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14-07-2020
Maurizio Lai - Light installations and geometries for a restaurant project
Architect Maurizio Lai designed a project characterised by light installations, colours...
13-07-2020
Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond complete the new Assen Station
A new and iconic triangular wooden roof is the trademark of the new Assen Station, which...
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14-07-2020
GRAFT completes Charlie Living in Berlin
Charlie Living by GRAFT is the largest predominantly residential new build project in Friedrichstadt, in direct proximity to what used to be Checkpoint Charlie. This is an open set of four new buildings standing in one of the last empty spaces along the former strip of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin Mitte.
13-07-2020
Villa Copenhagen, refurbishment and reuse
London-based firm, Goddard Littlefair, has transformed the public areas of the Central Post and Telegraph Head Office, a listed, iconic building in Copenhagen, initially built in 1912. It is now known as Villa Copenhagen, and it has been converted into a standout landmark hotel.
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A documentary on: GCA Architects
SpazioFMG per l’Architettura continues the series dedicated to the most innovative...
PROJECTS
Projects
Ostana’s Mizoun de la Villo and the rebirth of a village
Mizoun de la Villo is part of the process of regeneration of the Alpine community of Ostana, in the...
Architectural Solutions
Mecanoo’s brick homes in Manchester
A brick building completes a major urban renewal project in Manchester’s Hulme quarter...
Ceramic Innovation
The best way of organising outdoor spaces: porcelain surfaces
The key goal of outdoor design is creating extremely relaxing spaces. The advanced performance of...
Projects
TA-CHA Design: Binary Wood House, Pak Chong, Thailand
Next to Khao Yai national park, a very popular tourist attraction near Bangkok, is a project...
Architectural Solutions
TAO’s Forest Building of glulam, rammed earth and concrete
TAO’s Forest Building in Grand Canal Forest Park, near Beijing, China, is inspired by the trees...
Ceramic Innovation
Ultra Onici: the beauty and versatility of Ariostea maxi-slabs
Living in an ideal environment, custom-tailored to our everyday needs, is the top priority of the...
Projects
WALL Architectural Bureau for Rasario: not a showroom, but rather a “multifunctional urban space”
WALL Architectural Bureau has created a new showroom in Smolenskaya Square, Moscow for Rasario, a...
Architectural Solutions
A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel by LAPS arquitectos
A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel has made Montevideo’s mid-twentieth-century...
Ceramic Innovation
Resistant, hygienic, inalterable SapienStone Calacatta countertops play a starring role in the kitchen
Calacatta is a bright, variegated surface that never goes out of style. The SapienStone kitchen...
Architetti
Ricardo Bofill - RBTA
The son of an architect, Ricardo Bofill (1939) was born in Barcelona and graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Barcelona and School of Geneva. Considered one of the greatest representatives of post-modernist design, for almost 60 years Bofill has been at the forefront of numerous international projects with the Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), founded by him in 1963. The RBTA studio, whose headquarters is a former cement plant called “La Fabrica”, brings together not only the interdisciplinary work of designers, engineers, planners and mathematicians, but also artists such as poets, sculptors and painters, in addition to sociologists, film-makers and philosophers. Initially, his construction practice created many mixed-use residences and buildings reminiscent of the characteristic, artisan features of traditional Catalan architecture. Bofill then turned to issues inherent in local urban planning, within a Spanish social ....
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