Tag: architecture

TRACY·TV #51: Albania opens new old doors in Venice

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 29 mei 2018. Gepost in Architectuur, Publicaties, Stedenbouw, TRACY•TV, Video.

For its entry to this year’s Architecture biennale in Venice, citizens of Tirana lent their doors – a symbol of the country’s hope that the EU will open its doors to Albania. I spoke to Tirana’s mayor, the fireball Erion Veliaj, about his plans for the city and the role he sees for contemporary architecture in making the city more liveable.

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TRACY·TV #46: Transforming 28 iconic bridge houses into 1 hotel

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 3 april 2018. Gepost in Architectuur, Design, Publicaties, Stad, TRACY•TV, Video.

SWEETS is 1 hotel consisting of 28 iconic bridge houses turned into hotel suites on the canals. I visited the hotel rooms and spoke to the artistic director Suzanne Oxenaar and architect Tjeerd Haccou of Space&Matter.

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TRACY•TV #41 – Curator Anne van der Zwaag about Object Rotterdam

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 20 februari 2018. Gepost in Publicaties, TRACY•TV, Video.

I interviewed Anne van der Zwaag, the curator of Object Rotterdam, a fair for contemporary design. This year, Object Rotterdam was held in the HAKA building, an amazing architectural monument, which is a national heritage site since 2002 and was one the first buildings build from trash.

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TRACY•TV #39 – Eddo Hartmann shows us the secretive North-Korea

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 6 februari 2018. Gepost in Publicaties, TRACY•TV, Video.

North-Korea is one of the most secretive places in the world. Photographer Eddo Hartmann gives us an insight in the architecture and living world of the people of Pyongyang, which both are under strict rules and regulations. Dutch journalist Tracy Metz visited together with him his exhibition ‘Setting the Stage’ in Huis Marseille and interviewed him about his work.

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TRACY•TV #37 – Bruno Doedens shows a different Dutch landscape

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 26 januari 2018. Gepost in Publicaties, TRACY•TV, Video.

This week I show you three design and architecture projects. I took a look behind the scenes at the winter studio of Sarah van Sonsbeeck. She designs ‘mental architecture’ and asked students of the Academy of Architecture to design silence for the city of Amsterdam. The Window Show displays art in the shop windows of the Haarlermmerstraat. And I was at the yearly presentation of landscape artist Bruno Doedens where he showed a preview of his new work.

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