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The New Europe
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In May 2004, Europe was redefined. Ten countries - Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia - joined the European Union (EU). Two years on, the full impact of the forces this historical event has unleashed has yet to be understood. For not only is the expansion having an unequivocal bearing on 'old' Europe, it is also helping to change the countries of 'new Europe'. As the economic and the political balance of the enlarged EU is being redrawn, the identities of the newly joined countries is in flux - the majority of the joining states being under Communist rule less than two decades ago.


Contemporary architecture in these 10 countries necessarily presents itself as a process that is anything but linear. It must deal with hybridisation, with new global trends, as well as with the permanence of structures and national heritage. Architects, mostly practising in the private rather than public sphere, are contending with the various political inconsistencies of administrations undergoing change.


The very different panorama in each new member state avoids generalisation. As a broken mirror, this issue of AD does not pretend to provide anything but a partial - though authentic - view of the very crucial issues that contemporary architecture has to cope with. Local contributors look at the transformation of the city and national heritage, while also spotting a new generational fringe of local architects. The ethnic diversity drawn by this publication excites with its cultural richness, but also raises the looming question of what the identity of the new Europe might constitute in the future
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Valentine Croci is a freelance journalist and PhD student at the Industrial Design and Visual Art Department of the Venice University of Architecture (IUAV). Valentina writes monthly for Italian magazine Ottagono, reviewing industrial design and architecture and has been on the editorial staff for three years. She is also a freelance contributor to the Italian quarterly architectural review Il Progetto.  In 2001 she collaborated on the first issue of OP – a series of architectural monographs – about Santiago Calatrava. She has also written two Practice Profiles for Architectural Design about the Italian architectural firm 5+1 Architetti Associati (September/October 2004), and the Slovenian firm Bevc-Perovic Arhitekti (publication due in March/April 2005).
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Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction: New Europe: Place(s) Without a Sense of Place? (Valentina Croci).

Cyprus: Nicosia and its d-Visions (Christos Hadjichristos).

Latvia: The Future in Riga’s Past (Janis Lejnieks).

Identity Game: Czech and Slovak Architecture Magazines as Travelogues (Maria Topolcanská).

Hungary: The Organic and the Rational Traditions (Edwin Heathcote).

Slovenia: An Architectural Heritage Moving Forward (Andrej Hrausky).

Estonia: The Remarkable Afterlife of the Linnahall Concert Hall (Andres Kurg).

Poland: Transforming Factories into Cultural and Educational Facilities (Hubert Trammer).

Estonia: Expanding Suburbia – White Neomodernist Villas and Beyond (Andres Kurg).

Lithuania: Assembling in Cities (Audrys Karalius).

Malta: Housing and Real Estate, 1980–2005 (Lino Bianco).

New Polish Architecture – Seeking to Establish Order? (Marta A Urba´nska).

Slovenia: A New Generation (Miha Desman).

Berlin’s Empty Heart (Howard Watson).

Building Profile District Court of Justice, Katowice (Jeremy Melvin).

Book Review Contemporary Architecture in China Compiled (Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren).

Interior Eye Top of the Rock Observatory (Jayne Merkel).

Theatre Beyond Child’s Play (Howard Watson).

Home Run Nile Street: Mixed-Tenure Housing (Bruce Stewart).

McLean’s Nuggets (Will McLean).

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