Tag Refurbishment

13-12-2019

Golden Pin Design Award 2019, and the winner is...sustainability

On 5 December, the Golden Pin Design Award - the international design award that celebrates products or projects expressly created for Chinese-speaking communities - announced the 30 Best Design winners and 2 Special Annual Award winners for Circular Design and Social Design.

18-11-2019

EXPO 67 Montreal, redevelopment by Lemay

The Canadian firm Lemay is a leading provider of integrated design services for the built environment and has now worked its magic on the 1967 International and Universal Exposition or EXPO 67 site in Montreal, Canada. The design team has given the site original heart a total makeover as the new Espace 67, and their concept blends the enchanting natural setting and rich historic past of this exceptional site, to give the city a truly versatile space.

14-08-2019

Tabanlioglu Architects Beyazit State Library Istanbul

Tabanlıoğlu Architects completes the restoration of one of the largest and oldest libraries in Istanbul, the Beyazit State Library. Founded in 1884, inside a 16th century building, the library houses more than 25,000 books and rare manuscripts. The project is one of the finalists in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

12-08-2019

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu PC Caritas, an experimental space in Melle

In the Flemish province of East Flanders, in the town of Melle, the architectural firm De Vylder Vinck Taillieu has transformed the Sint-Jozef building, located in the centre of the Caritas campus, into a new and experimental public space for discovering and defining new possible ways of living.

20-06-2019

Layering Courtyard in Beijing by ARCHSTUDIO

With its project called “Layering Yard”, ARCHSTUDIO has reinvented a traditional industrial building and quadrangle near Beijing’s historic Qianmen gate.

11-04-2019

Ignazio Gardella, rationalist gems in Alessandria

During one of the open days organised by FAI – the National Trust for Italy – when the general public can visit architectural monuments that are normally off-limits, the church of the former tuberculosis sanatorium in Alessandria very first building designed by Ignazio Gardella, one of Italy's great 20th century architects Ignazio Gardella was one of Italy's most important and influential architects and designers in the 1900s but very few people are familiar with his first work - the church of the “Sanatorio Antitubercolare Vittorio Emanuele III”, the old tuberculosis sanatorium, now the “Centro Riabilitativo Polifunzionale Teresio Borsalino”, a multipurpose rehabilitation centre in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont.

01-02-2019

Renovation of a ward in Bufalini Hospital, Cesena

Iris Ceramica supplied materials to the company that installed the flooring and wall coverings in the renovation of a number of wards at Maurizio Bufalini Hospital in Cesena. The project was performed by the building design and development office of the Romagna public health unit. Iris Ceramica “Active” surfaces activated with titanium dioxide improve air quality in the hospital.

09-01-2019

STEPS, dance academy in Panama City

The Panama-based architecture firm SKETCH, founded by Johann Wolfschoon has turned the top floor of an industrial shed in Panama City into a dance academy with studio rooms for dance and other dance-related disciplines as well as changing rooms.