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30-09-2011

Rudolf Steiner - Alchemy of the everyday

The Vitra Design Museum holds its first major retrospective of the work of Rudolf Steiner to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.

27-09-2011

Kazuyo Sejima, Kengo Kuma - CERSAIE 2011

A meeting with Kengo Kuma and a Lectio magistralis by Kazuyo Sejima are among the key attractions at this year’s CERSAIE, scheduled for September 20 through 24 2011 at Bologna Fiere.

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.

28-07-2011

Burger – Rudacs, Centre of Puez-Odle Nature Park

The plan by Stefan Burger & Birgit Rudacs architects has won a GranitiFiandre special prize in the 2011 Dedalo Minosse International Prize.

25-07-2011

Peters + Keller, school buildings in Bressanone

GranitiFiandre, sponsor of the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building, has assigned 4 special prizes to works commissioned in the province of Bolzano.

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.