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Wydanie 1-2 z 2009 roku

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Editorial
Matthias Boeckl editor-in-chief
Daniel Libeskind - Westside Shopping Centre, Bern, Switzerland
Text: Dominika Glogowski - Children's wonderland for large and small
ATP - ATRIO shopping centre in Villach
Text: Matthias Boeckl - Designer urban planning in suburbia
Marjan Zupanc - Tuš Supermarket in Celje, Slovenia
Text: Andrej Hrausky - The roof is the message
Essay Omotesando Shopping District Tokyo
Text: Martin Hablesreiter - An architecture catwalk
BEHF - Wertgarner sport & firearms shop, Vienna
Text: Romana Ring - With the weapons of CI
Ibos Vitart - Mediatheque André Malraux Strasbourg
Text: Dominique Boudet - A functional book storeroom
Boris Podrecca - Primorje administration building, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Text: Matthias Boeckl - Visible success 

Wybrane eseje z tego wydania w języku angielskim:

Designer urban planning in suburbia

Due to their size alone shopping centres measuring more than 30,000 m² are often criticised as one large urban planning catastrophe. Yet, even under the strict regulations of shopping urbanism a successful start can be made to forming a suburban centre.
Austria does not exactly create difficulties for unfavourable developments in the areas of economic structure and spatial planning: on the one hand politicians have ignored for decades the reality of intensive suburbanisation (which has resulted in widespread inner-city decay), on the other the small structured nature of commerce and the guild of planners have refused to acknowledge the opportunities offered by the shopping centre, which, ironically enough, was invented by the exile Austrian Victor Gruen in the USA in 1954. This incompetence in the design of suburbia left the field entirely to a handful of forward-looking entrepreneurs who since the 1960s have looked at the reality of life in the consumer society. The comfortable approach taken by Austria has had its price: the result is an extreme concentration in the area of retailing, unique in Europe, which is in fact unworthy of a highly developed economy. Politicians can today only lament the historic missed opportunities; they can offer no opposition in terms of power or planning alternatives to the two or three large chains that dictate events. The last attempt to influence this sector by means of locally devised solidarity-based concepts failed dramatically with the collapse of the Konsum chain whose former premium locations the two heavyweights in the food sector, the German Rewe and the Austrian Spar Group, were able to take over without a struggle. In Villach, too, Spar, the only food retailing concern still in Austrian hands, –which in the form of the Spar European Shopping Centers GmbH (SES) also has a strategically active development business for lettable shopping centre space – was able to take over a former Konsum location together with an extension building permit of the present size. In the Austrian retail trade it is so far only the owners of Spar who have reacted successfully to modern structures allowing them now to run large locations in several central European countries; in the design and planning field much the same can be said of the office of ATP Architekten und Ingenieure. Founded in 1951 by Fred Achammer as a classic architectural office and initially expanded in 1976 to form Austria's largest integrated planning company, for decades now this firm has operated successfully with the Spar group. A substantial number of the shopping malls run by SES in Europe were designed by ATP. (...)
Photos Markus Bstieler, Thomas Jantscher, Elke Visciotto
Text Matthias Boeckl

Children's wonderland for large and small

Rarely are Libeskind's angled walls as straight as those in the Westside shopping mall that was opened in October in the city of Bern (population 130,000). Strolling, amusing oneself and residing in a place high above the motorway are the unusual mottos of Libeskind's first shopping centre.
An architectural wonderland for grown ups is presented here that is rounded off by a subtle children's land by the Bregenz team, Raumhochrosen. European boulevards or bazaar-like stands, a vocabulary of forms that simulate for the visitor adventurous journeys into a partly virtual world – for a long time what is polemically often called retail architecture defined itself in terms of this trend. "Experience" was understood as the copy of an inner city space. With Westside Daniel Libeskind, the American virtuoso with Polish Jewish roots, sets new standards. His architectural forms have always left a highly individual stamp on the few projects he has carried out to date. Spectacularly inclined walls, angles and edges provide a high level of recognisability. But can such a dominant architectural language "function" in a shopping centre? Might it possibly be seen as a competitor to the main purpose of generating turnover?
Multi-storey prefabricated panel buildings from the 1960s are evidence of the first attempts at urban expansion on the western periphery of Bern. They form a distant backdrop for the Westside building which was opened on 8 October, cost 500 million Swiss francs and is an investment of the Neue Brünnen AG, a daughter company 100 % owned by the Migros Aare Cooperative. In addition to retail and entertainment areas the competition set up in 2000 also called for a residential section. Solved in the form of a home for the elderly Libeskind integrates this facility in a retail area consisting of 55 shops. With ten restaurants, a supermarket, a cinema, a 10,000m² spa and swimming pool complex as well as a hotel the project, whose name suggests the hip Westside in New York, already has micro-urban aspirations. Measures such as for example a water treatment plant for the swimming pool, triple glazing in the home for the elderly or the 1:1 recovery of waste energy from the mall to heat the baths mean that the project achieves the Swiss "Minergie" energy certificate. The services sector is expanded to include a home delivery service, refrigerated lockers as well as train information portals. The development of the surrounding area with residential buildings for around 2500 residents is scheduled for completion by 2018. An urban planning mix will be achieved by giving the commissions for the 21 building sites to different firms. Social infrastructure, separate access and exit slip roads from the A1 (Lausanne-Zurich) to the mall, and a public transport network of the kind that unfortunately can only be achieved in Switzerland complement this ambitious urban expansion project. (...)

Photos Bitter & Bredt, Bruno Klomfar

Text Dominika Glogowski

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