The Floating Pavilion to present arts and architecture of Croatia at the Venice Biennale is constructed on an existing barge with dimensions of 10m x 20m x 3m. It is designed by a group of 14 leading Croatian architects, who have made the recent Croatian architecture visible on the global scene. Instead of working in the usual formats of their practices and presenting speculative projects, they decided to work together on a single proposal and to have it constructed and towed toward its final destination in Venice right away. The pavilion structure is the barge's cargo, welded from 30 tons of Q385 wire mesh in more than 40 layers of varying contours. The cargo presented here maps the process of intense interaction between architects working on the common project, their collaboration with the Croatian maritime industry, and the extraordinary act of architecture it produced. Please follow the pavilion's maiden voyage across the Adriatic at www.pavilion.hr.
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Prishtina - 08 January 2010 - Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met with his Kosovan counterpart on Friday (January 10) in Pristina for the first time during his term as president. Mesic is the highest Croatian official to visit Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008. Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu said Mesic and his country were a big supporter of Kosovo's independence. "Firstly, I want to thank President Mesic and the Republic of Croatia for the powerful support they gave and continue giving to the republic of Kosovo and its people," Sejdiu said during a news conference. The president of Kosovo gifted Mesic with a "Golden Medal of Independence" for his deeds in supporting Kosovo's statehood. "The architecture of this region is finished and the whole region must join the European Union because Europe is becoming unified whether someone likes it or not. The only open question is how fast certain countries can join," the Croatian President said during his one day visit. Mesic's second five-year mandatein February and the visit to Kosovo is among his last foreign trips. "I have highlighted, as I constantly do, my official visit to the republic of Kosovo is not oriented against anyone, but to the contrary, it is for the purpose of improving regional stability and co-operation," Mesic said. Relations between Serbia and Croatia were soured after Croatia recognized Kosovo's independence in 2008, which was Serbia's former breakaway province. Both Croatia and ...
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The conference organized by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic moves to transcend simplistic visions of contemporary ecology Proto/e/co/logics: speculative materialism in architecture, a summer symposium curated by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic, and staged in the beautiful setting of the Rovinj archipelago on the Istrian coast, aimed to 'tease out speculative directions for architecture beyond innocent and reductive approaches to ecology.' The focus for Andrasek, co-founder of biothing in London, and Juricic, was on architects finding an agency within nature, 'a condition that is already artificial', embracing the complexity of society. Recent tendencies have indeed taken a unique set of positions, driven by mathematical and computational abstractions, as the duo observe, transforming the ways in which architects consider the 'matter-information relationship'. Now that matter itself is perceived as an active agent, and 'greenwashing' is so common, what kind of architectural speculation strategies in relation to 'denaturalised material ecology' - bearing in mind nature's modes of behavior from generative beauty to utter disequilibrium - are desirable?
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The conference organized by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic moves to transcend simplistic visions of contemporary ecology Proto/e/co/logics: speculative materialism in architecture, a summer symposium curated by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic, and staged in the beautiful setting of the Rovinj archipelago on the Istrian coast, aimed to 'tease out speculative directions for architecture beyond innocent and reductive approaches to ecology.' The focus for Andrasek, co-founder of biothing in London, and Juricic, was on architects finding an agency within nature, 'a condition that is already artificial', embracing the complexity of society. Recent tendencies have indeed taken a unique set of positions, driven by mathematical and computational abstractions, as the duo observe, transforming the ways in which architects consider the 'matter-information relationship'. Now that matter itself is perceived as an active agent, and 'greenwashing' is so common, what kind of architectural speculation strategies in relation to 'denaturalised material ecology' - bearing in mind nature's modes of behavior from generative beauty to utter disequilibrium - are desirable?
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A vist ot the lovely village of Cavtat just south of Dubrovnic.
