Olivier Chartier, Responsable Communication in France of Schlüter Systems showed us their new products and solutions to perfom the decorations of bathrooms and  kitchens. 

You also can see all the photos of Batimat HERE.

World’s largest online gaming company bwin.party had its Headquarters in London designed by DuPont™ throughout Corian®. This company’s provided to the place a solid surface which offers great stability and a sophisticated design that will be noted by everybody. In this particular case, the source of inspiration has been the “dot”, from where they created a design that’s full of circles.

Starting from the spherical doors, going on with the tunnels that connect all rooms and finally reaching the shapes of the chairs, the imaginary it’s mainly geometrical.  DuPont™ is betting on futuristic and even cyber aesthetics that go very well with a company that’s based on online videogames. Corian® is well-known because of its ability on working on every kind of material, giving its attention to almost any kind of project, a fact that they already showed at the bwin.party HQ. 

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2013’s International BATIMAT Exhibition, which took place in Paris from 4^th to 8^th November, has been a total success at every level. In an event that had Innovation as its main theme, professionals from all over the world participated in its activities through a full-time programme.

INTERCLIMA+ELEC Chairman has declared that this event has become an international reference point thanks to the collaboration between INTERCLIMA+ELEC and IDEO BAIN with BATIMAT. Reed Expositions’ Building Division Director, Stéphanie Auxenfans, comments how favorable would be the results in a long-term way, as the union of so many companies will answer properly to the sector’s transformations.  

2013’s Innovation Awards have been specially followed by all the areas in the event. In this tense economical situation, BATIMAT has been useful as well because of its treatment of aspects such like thermal renovation or energetic efficiency, which it is believed these are essential points in future’s architecture. Therefore it can be said that the most important theme treated on this edition it has been both the innovation and energy’s saving.

In the other hand, BATIMAT’s location this year has received very good comments. Visitants were constant and they were perfectly guided by a very-well designed programme. The next edition of BATIMAT will be celebrated on November, 2015.  

Mediclinics Group, a company dedicated to design, fabrication and commercialization of bathroom equipments, did arrive to an agreement with USA’s Bradley Corporation. This alliance has the motivation of distributing Bradley’s products all over Spain through a huge net of professionals.

Mediclinics it’s already present in more than 90 countries, with an activity that goes on since 1974. On the other hand, the American brand is recognized because of its constant sense of innovation and its care of quality in every one of its products, some of them like mirrors, bars, medicine cabinets, paper dispensers, and many others. 

Students from all over the world have now new information about one of the most prestigious international awards. In this 2014’s edition, the International Velux Award is still on the side of the young one’s ideas, expecting to explore every possibility that natural light may offer.

The jury has been selected between the collaboration of Velux and the International Union of Architects. This edition will count with the presence of three architects of three different nationalities, with a very well-known editor and also with Per Arnold Andersen in name of the Velux Group. Many of the jury’s members did participate in past editions so they will repeat the experience one more time, much satisfied with the level of participation and also with the innovating mind that characterizes the young students. 

The Ushuaïa Beach Hotel in Ibiza, created by Estudio Villa 13, has been awarded with the Hotel Design Award, one of the most recognized hotel-design awards in Europe. The jury said that the architects had shown great vision at rescuing some buildings and transforming them into “an entertainment grand masterplan”.

Ibiza is one of the main touristic points searched by an active youth and Ushuaïa Beach Hotel represents perfectly their motivations and character. Surprise and constant innovation are two main pillars in this company, which every year reforms the rooms in the hotel in order to keep faithful to this philosophy of change.

In the hotel it can be found essential elements such like the swimming pool, a Jacuzzi, the courtyards but also the terraces guarded by palm trees, an invasion of ants running along the roofs and even groups of birds flying around the corridors. All this creates an unforgettable experience and an aesthetic originality which is exemplar to the design world. 

Image: Series TWIST, Villeroy & Boch ©

The company Villeroy & Boch has developed four new tiles designs for the incoming 2014. Always attempting to create the most innovative and sustainable product, this collection has been designed in order to approach the different needs that the costumers may have.

Urban Construct, the first of them, radiates power and strength. It is a model dedicated to those who are always in movement, with harmonious series in white, black and shades of grey. Its surface texture brings transparency and a sense of simplicity that’s always well-appreciated in every area. On the other hand, Villeroy & Boch presents Urban Nature, a self-explanatory name which reflects the natural-looking ceramic finishes. The whole harmony with nature it’s easily seen in the selected stones and the organic colors.

The other two models in this collection are Urban Mix and Urban Culture. The first one is a very luminous and creative one, with pastel colors and prints that may represent flowers, hearts, comic book figures or green meadows, an irresistible list of possibilities that will delight every room. Last but not least, there’s Urban Culture, a model that calls to the combination of eras and countries, creating a fascinating cross-culture design. 

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The hotel’s rehabilitation took place in the neighborhoods Sassi, World Heritage Site, inside Matera’s city, one of the oldest in the globe. The structure was abandoned since the XVII Century and it’s been reinvented completely by the architect Daniela Amoroso. The finality is to create a spacious and cozy design hotel.

The material that defines this place it’s undoubtedly the stone, which is present in every corner of the structure, beginning from the walls and going up to the ceilings. The cold touch of the stone is contrasted by the warm brown tonalities which confer a nice homelike feeling. An interior courtyard it’s the space that connect the other rooms, through a structure of vaults recovered from useless pavement layers.

In contrast with the stone it have been added details such as linen hand-made curtains, in order to control the lightning wisely and elegantly. Using small superior windows, the light enters the rooms and leaves some spaces with shadows, creating a mysterious and charming atmosphere.

This is the second edition of the contest, which was created to promote tiles in the USA. The participants, all of them architects and designers, had to present a photograph of themselves next to a product which represents, in a very creative way, Tile of Spain. An architectural tour through Spain it’s the award that will take the four winners to important meetings such as Cevisama 2014 in Valencia.

The four winners will also receive CEU credits to keep their professional license. The contest was created by Ascer in collaboration with the Commercial Office of Spain in Miami. The USA market it’s ranked on the 7^th place in the Spanish tiles exportation market, so this kind of event it’s important as a way to keep the business relationship between both countries. 

Photo: (above) David DeQuattro, Monica Hanley, (under) Kristyna Borden, Denise M Fitzgerald

Cevisama 2014 exceeded its expectations due to a huge flood of visitors from both national and international origins. You can check all the photographic and video material below.

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Venatto, the prestigious Spanish ceramic technology brand, launches a new collection of ceramic boards with exquisite realism reproducing the natural beauty of wood and offers all the advantages of ceramic art technology, all without cutting down a single tree.

Venatto uses the latest technology to develop new ARTTEK collection, that stands out for its excellent quality and outstanding toughness. An easy to clean material and really resistant to chemical agents and sudden temperature changes. It is also highly resistant to wear, compression and shock and supports unaltered solar radiation, heavy traffic and the passage of time. Pavements that can be easily cleaned, will not change color with sunlight and do not require waxing or polishing.

It is particularly suitable for solutions at high traffic locations such as hotels, shops, restaurants, etc. It is fireproof, and therefore resists the action of fire without propagate and can be used both indoors and outdoors, for its high slip resistance.

Venatto ceramic planks are available in 20×180 cm and 30×180 cm.