NEWS
18-01-2019
Open Future: Matera as 2019 European Cultural Capital
Celebrations on a vast scale will be held in Matera, the city of the “Sassi”,...
17-01-2019
Architecture and nature as medical treatment: Snøhetta’s Outdoor Care Retreat
The treatment for extended care patients in some of Norway’s most important hospitals...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
18-01-2019
Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, Ualà co-working in Buenos Aires
The architects of the Argentine studio Hitzig Militello Arquitectos have constructed Ualà, the premises of an important IT office in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A Documentary on: FXCollaborative
The last event of the year in The Architects Series begins on 13 December at SpazioFMG...
PROJECTS
Projects
Taller de Arquitectura de Bogotá: San José nursery school in Cajicá
San José nursery school in Cajicá, Colombia, inherits the idea of an educational...
Architectural Solutions
Tingbjerg library, a COBE project with a brick baguette façade
COBE’s Tingbjerk library is a provocative and seductive brick-faced prism that goes beyond...
Ceramic Innovation
Porcelaingres: The new Great Metastone large size
Colours inspired by stone cover ceramic surfaces for contemporary and traditional spaces....
Projects
JKMM: Amos Rex, a new underground museum in Helsinki
JKMM takes a radical approach to the expansion of the Amos Anderson Art Museum in central Helsinki....
Architectural Solutions
AREP expansion of Montpellier railway station using ETFE
The expansion of Montpellier railway station spans the tracks with pointed arches covered with...
Ceramic Innovation
Marble, stone, resin and cement effects: ceramics from Fiandre and Aqua Maximum
In continuity with the company’s decade-long history, in 2019 Fiandre once again offers new...
Projects
Snøhetta+DIALOG: new central library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Assiduously used by half the population of the city of Calgary, in Canada, the central library now...
Architectural Solutions
MVRDV’s Crystal House: a glass brick façade.
The glass bricks of MVRDV’s Crystal House unexpectedly blend with masonry bricks, and are even...
Ceramic Innovation
SapienStone: the best surfaces for the kitchen countertop in 2019
Porcelain is the best solution for surfaces for everyday use. The many applications of porcelain...
Architetti
MVRDV
MVRDV is a Dutch architectural studio founded in Rotterdam in 1993: the name is formed of the initials of the founding partners, Winy Maas (1959), Jacob van Rijs (1964) and Nathalie de Vries (1965). Internationally active in all fields of architecture and urban planning, the studio has a mission for design with the involvement of clients, stakeholders and professionals, who work together right from the early stages of the creative process. The three architects combined their efforts after their success at the Berlin European Competition, and for the past two decades they have pursued an intense teaching career, giving lectures, seminars and workshops as instructors and visiting professors at numerous academies and institutes of architecture. The project that first brought them to the world’s attention was the headquarters of NTR (Net3, 1994-1997), one of the principal Dutch radio and television ....
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Sauerbruch Hutton M9 multimedia museum of the twentieth century in Mestre, Venice
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