April - May - June 2000

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ArchiNed Society: Venetia - NL
June 27, 2000
Tutti Olandesi of any standing in the world of architecture – and that turned out to be quite a few – travelled to Venice, the Amsterdam of the South, for the weekend of June 16-17 to attend the festivities at the opening of la Bienale di Venezia. With the theme La Citta: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics, this year's director, Massimilano Fuksas, had got participating countries focused for the event.

EXPO 2000 - NL
June 05, 2000
On June 1 next, the EXPO 2000 world exhibition opens in Hanover. The NL pavilion designed by MVRDV is in many senses the highlight of the enormous exhibition grounds. ArchiNed will be providing coverage in a number of News Reports. First subject: the NL pavilion.

Ciboga under construction
June 02, 2000
Construction has recently started on the Circus site in Groningen, part of the CiBoGa site (Circus, Boden, Gasworks site), Groningen's last inner-city building site. The first project involves the completion of two 'eroded blocks' by S333 Architects, the office that won the 1994 Europan competition for this site.

short: Kees Christiaanse wins competition Leuven
May 30, 2000

Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners recently won a competition for the Sciencepark (Wetenschapspark) in the Belgium city of Leuven. The office got the assignment for the development and realisation of their design.

The plan of Christiaanse consists of five units of 20.000m2 each, connected by a park-like public parking. Each unit uses the natural slope of the landscape for extra functions; under a deck (constructed between the buildings) private parking lots are placed. The deck also functions as the entrance area for the lobbies and the publicly accessible parts in the individual clusters.

Six teams have been joining the competition. The jury consisted of the professors Koen Debackere, Vic Goedseels, Paul Robbrecht, André Loeckx and Marcel Smets, ir. Piet Philips (K.U. Leuven), Bart Massart (Community of Leuven), the Flemisch "bouwmeester" prof. Bob van Reeth and the Beheerscomité Wetenschapspark Leuven.

short: NOX in Nantes
May 16, 2000
Last Friday, 12 Th. of May, the exhibition ‘Vision Machine’ opened in Nantes. For the exhibition the Rotterdam based office NOX designed an installation in which the artworks are exhibited. Among them are various experimental works that were made under the influence of hallucinating drugs. The name of the exhibition is based on the concepts of Frederick Kiesler, who developed between 1938 and 1942 concepts to explain in an audio-visual way the human perception. NOX developed an installation that folds around the artworks and sets the works free from the formal, vertical context (the white museum wall) in which they are normally shown. The large public – among which were many young visitors – grabbed this unique possibility and folded and turned enthusiastically around the works.

ArchiNed will soon report on the installation, with video fragments on the design and the realisation of the installation.

exhibition: 13 Th. of May - 10 Th. of September 2000, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes (France)

Views on OMA's House of Music: Further Mental Exercises
April 17, 2000
Today it is announced that Rem Koolhaas is the 23rd Pritzker Prize Laureate. All information on this prize and on the winner can be found at the Pritzker prize website.

As a congratulation on our part we hereby publish an article by Rodrigo Cardoso on OMA's House of Music in Porto.

Venice Bienniale - Preview
April 2000
This summer - from June through to November 2000 - the new Architecture Biennale will be held in Venice. The Biennale offers an overview of what is current in the world of architecture (and related work in visual art) in the participating countries. The scenario for this year's event was drawn up by the Italian Massimiliano Fuksas, the flamboyant and - in Italy - not uncontroversial architect. Ahead of the opening, those interested can gain a preview on the Internet, where a rapidly growing exhibition of participants' work is in the making.