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05-08-2011
Mazzanti: Timayui elementary school
Giancarlo Mazzanti’s plan for a new elementary school is based on the idea that architecture can become a tool for the rebirth of a neighbourhood, an instrument of social cohesion and of pride in belonging to a place. If the building also offers an example of optimal use of energy resources, the project is worth a mention in the Fassa Bortolo Prize for Sustainable Architecture.

12-07-2011
Torino, Architetture Rivelate award
“Architetture Rivelate” – Revealed Architectures - is an award presented annually since 2004 by the Order of Architects of Turin to encourage qualified demand in the city, a plaque for award-winning buildings to make good examples of architecture easily recognisable even to the non-expert eye.

11-07-2011
Dominique Coulon: Josephine Baker school
In La Courneuve, a Paris suburb undergoing social renewal under a new urban planning scheme, Dominique Coulon has designed a nursery school and elementary school over the ruins of a decaying apartment block which was demolished in 2004. The new project does not deny the history of the place but carries it forward in a design which draws on the memories of the site to give it is present orangey hue.

09-06-2011
Ettore Sottsass – Enamels, Vitra Design Museum Gallery
An exhibition of the work of Ettore Sottsass will inaugurate the new wing of the Vitra Design Museum, the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, in June.

27-05-2011
Karim Rashid’s "Università" station inaugurated in Naples
“Università” station on line 1 of the metro in Naples designed by architect and designer Karim Rashid opened recently.

11-05-2011
Architect Christian Hauvette is dead
Christian Hauvette, the French architect who won the Grand Prix national de l'architecture in 1991, died in hospital of a heart attack.

28-02-2011
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER #3: Italian architecture abroad
SPAZIOFMGPERLARCHITETTURA, Iris Ceramica and FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti’s gallery, inaugurates its 2011 calendar of events with the exhibition ITALIANS DO IT BETTER #3, dedicated to quality Italian architectural projects abroad.

04-02-2011
Indoor pollution: information and prevention
Elisir di Salute magazine and Graniti Fiandre have organised a convention intended primarily for design professionals, physicians and the media to increase awareness of an important but often ignored aspect of pollution: indoor pollution.