blog wunderlust : 4th July 2011

Architecture, like food is best when it reflects the local environment

David Cuthbert

images by Walter Herfst

Across Europe, irking drivers is urban policy | Book Reveals Secrets Of Nature's Premier Architects: Birds | Totally cosmic: the Life Mounds of Charles Jencks | top 100 architects on Twitter | Unesco does not consider candidacy works of Le Corbusier as world heritage | Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights | Take this design, and sit on it | Bjarke Ingels designs incinerator that doubles as ski slope in Copenhagen |

last word: (daily double) Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 and Serpentine From Past to Present: Zaha to Zumthor

On the Boards: National Gymnastics Centre Pegan Petkovšek

The competition entry for the National Gymnastics Centre in Ljubljana designed by architects Enota was conceived as a daily training facility where athletes spend a lot of their time. The central guideline for the 6,500 m² was thus to design a building with plenty of natural light which would appeal to its users and inspire in them a feeling of direct connection with sport at all times.