Viale Fulvio Testi is steeped in centuries-old history, it has connected Milan to the surrounding hinterland for decades. Generali SGR offices are located alongside this major stretch of road in Milan. In 2019, the company decided to give its spaces a more innovative look. The architectural renovation (renamed “Testi 280”) was carried out by Studio D2U – Design to Users ...
PRATOPRATICO® is a modular grid for outdoors which allows the realization of driveway and walkway lawns, with grass or gravel finishing. This products is really adaptable thanks to its exclusive double profile: thinner on one side (driveway destination) and thicker on the other (pedestrian destination), satisfying functional and aesthetic needs in the best possible way,...
Dekton is an ultra-compact material, which means unique mechanical properties, such as minimal porosity, maximum resistance, no expansion, and virtually endless possibilities in terms of design. Together with its Carbon Neutral certification and its energy efficiency properties, it is the most complete surface available on the market. Dekton transforms your facade into f...
With its eleven floors, the Ellipse tower was conceived as an urban beacon. Its façade is decked out in Terreal glazed cladding with very neutral contemporary colours hanging in an alignment with the brick of workers’ houses. In the plan the route of the façade along the boulevard is convex. It’s an elliptical section. While at the back of the alley, it draws a concave c...
The tanks for rainwater collection and dispersion are installations suitable to collect rainfall peaks, allowing sewage and water treatment plants to work at the most constant regime with unquestionable economic benefits and operating efficiency, even in peak load situations. Atlantis System by Daliform Group is the ideal solution to create tanks for rainwater collectio...
In this house located in Germany a domestic routine takes place. The building embraces the spectator to discover not only a new style of parking but also of feeling. The tour of the House wants to be a sonic exploration in urban living space; audio visual essay focus on the sounds produced by a person that lives the house and leaves it using the disappearing car lift....
Sandwich panels permit to reduce stone thickness, obtaining lighter floors and coatings and at the same time increasing the resistance of the final product. The use of sandwich panels permits to halve the thickness of the marble slab through the "splitting" technique. The panel, glued to the marble using epoxy resins, absorbs the tensions caused by the gluing proce...
The Mobility Pavilion features the world’s largest passenger lift, which can transport more than 160 people at a time. The pavilion also stars a partly underground, partly open-air 340-metre track to watch cutting-edge mobility technologies in action. In this tremendous project, Effisus Stopper M1 & 1P and Effisus Bond FT Tape were used as solutions for permanently se...
Iglu’® is the leading market product, created and patented for the realization of sanitary spaces, ventilated cavities, under-floor cavities, ventilated floors and roofs during the construction and renovation of civil and industrial buildings. The ventilated cavity, realized with Iglu’®, is an effective solution to the problem of rising moisture on the flooring, beca...
As balustrade infills, stainless steel wire mesh provides robust security and creates either transparency or privacy. Despite its stability, architectural mesh lends a certain lightness and textile elegance to railing infills and balustrades. HAVER Architectural Mesh offers also protection and security for indoor and outdoor staircases. Extensive wire mesh elements an...
The Okavango Delta Bridge Project in Mohembo, Botswana, currently under construction and due to be completed in 2021. Macalloy supplied 50mm 1030 Post Tensioning Bars with Denso tape (to prevent corrosion), for the foundation base to hold down the framework of the main towers. We also supplied training on how to safely stress the bars. When completed the 55m pylons will ...
Hotel Nodo: “naturally urban”. A hotel with façades covered in Laminam bioactive surfaces was the first building to actively combat South America’s (*) pollution in Chile’s capital. Its architect, Ricardo Stein, designed the hotel to create a building that could not only iconographically reproduce a forest inside a city (just like a landscape), but could function like a ...
With its new Lego setting, the Milan Laminam showroom has changed and reopened to the public and professionals with a live streaming presentation of four new surfaces on Facebook. Ardesia a Spacco, in the finishes Bianco (white) and Nero (black), is inspired by the medieval and Renaissance tradition of using “Pietra di Lavagna” (a kind of natural slate), and aims to over...
With its new Brand Identity, Laminam took another step towards the future by publishing its first Sustainability Report. This move was not dictated by trends or passing fads. It was a choice based on the company’s identity which embodies the values it wants to promote – respect for people, region and the environment. Laminam believes that doing business means innovating ...
Gate Avenue at Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) is an 880 m long promenade that extends from the Gate Building to the Central Park Towers and connects the surrounding office, hotel and residential areas. The architect’s brief was to develop the Gate Avenue at DIFC into a unique cultural experience in the region and to enhance the resident and visitor experienc...
Built in 1974 and refurbished in 2015, the Serrano Tower is a 14-storey office block located in the exclusive Salamanca district, in the middle of Madrid’s most popular shopping street. It is the only stand-alone office tower in Madrid’s so-called ‘Golden Mile’, providing modern offices in a unique high-street retail area. Effisus Ecofacade System was used in this...
In order to enhance the existing building, the facade of the multi-storey parking garage on Market Street in Philadelphia, USA, has been covered with a wire mesh cladding made of HAVER Architectural Mesh. The illuminated architectural mesh facade provides a beautiful transparent stainless steel facade by day and a vibrant veil of colour by night. During the day the refle...
Staying in a nest, surrounded by nature, without giving up the comforts of your home: this is Nidoom®. A total prefabricated hotel suite, with a wooden structure designed to guarantee comfort and energy efficiency, fully respecting the environment and nature. Compact and easily transportable, energy efficient and equipped with all comforts and modern technologies.
