NEWS
26-06-2019
London Iris Ceramica Group opens its first showroom
Iris Ceramica Group’s new and first London showroom is housed in an elegant building...
25-06-2019
Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion project unveiled
A landscape that lives inside and outside the building itself: with these words architect...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
26-06-2019
GLASSTRESS 2019 at the 58th Art Biennale in Venice
The sixth edition of GLASSTRESS, a project by Adriano Berengo that expresses his idea of combining the Murano glass tradition with contemporary art, is one of the fringe events of the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia...
25-06-2019
Jacques Ferrier Architecture and Sensual City Studio complete T20 in Xujiahui, China
Jacques Ferrier Architecture and Sensual City Studio have together turned an office building with parking lots into an opportunity to radically shake up the surrounding urban neighbourhood of Xujiahui in Shanghai...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A documentary on: SHoP Architects
From 7.00 pm, SHoP Architects co-founder, Corie...
PROJECTS
Projects
Bureau de Change: Step house, refurbishment in London
The Step house project by Bureau de Change develops the internal layout and relationship with the...
Architectural Solutions
The Lego House designed by BIG is made of concrete and steel
The Lego House designed by BIG in Billund is a building inspired by the famous plastic bricks, but...
Ceramic Innovation
Dark kitchen countertops for every style of contemporary kitchen
With their charming and elegant mood, SapienStone’s dark-coloured kitchen countertops...
Projects
Dar Arafa Architecture: Al Abu Stait Mosque in Basuna, Egypt
The new Al Abu Stait mosque in Basuna, Egypt, has a skylight roof and a dome of great interest from...
Architectural Solutions
The cast aluminium façade for the Nieto and Sobejano Museum in San Sebastian
A museum made of cement at the foot of a rocky hill and running behind an ancient Renaissance...
Ceramic Innovation
FMG Twenty and Twenty+: practical solutions for external flooring
With summer just around the corner, FMG’s technical ceramic slabs make it possible to rethink...
Projects
2b architectes: Apartments for the elderly in Sugiez, Switzerland
Having won the tender launched by the Coopérative d’habitation du Vully, 2b architectes...
Architectural Solutions
The concrete distillery that looks like wood by Avanto Architects
Avanto Architects have created a distillery for a famous company which produces gin whose unusual...
Ceramic Innovation
The ideal home: Soft Concrete tile solutions
Perfect both inside and out for a host of different furnishing styles, Soft Concrete floor and wall...
Architetti
Manuelle Gautrand
Manuelle Gautrand’s poetics are characterised by a combination of colour with formal invention aimed at arousing empathy and marvel. Born in 1961, Gautrand founded her practice in Lyon in 1991 then moved to Paris two years later. Her most recent projects are formal and spatial research projects with a strong impact on the world of public architecture. For Gautrand, the process of design requires the creative boldness to change the criteria we work with on the basis of our goals. As Alice Laguarda says in a critical text, Guatrand’s work explores the crisis of modernity, in which our society is divided between aspirations for the future and nostalgia for the past, operating in the direction of bold “disobedience”. Manuelle Guatrand Architecture is now a practice including 20 architects working for public and private ....
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