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Nowadays we ought to call them modules with a design identity of their own, because in contemporary culture they sum up the principle of objects which are diversified yet standardised, even while maintaining the properties and image of reproducible, interpretable manufactures.
Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Surfaces™
ACTIVE, OUR COMMITMENT TO A BETTER WORLD
Fiandre and Iris Ceramica, within the framework of their research and innovation activities, have developed a new production method geared towards materials whose active principle helps to improve the quality of the environment.
Founded in 1898, ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
Urban benzene and population exposure
People aren't just at risk from carcinogenic benzene when they are out on city streets: sadly, the air is polluted also inside of buildings. Scientific research has demonstrated that, among all the materials for inside walls and floors, technical ceramics are the least pollution-prone.
The technical and aesthetic requirements of SPA
When building a spa, the choice of every element is important: from colour schemes to prestigious, resistant, effective materials like ceramics; from sound to lighting effects, which can be accentuated using special plasters.
Itineraries
Dubai is the capital of one of the seven states making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation created when Great Britain withdrew from the area in 1971. The city is characterised by its unique experimental architecture; an ongoing competition to build the tallest skyscraper, with the most unusual shape. One construction site after another continues to transform the desert of the Arab Emirates into artificial oases, and countless buildings or whole city districts are built on land reclaimed from the sea, such as the third residential mega-palm built in the waters of the Gulf.
from Area 65
Porto in four modern and contemporary architecture itineraries: designs before 1974, the masters, compositional abstraction and details of construction, overcoming barriers.
Berlin architectural itinerary
From Area 66
Berlin is without doubt one of the conduits of national and international currents. Scarcely anywhere else do such opposing views on architecture exist - with the consequence that planning and building in Berlin are extremely polarized.
Madrid architectural itinerary
From Area 67
Madrid is Europe's third largest city, after London and Paris, and is currently investing huge resources in construction - more than any other European city except Berlin.
London architectural itinerary
In dealing with the task to take a picture of contemporary architecture in London, we come across the dynamism with which sometimes whole areas become subject to radical changes.
Projects
The Panamà home: open and closed on the city
In San Paolo in Brazil, Marcio Kogan has designed a home that is also a gallery for exhibition of the client’s art collection, establishing links between inside and outside which reinterpret Brazil’s heritage of Modernism.
Mirador Viña Seña: the centre in the landscape
In his design for the viewpoint over the famous Chilean vineyards of Seña, Germàn del Sol does not fall into the cliché of eulogising wine as a luxury product but focuses visitors’ attention on the importance of the land in which the vines grow.
The Farewell Chapel: a door onto the land
OFIS Architects designed a chapel for the cemetery in a Slovenian village. The space for the monument was dug out of the hill, so that it looks like a natural extension of the land.
AH-Bräu architecture of the Southern Tyrol
The new AH-Bräu restaurant and brewery designed by Gerd Bergmeister in Sachsenklemme (Bolzano) uses contrasts and cross-references among different materials to underline and differentiate its functions, casting roots in the local soil without reducing itself to banal imitation.
The Blumenhotel is a four-star hotel with 110 rooms in St. Veit an der Glan, the City of Flowers near Klagenfurt, capital of Carinthia in Austria.
Materials:Eiffelgres Porcelain Stoneware
Design team: Spado Architects & Ogris.Wanek Architects
