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From ‘Renovation Today’ we tell you that the city of Barcelona welcomes a new edition of the Barcelona Design Week. An annual meeting of design, innovation and business that from 2006 attracts professionals & creative businesses who are eager to learn new trends, to network and to share knowledge and projects about a wide range of topics. An event that since its first edition has grown and nowadays is the Barcelona’s leading event and one of the major design weeks on the international calendar, that brings together the key agents of the design & business community.
A perfect opportunity that allows attendees to live the creative potential of the city through the BDW City programme, formed by activities organized and hosted by studios, creative companies and other agents from different neighbourhoods of Barcelona. Moreover, this is also a meeting point for professionals and businesses in any industry or productive services and for students and general public interested in design.
So, this special event will count with the participation of Dune. The firm has been selected to participate included in the program BDW City, YLAB’s Latest. This consists of opening the doors to the public of one of the last design projects realized by the prestigious study of architecture YLAB; a 135 m2 house located in the Eixample “wider part” in English, a district of Barcelona constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is very close to Passeig the Gràcia, in full downtown. The house has been reformed and decorated in a contemporary and elegant style in which they have used the incredible mosaic ‘Colorado’, one of the most sophisticated mosaics by Dune made of black stone. A place that will be open for guided visits on June 9, 2016 from 11:00h till 20:00h.
The past week VMZINC® celebrated the award ceremony of the seventh edition of the Archizinc Trophy. An event that took place in the Chatelet Theatre in the city of Paris and which awards the best 12 international construction works made with VMZINC.
This edition of the biannual competition has had 152 works of 18 different countries, architectects that have demonstrated its enthusiasm for it. So, this has demonstrated its capacity to join a big range of cultures, kinds of buildings and architectural styles with the same natural, noble and recyclable material.
About the winner projects, it should be highlighted that the outstanding projects for its architectural style, the way they has innovated with the use of VMZINC, its functionality and its environmental approach. This are awards that have 4 categories and that include 3 special awards:
Single-family Home Category
Casa Golf Fuenterrabía, Guipúzcoa (first prize)
Architecture firm: Rehabite
Public Building Category
Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo (first prize)
Architecture firm: Mangado y Asociados
Public Building Category
Centro Cultural Daoíz y Velarde, Madrid (Mention)
Architecture firm: Rafael de la Hoz Arquitectos
Public Building Category
Taller Artesanal Armenteíra, Pontevedra (Mention)
Architecture firm: Rodriguez + Pintos Arquitecto
Cersaie 2016 is near to start and the companies are presenting all the novelties that will show on this event. This is the case of Intermatex a company located in Villarreal (Spain) and specialized in mosaics and porcelain.
For this occasion, Intermatex show a new product line, the vinyl mosaic, which joints Intermatex experience in the decorative mosaics with the practicality of the products for renovations that do not need of adhesive or grout. Easyquick, the new line of decorative vinyl mosaic for the company takes off with four very saleable models. Dados Plata and Dados Rojo, both in small chip size, the first one with a mix of white, black and inox, and the second one with white, inox and red. On the other hand, in a larger chip size we have Cosmos Marron and Cosmos Negro, representing the adaptation of the successful quartzstone to the vinyl mosaic.
The company will also present other novelties for example in the mosaic line where the company has developed three very different ranges. First of all the range Brass, with two models that brings us to a more modern and sophisticated style through the antique brass. Secondly we will find Metro and its bevelled version, Metro Bevel, both models in 4 colours: white, bone, grey and graphite. Finally, the company launches the Trend range which represents for the company the landing in the decorative wooden mosaics.
To finish, in the case of porcelain Intermatex shows its model 60x60cms Aspen in the LUX series. Moreover, the company goes big in the world of porcellanic woods with two very different series Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Iris Ceramica Group Spa arrives to Bolonia to launch its new brand ‘SapienStone‘. An event which will take place on Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm in the prestigious location of the former Ospedale dei Bastardini. There, the company is going to present Dress Your Kitchen, a multimedia installation which will host the presentation of the new brand of the group dedicated to kitchen countertops of high range porcelain.
The ‘Sapienstone’ collection will be the focus of an immersive process in which monitors and architectural video projections accompany visitors in discovery of the new brand; dramatic light effects and references to suggestive elements of the world of kitchens underline the technical and aesthetic qualities of this new collection and the spaces in the historic location.
All of this framed in the Bologna Design Week 2016, an international show for the promotion of design culture that provides the perfect backdrop for the official launch of the Iris Ceramica Group Spa’s new brand.
Coinciding with Cersaie, this exhibition will be open from Tuesday, September 27 through Saturday, October 1, from 16:00 to 22:00.
