General @ 25 Dec 2008 06:00 am by Robert Schmidl
The European Cities Monitor is an annual survey by commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield that compares Europe’s major business cities. Furthermore, the survey indicates the cities’ performance in key categories ranging from the best cities in which to locate a business to the availability of qualified staff. The monitor 2008 covers 34 European cities, making it an invaluable guide to site selection.
The underlying data was researched independently by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres) and senior executives from 500 European companies gave their views on Europe’s leading business cities. Cities are recognising that they are increasingly in competition with each other to attract inward investment and European Cities Monitor examines some of the issues they need to address and indicates how effectively each European city performs and where improvements have been made. (more…)
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Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night cultural festival. The festival lasts from sundown until sunrise on the first Saturday and Sunday in October and has, since its premiere in Paris 2002, spread to many other cities internationally, including Brussels, Chicago, Toronto and many more.
During this festival, an interesting project came to light in Toronto this year – an installation called Stereoscope. Stereoscope is an interactive light installation at Toronto City Hall. This installation by the German group Project Blinkenlights transforms the landmark towers into a huge display screen by arranging lamps behind each of the 960 windows of the building. From October 4th – October 12th, 2008 (from dusk till dawn) the façade served as an ever-changing and evolving kaleidoscope of graphic animations automatically generated. Through a variety of interfaces including smartphones, the web and physical controllers located at Nathan Phillips Square, the public could influence the installation. In other words the City Hall’s windows were turned to pixels to create a giant interactive LED display. (more…)
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In May, we have reported on a competition by A Vision of Europe called The European prize 2008 for the best urban neighbourhood in Europe.
Now, we got a comment which advised us of the results of the competition (thanks to Bertille Amaudric from Fondation pour l’Architecture).
The International jury of the 2008 Philippe Rotthier European announced the TOP-10 urban neighbourhoods. The 88 selected neighbourhoods come from 30 European countries and from big cities such as Lisbon, Bilbao, Paris, London, Glasgow, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Bologna, Palermo, Tirana, Istanbul, etc., as well as from beautiful medium-size cities such as Santiago de Compostela, Hammamet, Gladbeck, Alessandria, Hoje Tarstrup, Knokke, Dorchester, Brandevoort, etc. Among the 88 entries selected, these are the best New Urban Neighbourhood built in Europe in the last 25 years: (more…)
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In 2008 a special monument celebrates its 50th anniversary. The monument we are talking about is the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.
Even though the Atomium was not intended to survive the Exhibition of 1958 and was originally planned to remain standing only six months, the monument has been an impressive and amazing sight of Brussels for 50 years.
Designed by the Belgian engineer André Waterkeyn for the International Exhibition of Brussels in 1958 the Atomium is a structure that is half way between sculpture and architecture, symbolising with the help of nine atoms a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. (more…)
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