NEWS
19-09-2018
Looking forward to CERSAIE 2018
September 24 through 28 Bologna hosts Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic...
18-09-2018
Hardel Le Bihan Social Housing in Paris
A compact building with a dynamic façade created by a dense grid of balconies at...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
19-09-2018
Mad Atelier at the London Design Festival with a pop-up pub
Reconstructing Lord Cecil is the name of the immersive installation created by Chantal Martinelli and Julien Desormeaux, the founders of Mad Atelier for the London Design Festival inside the Lord Cecil pub that had closed its doors 12 years earlier...
19-09-2018
Material of the Year exhibition at the London Design Fair
During the annual London Design Festival running in September 2018, the London Design Fair presents its second Material of the Year event...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A Documentary on: WORKac
In the wake of the interest expressed in the first three meetings for architecture fans...
PROJECTS
Projects
Batlle i Roig: landscape restoration of the Garraf waste landfill
Batlle i Roig worked from 2003 to redevelop the waste landfill site in the Vall d'en Joan, in the...
Architectural Solutions
The Bulgari shop in Kuala Lumpur, GRC and LEDs by MVRDV
The Bulgari shop in Kuala Lumpur is a reinvention in GRC and LEDs of the historical marble frames...
Mood
Maxfine roads: porcelain stoneware large tiles for indoor and outdoor spaces
Maxfine large tiles by FMG go well beyond the boundaries of the surfaces created for architecture...
Projects
West 57th Street: a new courtscraper by BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
West 57th Street is the building that stands for the new Manhattan, where buildings are giving way...
Architectural Solutions
A structure made of concrete and laminated timber for a bus shelter in Umeå, Sweden.
A concrete and timber bus shelter that hides interesting technological surprises under a simple yet...
Mood
Tradition and contemporaneity: the Aster Maximum big size tiles
With the maxi tiles of the GranitiFiandre Maximum collection, porcelain stoneware allows for new...
Projects
Westway Architects: Cantina Santa Margherita in Veneto
Italian studio Westway Architects has completed work on the Santa Margherita winery in Fossalta di...
Architectural Solutions
Concrete and a steel and glass bubble for the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, by HOK
The largest collection of works by Dalí outside Spain is preserved in St. Petersburg...
Mood
SapienStone: aesthetics and innovation of kitchen countertops
Porcelain stoneware is the best possible solution for kitchen countertops, from both a technical...
Architetti
Alessandro Mendini
With a distinctive career spanning more than forty years in design, architecture and art, Alessandro Mendini (1931) is one of Italy’s most prominent architects, designers and critics. His work ranges from creation of objects, furnishings, interiors, paintings and installations to architecture, and also includes significant theoretical work, both with the famous Studio Alchimia and with his brother Francesco, an architect, with whom he founded Atelier Mendini in 1989. Mendini came up with definitions of a number of theoretical concepts regarding historic design phenomena and movements (including “postmodern design” and “re-design”) and has made an essential contribution to their expression and critical analysis since the Seventies. He has been editor of Casabella (1970-1976) and Domus (1980-1985 e 2010-2011) and founded the magazines Modo (1977) and Ollo (1988). ....
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