The new generation shopping centre is in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid. Open Sky is a combination of a shopping centre and retail park, with more than 90,000 m2. It will have, among other things, a 10,000 m2 lake, a beach club with jacuzzi and private swimming pools, a concert stage and a children’s area. Open Sky redefines the concept of a shopping centre, both for its d...
A contemporary workplace, with two commercial office buildings (11 Canal Reach and 21 Canal Reach) under construction in King’s Cross, a renowned zone in Central London, with a total size of 54.000 m2. The buildings can be of single or multiple occupation, in different configurations, and are due to receive the headquarters of Facebook in London. 11-21 Canal Reach’...
This building, designed and conceived by architect Odile Decq, is home to Europe's largest incubator for start-ups. At the heart of the project to convert the McDonald's warehouses, the new architecture alternates linear and rounded geometric forms. Its facade with round windows gives a unique identity to the place. Credits: Odile Decq, RIVP/La Ville de Paris/Région I...
This tertiary building was designed using a metal skin clad with natural anodised aluminium composite cassettes opening onto the peripheral side. The choice of installation system and the creation of banded windows at each level of the building allow for optimal access to natural light whatever the exposure and guarantee low energy consumption. The façade also offers sou...
Application between March 2020 and April 2020. 8200 mq of epoxy self-levelling flooring on dry concrete. Process: - mechanical treatment of the surface by grinding - application a coat of Fluidepox A+B filled with 50% of quartz B0 - application of Paviplast A+B like self-levelling product filled with 80% of quartz B0
Location: Bolgare (BG) - Italy
Breeze block brings natural ventilation and light for indoor space as well as create the unique traits for design. Breeze block comes back in vogue as an increasingly popular materials in green architecture. "Maze 2" - a design of breeze block of Viettiles was used widely by architects for modern design with classic inspiration from the early 20th century and nature i...
Prestigious high-end villa integrated in a beautiful green area in Caravaggio (BG - Italy). Light-weight prefabricated houses with high finishing where the architectural style perfectly integrates the overhangs using modern style and technological materials, care of finishing and preponderance of wood and porcelain stoneware.
Olivier Demeijer, Managing Director of ISSOL, together with four other investors, bought the company based near Liège and injected a total of €1 million in working capital. Following bankruptcy in September 2019, which halted production for a few months, operations restarted in January already, thanks to the trust placed in the company by employees and customers. ISSOL ...
Last December, Laminam SpA and the Japanese company Roma Tile Co. Ltd signed an agreement to create a new company, LAMINAM JAPAN. The signatures of Laminam CEO Mr Alberto Selmi and Roma Tile President Mr Shigeru Matsushita represent the next step in the partnership between the two companies, which since 2011 has allowed the Italian brand to quickly become a leading playe...
Ropes courses are a classic – they have been around for a while and are a favorite of both kids and adults. But as with any attraction, with time people get a bit too familiar with it. Walltopia’s team has always had a dream of revolutionizing the ropes course and giving it a new image to correspond to the awe that the course experience brings. After many years of ex...
IdealPark has designed a car lift project for Frav Srl, the official Porsche and Audi car dealership for Vicenza and its province with over sixty years of experience in the business. Many car dealers use external ramps to connect different levels but the result is often visually unappealing. The architect suggested installing a car lift to add aesthetic appeal and gai...
SkyVenture, also known as Spacewalk, is a Indoor Skydiving Wind Tunnel part of the Abu Dhabi Country Club. Opened in 2007, is located between Abu Dhabi’s biggest mall and the famous Ferrari World Theme Park. Above ground level, the skydiving simulator reaches a height of approx. 50m, and is submerged over 6m on the floor. The concrete and steel requirements, the depth...
Independent Tower, Austin, Texas, is a 658ft tall condominium tower - and is the tallest residential building in the region. The design award winning building includes unevenly stacked blocks, earning the nickname “Jenga Tower”. The structure includes a Sky Fitness Center, and a 25 person theatre, both cantilevered over the buildings edge offering floor to ceiling views...
Opened in March, the 85.4m mixed-use tower contains 18 stories which house 33 apartments, a 72-room hotel, offices, a restaurant, a café and a roof terrace with panoramic views of the vast lake Mjøsa. Mjøstårnet eclipses the previous record-holder Brook Commons, a 53m-high student residence in British Columbia, Canada. According to Rune Abramsen, CEO at Moelven Limtre...
Abu Dhabi International Airport, opened in 1982, is one of the most important in the United Arab Emirates. It has expanded and contributed to an exponential increase in capacity, making it one of the most expensive and bold airport projects in the world. A new terminal, with three new wings, was added between the lanes of the old one, so this new terminal was nicknamed M...
The Redmonds Building provides the university with a state-of-the-art home for the Faculty of Business and Law, the Liverpool Screen School and the university’s new Professional Centre. With around 11,500m2 of flexible, high quality space over six floors, the building includes three large lecture theatres, IT suites and a range of medium-sized teaching and seminar spa...
Granite® Silky Shine has been chosen as the new cladding solution for a refurbished office building in Rennes (France). The steel was supplied by ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products and formed into panels by , a company which specialises in high-end facade solutions. The panels have an angled aspect which creates a play of light and shadow across the facades. At the sam...
