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OSNAP at Days of Architecture Sarajevo 2016

Opening of this year’s edition with Yo.V.A. exhibition in Vijećnica. OSNAP in cooperation with Days of Architecture, Austrian Embassy and City of Vienna. It was a great pleasure to take part in this year’s programme and discuss about ‘Architecture beyond…

TRADITIONAL BOSNIAN HOUSE BEFORE AND AFTER ENERGY PRICES SKYROCKETED

Houses with unfinished facades are common throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. They may not be considered beautiful, but like many other questionable structures they constitute a part of our everyday experience. With some exceptions, these structures are a result of scarcity…

BRANDLHUBER PLEASE HELP

03.14.2016 BRANDLHUBER PLEASE HELP! Following the discussion about the construction of a hotel next to Stara Pravoslavna crkva (Old Orthodox Church), we see yet another construction paused, due to legal and/or investment disputes, becoming one of many structures that do…

STROSMAJER CATWALK

We still believe that the winning proposal of the urban design competition for Strosmajer Street is a misunderstood, ironic entry that intends to question the very nature of historism and commercialization of city centres. Anyway, the entry leads to the…

KEIN PLATZ FÜR GROSSZÜGIGKEIT

Was tun, wenn den Auftraggebern ihr Haus zu klein ist obwohl es eigentlich recht groß ist? Wenn ein Kinderzimmer als Stauraum genutzt werden muss und der große Raum im Zwischengeschoß durch einen Schreibtisch und andere Kleinigkeiten besetzt wird? Aufräumen! Um…

OSNAP at the culture talk / opening ceremony of the BH – AT cultural year 2016 in the National Theater Sarajevo.

ENDANGERED ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES

We are happy to agree with our client NOT to extend this iconic cabin from the 80’s on Jahorina, rather to keep the spirit of Yugoslav modernism alive. The ongoing building activities on Jahorina very much remind on Christopher Long’s…

A FAMILIAR MEETING PLACE

Being architects and familiar with the designs of Frank L. Wright we find these ruins, which became constituent elements of Bosnia’s post war landscape intriguing. They seem like literal manifestations of Frank L. Wright’s design principles for homes > chimneys…

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU HAVE A HANDS-ON CLIENT WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO GET HIS HANDS DIRTY?

When works are lagging behind schedule and head in a different direction than agreed? Naturally, the client gets into his car, invites his buddy who is a trained carpenter and does the job himself!

SOUS LES PAVÉS, LA PLAGE! BENEATH THE PAVEMENT, THE BEACH!

Protesters in the riots of 1968 expressed their anger with the government by throwing paving stones against the police. Flying stones were accompanied by the rally crie ‘Sous les pavés, la plage!’. When protesters ripped out the paving stones the…

THANK YOU DAYS OF ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EXCITING ARCH-WEEKEND IN SARAJEVO!

THERE SHOULD BE MORE ‘ZIGZAGING’ IN THIS WORLD!

In memory of our dearest Gilles Deleuze and the becoming of the universe: ‘le zigzag’ In The Abecedaire of Gilles Deleuze (Gilles Deleuze from A to Z) Claire Parnet suggests zigzag for the last letter of the alphabet. ‘With the mark of the zigzag…