Highlights of the week 02/ METALOCUS

15/10/2011. Highlights of the week. 15/10/2011
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO

Highlights of the week to remind the principal characters in METALOCUS.

This week, took the lead housing. On the occasion of, major film festival of architecture, AFFR in Rotterdam we recuperated the project about Il Girasole (Sunflower), a house on wheels. Also one of the few Metabolist projects built in Japan, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo 1969-72 , which is about to be demolished.

As players of the week, we had the housing project by Farshid Moussavi, winner its first project in La Defense, Paris. and we finished the week with two news; a new Thom Mayne's visit to our country, this time to Barcelona and the exceptional calendar of what promises to be one of the best weeks of architecture "Pilas Alcalaínas".

All the news and links below.