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13-03-2012

ABDR, Parco della Musica e della Cultura di Firenze (Music and Cultural District in Florence)

The new Opera Theatre which opened in Florence in December is only one of the projects included in a new Music and Cultural District designed by architectural studio ABDR, winners of the international competition.

27-02-2012

Eiffelgres for Moscow paediatric clinic

The design team coordinated by architect Alexander Asadov has chosen Eiffelgres floor and wall tiles for Moscow’s new paediatric clinic.

12-12-2011

Landscaping: making land enjoyable

The term Landscaping, or landscape architecture, brings to mind English-style historic parks and gardens and, why not, one’s own back garden.

23-11-2011

The luxury of porcelain stoneware for exteriors

By the swimming pool, on the patio, under the arcades, on the belvedere: in all outdoor architectural features, porcelain stoneware blends into its natural surroundings to create a discrete, sober effect that is decidedly associated with today’s new luxury.

21-11-2011

Porcelain stoneware for the new bathroom space

Ceramic tiles as items of décor in today’s new bathrooms: examples of how porcelain stoneware is keeping up with the times in wellness.

10-11-2011

Barozzi-Veiga: home of Ribera del Duero

Founded in 2004, the Italian/Spanish practice of Barozzi-Veiga, which recently completed Aguilas auditorium in Spain, converted and expanded a former medieval hospital which is now a winery and centre for the promotion of the locale red wine, “Ribera del Duero”. The architects' successful choice of materials and compositional sensibility won the project the Barbara Cappochin Prize for Architecture.