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Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
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Humberto Hermeto
Founded in 1996, the office has worked on several projects in different scales. The office try to work with a wide range of collaborators to enhance the dialogue and consequently the results. Located in Belo Horizonte, it has projects in different brazilian states. Main projects 1997 – Praça da Bandeira (Bandeira´s Square) – National Competition – 1st prize (Belo Horizonte) 2001 – COHAB ....
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MBM Arquitectes
Deyan Sudjic writes in the prologue to his volume on MBM’s work, published in 2006 by RBA Editores, that studio MBM is not interested in creating aggressive, spectacular or “signature” architectural projects, but the value of their work lies in its recognisability and ability to express their cultural roots. The five partners who direct MBM (Martorell, Bohigas, Mackay, Capdevila and Gual) have a creative approach combining digital representation tools with freehand ....
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Massimo Iosa Ghini
One of the best-known Italian contemporary architects and designers, Massimo Iosa Ghini (1959) is a graduate of Milan Polytechnic. From the mid-1980s, he participated in the avant-garde currents of Italian and European design, first establishing the Bolidist group and later as a member of the important Memphis group with Ettore Sottsass. It was in this initial important period that his collection of upholstered furniture created for Moroso (1987) won the Roscoe Award. ....