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boomerang.atmosfera.hr Boomerang is modular furniture system designed by Croatian architecture studio ATMOSFERA. One shape (boomerang), with holes, gives you options to create different furnishings such as chair, lounger, hanger, table etc...
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Beside the installation which was built especially for Venice Biennale of Architecture main exibition Penezić and Rogina also introduced their Manifesto that presents their critical vision of todays architecture with an eye on the future offering action points to follow. It is clear that Penezić and Rogina architects are the once who are taking Croatian architecture into the 21st century by dedicating their lives to transforming it from mechanical towards digital era. Movie made by Vlado Gojun, shoot by Lutvo Mekić.
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Croatian HTV (Hrvatska Televizija: Croatian Television) media house report on pseudo-neoclassical urban project "Skopje 2014" based on appropriation of Hellenic architectural styles, symbols, and representations of prominent persons as "Macedonian" in a Non-Hellenic sense. Included in the conversation as interviewed persons are: Mayor of Skopje Koce Trajanovski (VMRO-DPMNE), Nikola Naumovski from the NGO "Ploštad sloboda" ("The Liberty Square") and Professor of Architecture Miroslav Grčev
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The conference organized by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic moves to transcend simplistic visions of contemporary ecology Proto/e/co/logics: speculative materialism in architecture, a summer symposium curated by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic, and staged in the beautiful setting of the Rovinj archipelago on the Istrian coast, aimed to 'tease out speculative directions for architecture beyond innocent and reductive approaches to ecology.' The focus for Andrasek, co-founder of biothing in London, and Juricic, was on architects finding an agency within nature, 'a condition that is already artificial', embracing the complexity of society. Recent tendencies have indeed taken a unique set of positions, driven by mathematical and computational abstractions, as the duo observe, transforming the ways in which architects consider the 'matter-information relationship'. Now that matter itself is perceived as an active agent, and 'greenwashing' is so common, what kind of architectural speculation strategies in relation to 'denaturalised material ecology' - bearing in mind nature's modes of behavior from generative beauty to utter disequilibrium - are desirable?
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Recent tendencies have indeed taken a unique set of positions, driven by mathematical and computational abstractions, as the duo observe, transforming the ways in which architects consider the 'matter-information relationship'. Now that matter itself is perceived as an active agent, and 'greenwashing' is so common, what kind of architectural speculation strategies in relation to 'denaturalised material ecology' - bearing in mind nature's modes of behavior from generative beauty to utter disequilibrium - are desirable?
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Go to www.CroatianGuides.com to get great information on Croatia! We at Croatian Guides are looking forward to welcoming you to our family of travel enthusiasts!
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Dubrovnik is a historic city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia. The prosperity of the city of Dubrovnik has always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Ragusa, it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries. Today Dubrovnik is a tranquil touristic and cultural center hosting many musical, art and theater events year round.
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Beauty of Bulgaria and Croatia. Аз обичам България! This video contains pictures of Bulgarian and Croatian Coast, Diving, Wildlife, Landscape, Castles, Churches, Bridges, Cities, Architecture, Food, Traditional clothing and Women. The video starts with a Croatian song (Miroslav Skoro - Moja vilo) and ends with a Bulgarian song (Teodora & DJ Pantelis - Beleg na vrata).
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A visit to Fort Lovrijenac in Dubrovnic
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Wandering the streets in Dubrovnic
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thephantomsguest ambient guitar put to pics I took in Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Croatia Music Copyright thephantomsguest 2011
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Just wandering around Zagreb, Croatia
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Recent tendencies have indeed taken a unique set of positions, driven by mathematical and computational abstractions, as the duo observe, transforming the ways in which architects consider the 'matter-information relationship'. Now that matter itself is perceived as an active agent, and 'greenwashing' is so common, what kind of architectural speculation strategies in relation to 'denaturalised material ecology' - bearing in mind nature's modes of behavior from generative beauty to utter disequilibrium - are desirable?
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Some of the churches in Dubrovnic
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