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04-12-2014

Stone floors for a religious building in Maremma

Ariostea’s stone-like floors put the finishing touches on the Benedictine monastery of the Siloe community in the Maremma country of Tuscany. This project by architect Edoardo Milesi falls somewhere between the historic, the contemporary and the natural, brought together by stone-like porcelain floors.

17-10-2014

Team CS: Rotterdam Centraal Station

Completed in 2014, Rotterdam's Centraal Station is an infrastructure connecting a number of different routes for accessing the city. This significant example of contemporary architecture was designed by the Team CS (Benthem Crouwel Architects, MVSA Meyer en van Schooten Architecten, West 8), winners of the competition held in 2003. The roof is covered with 130,000 solar cells.

25-08-2014

Rural, minimalism and tradition in a kitchen designed by Fabio Fantolino in Turin

A restaurant in an authentic, traditional vein with a touch of sophisticated pared-down design. Rural, designed by Fabio Fantolino and his team, draws its inspiration from the principles of the Slow Food movement.

19-08-2014

Indoor and outdoor porcelain floor and wall tiles

FMG’s porcelain tiles find the key to their aesthetic dimension in the home, where their performance is underlined: they are the ideal product for indoor and outdoor floors and walls, worked and finished using advanced techniques coming directly from ultra-pure natural stone

18-08-2014

Luis Pons Design Lab 4600 North Bay Road Residence Miami

The natural element: water, air, light and traditional materials such as wood and stone play a key role in the home designed by Luis Pons Design Lab.

13-08-2014

Romàn Cordero's cliff dwellings win a prize at Next Landmark 2014

Romàn Cordero and Izbeth Katia Mendoza Fragoso’s study of cliff dwellings won a prize on the Next Landmark 2014 international architecture contest. Cliff dwellings, the winner in the research category, is a model of a self-sufficient symbiotic structure permitting use of the planet’s vertical surfaces as a human habitat.

06-08-2014

Ellevuelle architetti’s Casa Esse wins the 2014 Next Landmark contest

The winner of the third Next Landmark international architecture contest organised by Floornature is Ellevuelle architetti of Italy, for Casa Esse, a new construction in the countryside near Forlì. Ellevuelle architetti drew their inspiration for the building’s linear layout from the artificial landmarks in the area.

03-07-2014

Elías Rizo Arquitectos, Casa TOC

A home made entirely out of local materials amidst the greenery of Tapalpa, Mexico offers an outstanding example of contemporary architecture rooted in the country's soil, nature and traditions.