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Designed for recreation and relaxation, swimming pools require an architectural design that meets complex technical and environmental requirements. The material selected for the wall coverings and flooring must be highly resistant to chlorine, chemicals and weathering, it must guarantee minimal water absorption and be easy to maintain. The Cotto d’Este collections, from...

Outdoor spaces can no longer be considered simply as secondary areas of the house or public places; rather, they are key spaces for social interaction. We have become acutely aware of the great potential of outdoor areas and of the importance of caring for and furnishing them: efficiency and practicality, aesthetics and sophisticated materials are the most valued qualit...

Airports, railway stations, subways and newly built suburban areas: non-places, as Marc Augé called them, have long been considered neutral, anonymous spaces with uniform characteristics and no real identity. Over the years, however, the speed of global trade has given these spaces a crucial role. Stripped of their simple function as transit areas, mobility infrastructur...

The impressive Ciudad de Valencia ferry has a light, resistant and high-performance ceramic heart. A big heart: 2,700 square metres of surfaces covered by Cotto d’Este, including thin, large-format porcelain stoneware ceramic slabs. These light, weather-resistant, very hygienic slabs guarantee the highest quality and performance standards for the shipping industry, which...

The new Tiburtina Station in Rome designed by ABDR is a result of an international architecture competition dating in 2002. An international, regional and metropolitan node designed as a bridge-station between two districts, Pietralata and Nomentano, which have been historically separated by the railway line. The huge block is a 240m long glass parallelepiped suspended ...

SMC Italia’s new headquarters in Brugherio features three floors of offices, a central courtyard with a skylight that illuminates the entire space with natural light and a new warehouse, covering a total area of 14,000 square metres. The project was entrusted to studio e45 - Genuine Italian Design, which designed dynamic and lively spaces with a welcoming sense of minima...

The "Base Tunnel", a tunnel with separate carriageways that are 8.7 km long, a symbol of the entire "Variante di Valico" stretch of the A1 motorway, will be inaugurated on 23 December, 2015. With 10.2 million cubic metres of excavated material and a working face of 180 square metres, it is the largest tunnel on the Variante di Valico and one of the most impressive in Eur...

The new business offices of the Reale Mutua Group are centrally located in the historic centre of Turin (on the edge of the southwest side of the castrum romano), replacing a previous building from the 1970s, and near the historic headquarters on Via Corte D’Appello, with the possibility of constructing a true Reale Group Campus. The new space includes approximately 8...

As background, the architectural perfection of Florence, as foreground, the natural perfection of the Parco delle Cascine and as ideal connection between these two forms of perfection, the Parco della Musica, a bridge between examples of excellence, which will be setting of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opera festival. A building that offers the audience beauty, purity ...

Cotto d’Este is proud to have taken part in the project, “clothing” the most stunning and innovative skyscraper in the world, covering the facades with a custom-made product. Next to the large park known as "I Giardini di Porta Nuova”, two prestigious buildings, home to over 1000 varieties of plant, integrate seamlessly in the natural environment that surrounds them....

They are buildings destined to address different worlds, different cultures and different needs. Large spaces that increasingly define the geography of cities, the direction in which we are heading and interaction models. Large malls or shopping districts no longer only consist of shops, but also of offices, restaurants, gyms, sometimes of hotels and various centres. ...