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21-10-2020

Claudio Beltrame designs the new ski school in Tarvisio

The new ski school in Tarvisio, designed by the Architetto Beltrame Claudio firm of architects, challenges traditional alpine architectural assumptions and reinterprets the classic chalet. The result is a small landmark that plays on the material nature and symbolism of wood as well as on the dynamics of skiing itself.

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.

13-08-2020

MO de Movimiento, a masterful makeover in Madrid

MO de Movimiento is a smart conversion of what was once Madrid’s Espronceda Theatre and part of the old EFE News Agency. Owned by Proyectos Conscientes, the restaurant was crafted by Gonzalo Machado and Mafalda Muñoz with conceptual designer Lucas Muñoz, and is heavily geared towards sustainability, social responsibility and inclusion.

03-07-2020

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 of the forest and made of glulam, rammed earth and concrete.

09-06-2020

2020 Prix d'excellence en architecture, Quebec

The Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) announced the winners of its awards of excellence and distinctions for 2020 online, during a live, interactive gathering. This year’s Grand Prix d’excellence went to the Espace Paddock, designed by Les architectes FABG.

01-06-2020

Art Villas, a resort in Costa Rica designed by Formafatal

The small, Art Villas resort sits in the lush Costa Rican jungle. A comfortable fit with its natural context, the architecture designed by the multidisciplinary studio, Formafatal, founded by Dagmar Stepanova, is based on a connection between indoors and outdoors and a very pure formal language.

14-04-2020

DYS Design Your Slabs: decorate and customise ceramic slabs for all kinds of spaces

Decoration is seeing a new phase of technical and expressive evolution thanks to DYS - Design Your Slabs, the Iris Ceramica Group’s innovative digital on-demand service. Residential, commercial and public spaces of all kinds can now be decorated with images or illustrations on ceramic maxi-slabs and appropriate submultiples. DYS is a new form of design aesthetics and communication that gives free rein to the imagination, permitting maximum customisation of design

13-04-2020

RED Arquitectos is behind Traspatio, a refurbishment in Puebla

Susana López and her team from RED Arquitectos completed the Traspatio project in Puebla, Mexico. A community project that rehabilitates a 19th-century building with a clever combination of historical and contemporary elements for an eye-catching, socially significant operation that injects new life into the neighbourhood.

03-04-2020

Jané Winestore by External Reference with Chu Uroz

A venue that’s all about wine and other alcoholic beverages: Jané Winestore in Tarragona, Spain is the project by architect Carmelo Zappulla from External Reference with designer Chu Uroz for Jané Grup, a leading Spanish wine, liquor and fine food organisation. A dynamic project with pop overtones.