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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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Tsuyoshi Tane Architects
Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect based in Paris. He graduated from Hokkaido Tokai University in 2002 and gained professional experience in London, Denmark, and Japan. He founded Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in 2017, after co-founded DGT. in 2006 in Paris. He is recognised for a series of award-winning projects and buildings including the Estonian National Museum (2016), Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (2020), Kofun Stadium of Japanese Olympic 2020 (2012), ....
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Frank Owen Gehry
Born in Toronto in 1929, Frank Owen Gehry moved to Los Angeles in 1947, where he first studied art and then devoted himself to architecture, earning his degree in 1954. In the early years he worked for Victor Gruen Associates and then studied urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Gehry’s work is situated in the postmodernist current and in Deconstructivism, of which he is unanimously recognized as one of the leading exponents. In his buildings, the ....
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Shigeru Ban
Born in Tokyo in 1957, Shigeru Ban attended the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Cooper Union School of Architecture where he graduated in 1984 while working for Arata Isozaki. In 1985, he opened his own firm in Tokyo and began a busy professional, teaching and scientific career. He was Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Yokohama National University for five years and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Nihon University for four years. He ....