Focusing on the importance of architecture and urbanism in today’s European Union, this year’s Archilab exhibition opened last week in Orléans, France. The title is Strategic Architecture and the show this year is curated by Omar Akbar, director of the German Foundation Bauhaus-Dessau. While the biennial architectural event’s official home, the Subsistances Militaires site, is currently being transformed by Jakob+MacFarlane architects, the event this year is being held in two locations: the FRAC Centre houses the show’s introduction, and a neighbouring church hosts the event’s main body, with 30 urban projects from all over Europe on show, from Riga Port City’s OMA master plan to Istanbul Kartal urban transformation by Zaha Hadid.
( photo : Masterplan for Istanbul by Zaha Hadid Architects, presented at Archilab 2008 )
( photo : Masterplan for Istanbul by Zaha Hadid Architects, presented at Archilab 2008 )
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