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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.

19-06-2014

Outdoor pavements: thin tiles for laying over existing surfaces

Among Ariostea’s proposals for outdoor paved areas, CM2 high-tech porcelain tiles and 4.7 High Tech thin porcelain tiles are highly effective solutions permitting savings and easy maintenance without affecting the performance of the material.

28-05-2014

Fujiwarramuro Architects Residential Building in Minoh

The single-family home designed by Fujiwarramuro Architects in Minoh presents a contemporary interpretation of the doma, a key element in traditional Japanese architecture.

27-05-2014

Marble eco-synergies. Sustainable cultural project in Pietrasanta

A site-specific project in Pietrasanta, Italy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cosmave consortium has been turned into a vast sustainability festival.

23-05-2014

Megamicro: the innovation of big floor tiles

The big floor and wall tiles in Eiffelgress’s Megamicro collection reproduce the aesthetic qualities of natural stone in an eco-sustainable product suitable for contemporary interiors of all kinds.

21-05-2014

Vector Architects: Vanke Group exhibition centre in Bayuquan

Vector Architects have designed a contemporary multilevel building in Bayuquan, China, an exhibition centre for the Vanke real estate group which becomes part of the city’s waterfront. The materials chosen for the building’s cladding underline a compositional solution in which the boundaries between inside and outside are blurred.

09-05-2014

Robert M.Gurney FAIA Nevis Pool & Garden Pavilion

Robert M.Gurney FAIA Architect’s project mediates the transition between natural and artificial.

30-04-2014

David Chipperfield Nobel Center – "Nobelhuset" Stockholm

David Chipperfield Architects of Berlin, directed by architects David Chipperfield and Christoph Felger, has unanimously been chosen as the winner in the contest to design the Nobel Center – ‘Nobelhuset’ in Stockholm: the new headquarters of the prestigious Nobel Prize.