Tag Cement

04-12-2018

Design ideas for 2019: customising spaces with the neutral hues of Musa+

The neutral colours of GranitiFiandre’s Musa+, including the new Dune and Shadow versions presented at Cersaie along with the innovative Honed finish, are ideal for covering surfaces in spaces of contemporary design, suggesting new sources of inspiration for floors and walls. All while permitting contamination of different styles and the utmost customisation, thanks to a great variety of available shapes, including decorative pieces, hexagons and lozenges

20-11-2018

New inspiration for the minimalist style: Ariostea’s CON.CREA. and Blend.HT

Ariostea presented its new collections of cement/resin-effect and stone-effect porcelain at Cersaie 2018. The five conventional sizes of the CON.CREA. collection and the new Blend.HT maxi-slab offer the ideal solution for today’s homes in sophisticated minimalist style, with a high-impact colour palette of deep, natural hues that are perfect for design and have plenty of potential for application in interiors, exteriors and furnishings

19-11-2018

AL BORDE, The House of the Flying Beds

The Ecuador-based architecture collective Al Borde has reconstructed an old, dilapidated 18th-century house in the town of Ibarra.

08-11-2018

Atelier Jean Nouvel The Marseillaise Marseille

The Marseillaise, Jean Nouvel’s new building on the Marseille waterfront, opened at the end of October 2018. Its painted concrete facade contains about 30 different hues of blue, white and red, blending with the sky and the red roofs of the city.

30-10-2018

BIOTOPE, the new project by SHJWORKS

Biotope is a new project by SHJWORKS in Copenhagen, a three-year-long experiment with a microcosm of plants and insects in an exposed part of the city - a small green lot on a busy intersection, where the Danish studio has crafted a corner of self-sustaining life.

30-10-2018

Ground and Downtown: new IRIS collections for contemporary spaces

IRIS Ceramica was inspired by cement to create the Ground and Downtown porcelain tile collections, on view among the latest new design trends at Cersaie 2018. Using the neutrality of the principal building material as their starting point, the Ground and Downtown collections explore all the different hues, details and patterns that can exalt the material and space, making surfaces the key to today’s increasingly exclusive, refined and eclectic spaces

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.

24-09-2018

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group and the new noma in Copenhagen

The award-winning restaurant noma worked with BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group to create its new home just outside downtown Copenhagen.