Tag Expo

16-09-2016

In discovery of the work of Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban

Seventh Japanese architect awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2014 An unusual but important itinerary to discover a different side of architecture. Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize for architecture, is known as the architect who works with cardboard, bamboo, cloth, recycled plastic and paper by-products and locally available materials. Shigeru Ban’s architecture is lightweight, and can be taken apart and taken elsewhere, primarily to house refugees, providing relief to innocent victims of civil wars and natural disasters. Innovation and empathy: architecture which is designed not to make a profit but to respond to humanitarian causes. In the words of Renzo Piano, who became the second Italian architect to receive a Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1998, “architecture is a service, an art that makes things we need”

27-06-2014

Milano Design Film Festival 2014

MiCue Milano Design offers a prize for new film projects at the second Milano Design Film Festival, scheduled for October 9 - 12 2014. Floornature will be media partner at the event.

09-06-2014

UNStudio Qingdao World Horticultural Expo Theme Pavilion, Qingdao

UNStudio designed the Theme Pavilion for World Horticultural Expo 2014, coming up in the Chinese city of Qingdao April through October 2014.

05-06-2014

#floornaturelive in Venice – Alpitecture meets Biennale

It's preview time at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and the editorial staff has started the #floornaturelive tour with the event “Alpitecture meets Biennale. Topographic structure” in Palazzo Bollani.

30-05-2014

Alpitecture meets Biennale. Topographic structure at the 2014 Biennale in Venice

The 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice will host numerous related events, including “Alpitecture meets Biennale. Topographic structure” at Palazzo Bollani in Venice, an exhibition combining handcrafts from the South Tyrol with architectural excellence from the region and beyond.

28-05-2014

Identità Milano exhibition - Triennale di Milano

The exhibition presents the results of studies conducted by the Brand Milano Committee and the Triennale to understand how the city of Milan represents itself to the public and how it will be perceived by the public at Expo 2015. The installation is designed by architect Michele De Lucchi.

20-05-2014

#NextLandmark2014. An architecture contest that takes you to the Venice Biennale.

Next Landmark 2014 is a contest with three categories inviting architects, engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, designers and photographers of any age to take up the challenge of contemporary living.

20-05-2014

Rho: a changing land

Thomas Pagani puts his education in Environmental Sciences to work to lay bare the land on the edges of our big cities. His study entitled “Confini”, meaning “Borderlines”, focuses on the Rho area northwest of Milan, the site of the new trade fair district that will host Expo 2015: a land that is undergoing major change with important social repercussions. Here, the image object is a document, a reproduction of reality that both attracts and disconcerts viewers, bringing them into contact with their own ethics and posing visual questions which demand a response. His images do not turn the eye away, but put it in focus, drawing our attention to the lines, fragments and details of the history of the local area that has been interrupted to give way to the future by placing them in the centre of the composition. Thus the author casts light on the area and how it has changed, crudely underlining that which remains. The study focuses primarily on time, in all its brutal beauty, because time does not stop, not even for the instant in which the photograph is taken. Thomas Pagani therefore expresses through his photographs the three components that make up the image: the past, which always leaves a trace, the present, shown as reality, and the future, which will soon also be dissolved in new borderlines. Paolo Schianchi http://www.thomaspagani.com