Plaza Elisabet, Budapest,Hungía
Club Gödör

 

Short history of Potsdamer Platz

• 1730, urban development in a baroque style, expanding in west.Following the Parisian example, 3 geometric squares are constructed: Rondell (today: Mehringplatz), Octogon (Leipziger Platz), Carrée (Pariser Platz).
• Originally Potsdamer Platz came into being as a square (Torplatz) around one of the city gates. This was the point where the road from the Royal Residance of Potsdam entered the city of Berlin. Potsdamer Platz was the pair of Leipziger Platz outside the city wall (the so called Akzisemauer).  
• 1742: Tiergarten was pronounced to be a public park,  the roles of Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz were getting more and more important. The housing of the area strated very slowly, the majority of the houses reflected a countrified stlye.
• architectural and construction activity (Unter den Linden, Leipziger Platz) , plans of Friedrich Gilly and Schinkel 
• 1867: demolition of the city wall, Berlin turns into a capital city, the Potsdamer Bahnhof is put into operation. The importance of the to squares Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz is inverted, the roles are interchanged.  Till then Leipziger Platz was the dominant of the two squares, Potsdamer Platz was only an insignificant, amorphous square, generraly used for waiting before one could enter the city. Now,Potsdamer Platz comes to the front, as important traffic junction.
• The residential houses are dipappearing from the square, while more and more commercial bulidings are being constructed offering a large scale of services. One of them was the especially famous commercial center called Wertheim designed by Alfred Messel. 
• Potsdamer Platz in the first decades of the 20th century: vivid place in the city with heavy traffic, restaurantes, cafés, hotels, intensive social life, embraced by Haus Vaterland and Potsdamer Bahnhof. At the beginning of the 1930s with the commercial bulidings of the Teltschow brothers , modern architecture showed up as well. Posdamer Platz was one of the busiest squares of the city, in the 1920s it was getting even more chaotic.  
• World War II left the city in ruins, but Potsdamer Platz could have been reconstructed despite of all the devastation. However, the erection of the Wall made it impossible and converted the once vivid and significant point of the city into a desert, the land of no-one. 
• The deconsrtucion of neighbouring buildings started on the western side in order to construct a multilaned north-south highway along the Wall, as it was planned. That is partially the reason for the position of the buildings of Scharoun and the Kulturforum, which are situated perpendicularly to the former Potsdamer Strasse. 
• Demolition of the Wall in 1989, plans for the reconstrucions of the city center. After the negotiations in 1989, Daimler Benz and Sony bought large territories which led to indignation and debates. The fate of Potsdamer Platz was in the hand of multinational companies and investors, the city deprived itself of the right of making further regulations. 
• The first plans proposing intensive low housing in the area didn’t satisfy the investors so they came up with their own plan co-working with Richard Rogers. The city opposed, rejected the proposal and ordered the resignation of Rogers, who later was nearly dismissed from Berlin. Rem Koolhaas, being part of the jury, also resigned and left Berlin. As the investors got rid of Rogers, they got furter permissions (for instance, instead of the the former 22 meters of maximum height they were allowed to conrtuct buildings of even 80 meters of altitude).    
  
  
   

Casa de Música, Algueña, España

Arquitecto: Cor & Asociados 

Amliación de un edificio existente con una sala de usos variables.La nueva parte cierra el edificio viejo en forma de 'U' y crea un patio en el centro.

MQ, Viena, Austria

Viena es uno de los capitales de cultura. Aquí sentimos como estemos rodeado por cultura en todos los puntos del centro de la ciudad. Pero en el Museumsquartier esta impresión es más fuerte. Con la reconstrucción y ampliación de los cuadras cortesanas de antes se realizó un lugar donde el viejo y el nuevo se reunen escondiendose detrás de los paredes baroccos , un lugar que siempre esta llena de gente. La plaza ambrazada por los edificios de Museo Leopold, Museo Ludwig (MUMOK), y el de los tiempos baroccos, no tiene un uso determinado, sólo únicos muebles de la calle creados por PPAG Architects, que permiten un aparecimiento variable.Siempre se cambian la disposición y el color.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=OVQitRMlEP8
Der Himmel über Berlin, translated literally as The Sky Over Berlin (Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders)

En esta escena de la película se puede ver Potsdamer Platz después de la Guerra Mundial y la constucción del Muro. Una plaza desierta que no indica la presencia de una sociedad y paisaje urbana, a pesar de que en los años veinte Potsdamer Platz fuera el punto más frecuentado y bullicioso de Berlín.

 

Centro Kodály, Pécs, Hungría

En 2010 Pécs fue la Capital Europea de la Cultura. Por este evento se realizaron cinco proyectos principales en la ciudad. Uno fue el Centro Kodály. (Zoltán Kodály 1882-1967 es uno de los más destacados músicos húngaros de todos los tiempos.) El edificio en palabras claves: 

"caracol de piedra", madera en el interior, el edificio abraza la sala del concierto (con 999 asientos), 

conciertos (clásico y ligero), sede de la Filharmónica Pannon de Pécs, conferencias, otros eventos

tiene 3 entradas (pública, de personal, para artistas conviadas), 3 escaleras que conectan todas las plantas ( una para el público, una para artistas y servidumbre)

Materia: caliza, vidrio, madera

el edificio no es como una fortificación, se puede usar sus areas publicas, rampas que nos llevan a la terazza por encima, atrio tiene conexión directa con los espacios de fuera