ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NEWS http://www.floornature.com Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://wwwfloor.floornature.eu/images/barra-footer.jpg http://www.www.floornature.com Feed provided by FLOORNATURE. Click to visit. http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7842&sez=1 In the autumn of 2011 the Oberalp-Salewa group inaugurated its new headquarters in Bolzano, designed by the studios of Cino Zucchi Architetti and Park Associati. ]]> Floornature Team Wed, 16 May 2012 11:10:57 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7841&sez=1 By the end of 2012 MVRDV will complete its project for a multipurpose building in Schijndel square with printed glass walls. ]]> Floornature Team Tue, 15 May 2012 07:35:09 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7840&sez=1 The Dutch architects of UNStudio’s new project in Singapore is a residential skyscraper combining all the different experiences and possibilities offered by a city neighbourhood in a single building. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 14 May 2012 07:35:09 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7826&sez=1 The new single-family home designed by 1100 Architect is a building employing today’s sustainable technologies with respect for its magnificent natural surroundings. ]]> Floornature Team Fri, 11 May 2012 07:35:09 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7825&sez=1 In House 712, a private residence, the architects of H ARQUITECTES have reduced the design to its basic elements and worked with a tightly controlled budget. ]]> Floornature Team Thu, 10 May 2012 07:35:15 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7821&sez=1 A new project by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group redraws the Vancouver skyline. ]]> Floornature Team Wed, 09 May 2012 07:35:13 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7801&sez=1 The Cinema Center designed by Wolf D. Prix/COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and opened last year is a new kind of building in which open space is combined with spaces for entertainment and cultural events. ]]> Floornature Team Tue, 08 May 2012 07:35:10 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7800&sez=1 Three towers linked by a large terrace 191 metres above the ground: this is the image that first strikes us of Marina Bay Sands, the futuristic hotel designed by Moshe Safdie in Singapore. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 07 May 2012 07:35:10 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7798&sez=1 The new residence designed by the architects of BROOKS + SCARPA sets the new standard for residential architecture in West Hollywood. ]]> Floornature Team Fri, 04 May 2012 07:35:13 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=7844&sez=1 Entries in the Floornature International Architecture Contest will be judged by an international pool of experts. ]]> Floornature Team Thu, 03 May 2012 09:41:48 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=6886&sez=31 Materials are basic components of architectural design, and their form, whether traditional or high-tech, express a building’s aesthetic continuity. ]]> Floornature Team Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:15:39 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=6857&sez=31 The effect of porcelain stoneware surfaces used in interior decoration underlines the theatrical aspects of everyday life. ]]> Floornature Team Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:15:38 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=5447&sez=31 Visual marketing theories use showroom space to put ceramic tiles in the spotlight. ]]> Floornature Team Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:35:17 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=5366&sez=31 The evolution of wall and floor covering units has preserved traditional form while using technology to transform appearance. ]]> Floornature Team Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:16:03 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=5230&sez=31 Surfaces, architectural elements banally conceived of as horizontal and vertical, play an important role in the history of perception, in that they cover buildings and thereby augment our spatial perception of them. ]]> Floornature Team Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:37:18 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=7093&sez=30 Inaugurated on June 25 2011, Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was built around the symbols of the sea and sports that make Biarritz the top tourist destination in Basque France. Competition winner Steven Holl uses the shape of the coastline as his starting point for creation of an underground museum, the roof of which becomes a plaza from which to admire the ocean. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:34:51 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=7107&sez=30 Giancarlo Mazzanti and Felipe Mesa have built a community centre in Medellin, Colombia which fits into a series of works sharing the common theme of a focus on social value, on the life of the city and the integration of its people. Characterised by varied repetition of a pattern, the roof is a symbol of the creative standardisation apparent in the two architects’ recent projects. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:34:51 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=7106&sez=30 In 2011 an eight-level apartment building was constructed in Place de la Bastille in Paris, designed by BP Architecture. The project is characterised by the façades: the wall over the square is a glass sunshade, while the side walls are made of modular panels with variable inclinations and coloured inserts. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:34:51 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=7092&sez=30 As part of the project for renewal of the ancient Eilandje district, where many well-known architectural studios have been working recently, such as David Chipperfield’s studio, the architects of Neutelings Riedijk have built the city’s new museum of history overlooking the Schelda River, where the vocabulary of the materials dematerialises the tower volume and makes it stand out against the constructions of the harbour as a new landmark for the city. ]]> Floornature Team Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:34:51 +0100