Tag Turin

01-05-2012

Active tiles for the environment

“Disaster Recovery” projects are not only for distant places, but can be found right here in Italy, such as the reconstruction in the wake of the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo, where use of Graniti Fiandre’s Active tiles for “Il Bruco” nursery in Bazzano helps ensure a healthy environment.

17-04-2012

ACTIVE coverings for the “caterpillar” in Bazzano

The first school year is drawing to a close at the new elementary school and nursery school in Bazzano, a village just outside L’Aquila. The facility donated by the FIAT Group and designed by A.S. Architetti Associati was built using energy-saving and eco-sustainable technologies, including Wave Extreme tiles by GranitiFiandre, manufactured using the Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic production method.

19-08-2011

Sagittarius - 2011 Summer Horoscope

“Like many travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen” Benjamin Disraeli (writer and politician)

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.

30-03-2011

Lupi Migliore Servetto – Urban Project to celebrate the Unification of Italy

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, architects Italo Lupi, Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto designed a lighting project for the Mole Antonelliana tower and an urban communications project for the city of Turin, Italy’s first capital.

25-03-2011

Turin National Automobile Museum

A new National Automobile Museum opens in Turin to mark the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The renovation and expansion project is by architect Cino Zucchi, with installations by set designer François Cofino.

11-01-2011

Exhibition: PIER LUIGI NERVI. Architecture as a challenge

Pier Luigi Nervi, engineer, architect, structural designer, builder, writer and university professor, is the focus of an exhibition at the Maxxi in Rome until March 20 2011, the result of a partnership between the Maxxi Foundation, CIVA in Brussels and the Pier Luigi Nervi Association with the assistance of CSAC in Parma.