rooms) in the building are visible, and the reader has an overview of what is happening simultaneously in several parts of the building. This image association moves the attention from the building itself – usually considered an urban object with its facade, entrance, external shapes (in other words, its appearance as an urban element) – to another level of reading for the building. Observing this image the reader is led to think about the building less as a unique urban object than as a container of something else. In other words, the missing main facade generally hides the real world inside the building. The drawing suggests that there is another world, which is usually considered a background element from the perspective of viewers on the street, behind the facade.
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Written by Silvio Carta