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ActiveTM 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.

 

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.

 

ASTM Test

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.

 

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.

 

Exterior flooring. Applications and benefits

Combining attractive appearance with practicality, reconciling the aesthetic demands of architecture with easy maintenance: these are increasingly important requirements of public and private clients for exterior tiles and floors. For this "skin", which must be visually attractive while offering great strength and durability, stone and porcelain tile offer increasingly advanced materials and technologies.

 

Itineraries

Dubai architectural itinerary

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.

Porto architectural itinerary

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

Tihany Design Westin Chosun, Seoul, 2008


Situated in Seoul's thriving business district, The Westin Chosun was the first western-style hotel in Korea when opened in 1914. Tihany Design redesigned the entire ground floor and basement levels.

Out/In, sofa, high easychair, low easychair, Philippe Starck with Eugeni Quitllet, Driade, 2009


A collection interpreting the desire for great continuity between the home and the world, between inside and outside. Featuring advanced industrial production and top quality aesthetics.

Morgan Library. New York. Renzo Piano. 2006


The library founded by the Morgan family in 1906 is located between Madison Avenue and 37th Street, in the very heart of Manhattan.

Lee-Chin Crystal. Toronto. Daniel Libeskind. 2007


The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto is a natural history museum which was founded in 1912 by the provincial government and Toronto University and became independent in 1968.

Akron Art Museum. Ohio. Coop Himmelb(l)au. 2007


The Akron Art Museum is a true institution of American and international art history, with a big collection boasting names like Andy Warol, Sol LeWitt and Frank Stella.