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27-03-2013

François: “Urban college”, social housing in France

Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, sees the completion of the Urban Collage complex, designed by Maison Edouard François. The architect is famous in France and worldwide for his green architecture. Here, as in his recent work in the area of Les Vignoles in the capital, François reflects on the existing types of buildings present on site: his new social housing is a project that derives from the overlap of forms already present in the town’s memory.

18-03-2013

Milano Work in progress #5 Gioiaotto at SpazioFMG

SPAZIOFMGPERL’ARCHITETTURA, the Milan gallery of Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti, presents the designs for redevelopment of the building at number 6-8 via Melchiorre Gioia, designed by Marco Zanuso and Pietro Crescini in the late '60s.

16-01-2013

Camps-Felip: Ferreries Cultural Centre in Tortosa

The projects discovered and acknowledged by Floornature’s international Next Landmark contest include redevelopment of the market in Ferreries, a neighbourhood in Tortosa, Catalonia, by architects Josep Camps Povill and Olga Felip Ordis, which earned an honourable mention for first project. The old building was restored and converted into a cultural centre, with the addition of a new volume linking it with the square outside.

19-12-2012

Elisa Minari: Vivenda para todos

The winner of the prize for “Research” in the first international architecture contest held by Floornature under the title “Next Landmark”, Elisa Minari, has come up with a plan for owner-built homes in the most disadvantaged urban areas in the megalopolises of the “south” of the world.

28-11-2012

Souto de Moura: school in Portalegre

Eduardo Souto de Moura has designed a school of hotel management in Portalegre, as unostentatious as any of his buildings, located in the former Robinson industrial complex. The project draws on the Portuguese architectural heritage and presents it in a contemporary form suggesting a new definition of the landscape.

08-11-2012

An urban redevelopment show. Lights/out Pasubio.

The professional association of architects in the Province of Parma, organised a night to show off the potential of an old industrial building, whose suggestive spaces are waiting for a new use.

07-11-2012

Reusing a water tower: light and design.

A water tower in Solingen, Germany has gone through a complete metamorphosis.