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08-05-2018

Le Corbusier: The promise and challenge of Chandigarh.

The urban plan of Chandigarh, a city established in the early ’50s following India’s proclamation of independence from the British Empire, represented Le Corbusier’s highly utopian personal vision of urban planning.

09-02-2018

Palermo, city of inclusion of art and architecture

Palermo is 2018 Cultural Capital and hosts Manifesta 12, the European Contemporary Art Biennial, this year.

16-09-2016

In discovery of the work of Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban

Seventh Japanese architect awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2014 An unusual but important itinerary to discover a different side of architecture. Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize for architecture, is known as the architect who works with cardboard, bamboo, cloth, recycled plastic and paper by-products and locally available materials. Shigeru Ban’s architecture is lightweight, and can be taken apart and taken elsewhere, primarily to house refugees, providing relief to innocent victims of civil wars and natural disasters. Innovation and empathy: architecture which is designed not to make a profit but to respond to humanitarian causes. In the words of Renzo Piano, who became the second Italian architect to receive a Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1998, “architecture is a service, an art that makes things we need”

25-03-2016

The most popular itineraries on Floornature's social networks

At this time of spring festivities and holidays, we take a look at the Floornature itineraries that have attracted the most attention among fans on the portal's social network pages.