ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NEWS http://www.floornature.com Mon, 20 May 2013 09:52:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.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=8629&sez=1 Palazzo Madama hosts a retrospective of the work of famous photographer Elliott Erwitt, a selection of 136 of his most famous black and white photographs. ]]> Floornature Team News Mon, 20 May 2013 07:35:04 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8628&sez=1 Julien De Smedt Architects won the competition on invitation for construction of the "premier campus office" in Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey. ]]> Floornature Team News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:35:03 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8627&sez=1 Germany’s 2013 architecture prize has been presented to architects Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir and Oei of studio LRO. ]]> Floornature Team News Thu, 16 May 2013 07:35:02 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8626&sez=1 The home designed by Fujiwaramuro Architects in Muko, Japan follows the curve of the road with its fan shape. ]]> Floornature Team News Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:07 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8616&sez=1 Taizu restaurant, designed by Pitsou Kedem Architects in partnership with interior designers Sigal Baranowitz and Gali Amit, has opened. ]]> Floornature Team News Tue, 14 May 2013 07:35:02 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8615&sez=1 SURco reconstructs a building severely damaged by the February 27 2010 earthquake in Chile. ]]> Floornature Team News Mon, 13 May 2013 07:35:04 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8614&sez=1 IUSVE works with Floornature on the second edition of Next Landmark. Amedeo Bazzani, Chiara Reggiani and Federico Graziati are the students who will be taking care of contest communications in their project work. ]]> Floornature Team News Fri, 10 May 2013 08:39:08 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8613&sez=1 The anthological exhibition of the work of photographer Luigi Ghirri at Maxxi in Rome is a voyage of discovery of his artistic career and modus operandi. ]]> Floornature Team News Thu, 09 May 2013 07:35:09 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8612&sez=1 "Essential as matter" is the slogan summing up the concept underlying the new collection of 150x75 cm and 75x75 cm tiles recently unveiled by GranitiFiandre. ]]> Floornature Team News Wed, 08 May 2013 07:35:09 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/news-detail.php?id=8604&sez=1 Nemesi&Partners wins the international design competition for the Italian Pavilion at Expo2015. ]]> Floornature Team News Tue, 07 May 2013 07:35:05 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=8623&sez=31 At Mosbuild in Moscow, the best porcelain manufacturers showed off the excellence of Italian tiles, offering not only aesthetic pleasure but advanced production technology and free choice of sizes. From petrified wood ceramics to glossy marble-like porcelain, the choice of finishes was another surprise. ]]> Floornature Team Materials Tue, 07 May 2013 07:35:10 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=8496&sez=31 Cities and urban spaces can be reshaped using large-size porcelain tiles. Young designers from the Spatial Design Teamwork at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Brighton have shown us how through projects with a new take on city spaces. ]]> Floornature Team Materials Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:35:03 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=8418&sez=31 The ceramic floor and wall tiles in master chef Alessandra Spisni’s Vecchia scuola bolognese restaurant not only add character anchored in local traditions but improve the quality of the environment by reducing pollutants and the principal strains of bacteria thanks to the action of Titanium dioxide, in a process which is completely harmless for human health ]]> Floornature Team Materials Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:35:08 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=8372&sez=31 High-tech porcelain tiles are perfect for tying in big shopping centres with local traditions. The colours and performance of porcelain go perfectly with the innovative research in design dedicated to contemporary spaces for socialisation. ]]> Floornature Team Materials Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:35:05 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/tecnologie-detail.php?id=8312&sez=31 Ceramic flooring is, as everyone knows, made of up units of different sizes, and how they are presented to architects is very important, as it can suggest possible uses to them. At Cersaie, the international exhibition of ceramics for construction and bathroom furnishings, Ariostea proposed an innovative display space designed by Marco Porpora giving free rein to architects’ creative interpretation. ]]> Floornature Team Materials Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:35:16 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=8587&sez=30 Packed with symbolism relating to the natural world, Fernando Menis’s plan for the church of the Redeemer in Tenerife is a mountain with peaks and craters, earth broken up by telluric motions, a cavern with a spirit of its own. Architecture imitates landscape, with cement alluding to compact rock, cutting off the inside of the church from the outside world. ]]> Floornature Team Projects Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:10 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=8586&sez=30 French architect Christian Pottgiesser experiments with a new kind of dwelling for a family living in the countryside outside Paris, combining architecture with greenery. The project’s form and composition allow the concrete construction to fit into the big garden like a work of contemporary art. ]]> Floornature Team Projects Wed, 08 May 2013 07:35:11 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=8568&sez=30 Architects Prudenci Espanol Pons and José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano, finalists in the first international “Next Landmark” architecture contest organised by Floornature, presented their plans for a visitors’ centre for the “Roca dels Moros” rock paintings in El Cogul, Catalonia. The structure and materials of this partially underground construction are intended to minimise its impact on the landscape. ]]> Floornature Team Projects Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:34:57 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=8540&sez=30 By interpreting the design of a house like that of a city area or urban community, the FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol studio has deconstructed residential architecture into a series of functions, combining them according to paths and focusing on what links the separate parts. Their choice of building materials was vital: crossed plywood panels that reflect the environmental sustainability of the work. ]]> Floornature Team Projects Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:34:56 +0100 http://www.floornature.com/progetto.php?id=8539&sez=30 Architects Fernández -Vivancos and Abalosllopis have designed the Can Feliç nursery in Benicàssim in Spain. The architecture is the mouthpiece of the values it contains, creating a place for education and sharing. It has five pavilions around a covered courtyard and the greenery of a garden, which enters from perspective viewpoints. The materials chosen for the work were exposed concrete and decorative wood. ]]> Floornature Team Projects Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:34:53 +0100