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30-03-2021

MoDusArchitects’ Renovation and expansion of Accademia Cusanus: Structures, Surfaces and Light

Following a design competition held in 2017, MoDusArchitects was appointed to renovate and expand Accademia Cusanus in Bressanone, Italy. The architects were asked to come up with a measured project that would leave the three existing buildings unaltered and create a new public space uniting the entire academic complex.

30-09-2020

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos designs Cité du Théâtre in Paris

The project designed by the Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and Marin + Trottin Architectes architecture studios was named as the winner of the competition for the construction of "La Cité du Théâtre". One of the most important projects of the Grand Paris initiative, the Cité will be set in the Ateliers Berthier built in 1895 by Charles Garnier, the famous architect of the Paris Opera. The project will bring together three famous French institutions from the world of culture: the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD), the Théâtre National de l'Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe and the Comédie-Française.

25-09-2018

Opening of Dallara Academy, Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia

All-round excellence: the new Dallara Academy building in Varano de' Melegari in Emilia Romagna officially opened to the general public on 21 September.

04-07-2018

Le KAAN Architecten Utopia Library and Academy of Performing Arts in Aalst, Belgium

Utopia, the Library and Academy of Performing Arts completed recently by KAAN Architecten, redesigns parts of the historic town centre of Aalst, underlining its urban context and incorporating a late nineteenth-century historic building into the new complex.

08-11-2017

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Art and Design Building, Bedales School, Hampshire

The students were involved in all stages in the planning of a new building to contain Art and Design classrooms and workshops at Bedales School, developed by the architects of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.

25-05-2017

Avasara Academy in Pune by Case Design

The Mumbai-based architecture firm, Case Design has been working on the project for the Avasara Academy near Pune since 2013.

05-05-2017

Awaiting the winner of the EU MIES AWARD 2017

The winner of the EU MIES AWARD 2017 and the winner of the Special Mention for an Emerging Architect will be announced in Brussels on 16th May. Floornature highlights the finalists and winners of the previous edition.

31-03-2017

A year without Zaha Hadid: an architect’s legacy

A year after the premature death of Zaha Hadid on March 31, 2016, here is a quick overview of a number of projects by one of the most controversial figures in contemporary architecture. The first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, her legacy for future generations was buildings of sculptural beauty that people either love or hate.

03-03-2017

Touring Spanish architecture with the SapienStone Truck

As we follow the SapienStone Truck’s #AroundTheTop tour introducing the Iris Ceramica Group’s new brand specialising in top quality porcelain kitchen countertops, we look back at a number of Spanish projects presented in the pages of Floornature and Livegreenblog.