From ‘Renovation Today’ we offer you all the information about the new exhibition that SpazioFMZ has inaugurated last Thursday. Curated by Khoury himself with Luca Molinari and under the name of ‘In order of appearance’, this exhibition will be opened from October 20 to December 2.
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
This is a story told through drawings, photographs and words describing the artistic vision of Lebanon’s most visionary and unpredictable architect. Khoury was born and grew up in Beirut, a place with a complex history at a crossroads of different cultural and religious traditions, and developed a highly personal aesthetic unlike anything in the contemporary architecture scene, expressed in his career as an architect, curator and author.
The buildings designed by Bernard Khoury / DW5, the studio he founded in Beirut in 1993, are among the most spectacular landmarks in the city that has been under constant convalescence. The underground nightclub B 018 (1998) celebrates the unbridled hedonism of Lebanese nightlife with its roof that slides open onto the starry sky; the antennae lighting up the pool terrace on the N.B.K. Residence (2013) shine like beacons along the Beirut skyline; and the recent Plot #4371 (2015), concentrates 29 apartment/studios for the capital’s new creative élite around a gigantic round freight lift measuring 30 square metres.
To present this unique figure to the public, SpazioFMG and Bernard Khoury together selected more than 100 drawings, visions and photographs in which real and imaginary buildings and spaces in the city overlap, dialogue and blend together. The exhibition also engages the visitor with 16 stories told by “Talking Objects” suspended here and there in the gallery, from which Bernard Khoury’s own voice can be heard.
From ‘Renovation Today’ we talk about Renson. The company was recognized with a ‘Special Mention Award’, thanks to the Panovista Max, a sun protection screen for glass-on-glass corner windows.
The award was given by the German Design Council, the organiser of the internationally renowned ‘German Design Award’. This is another more award for this patented sun protection solution which has already won the ‘Innovationspreis Architektur + Fenster Tür Fassade’ at the Fensterbau Frontale trade show last year and the Iconic Award in 2016.
The German Design Council justified its choice for the Panovista Max as follows: “The sun protection screen for corner windows is based on a simple but ingenious principle in a technically and visually elegant execution.” In its evaluation, the jury praised the fact that even with the sun protection screen down, you can continue to enjoy the view to the outside through the glass-on-glass corner windows. “The Renson Panovista Max is the ideal solution for this kind of ‘open’ architecture; plus, it can also be integrated seamlessly into the architecture. The Panovista Max is suitable for corner windows up to 2 by 6 m wide, with a total surface area of no more than 30 m². The corner zipper connects the two screens when they are lowered. This not only provides more stability, but also means the Panovista Max reaches the highest wind resistance class.”
PANOVISTA MAX
With this sun protection screen for glass-on-glass corner windows, Renson is the first on the market to introduce a sun protection solution that provides the necessary protection for large, modern corner windows without annoying guides, cables or profiles in the corner.
Designed by Le Corbusier for the High Court of Chandigarh in 1954, this product remained unreleased until 2012, when it was found in the archives of the Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris. As only a side view of the design had remained, it was necessary to "rebuild" its functional aesthetic, choosing finishes and details to suit the language of shipbuilding work.
Butech, in collaboration with the French company Davitec, has completed the installation of a 7,000-square-metre Krion ventilated façade in the Institut d’Optique in Talence, near to Bordeaux, France.
As a result, this institute, which researches laser technology, includes a ventilated façade made by the Porcelanosa Group.
The prestigious architecture group, run by Nicolas Ragueneau and Antoine Roux, found Krion to be the ideal material for a project in which light and white are the stars.
In addition, the possibility of using reliefs (halftone) and its versatility in the job has allowed a unique and characteristic design.
STEP BY STEP
This project has involved a large amount of engineering work led by Butech’s Technical Department which has found all of the certification necessary to complete this façade in the CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment) in Paris.
This technical work was completed through the use of façade and design modules, both in terms of sheets and special fixing elements for this project.
It should be noted that, given the importance of the project, the customer trusted Butech for the execution and technical supervision of this façade.
Krion Lux 1100 in smooth sheets measuring 2,800 x 2,700 mm and panels decorated in relief measuring 3,800 x 2,800 mm.
A UNIQUE MATERIAL
The covering consists of a ventilated Krion façade: 5771 m² made up of krion sheets (2,800 x 2×700) and halftone Krion panels: 1149.12 m² (3,800 x 2,800).
The Krion FV façade project may have multiple solutions given the great versatility in the material and the high number of options offered to the project manager.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Krion is a new generation ‘solid surface’ material developed by SystemPool, a Porcelanosa Grupo company. It is a material which is warm to the touch and similar to natural stone.
Its most important characteristics are that it is non-porous, anti-bacterial and anti-graffiti, as well as tough and resistant to the elements, durable, repairable, requires little maintenance and is easy to clean.
In addition to this, it is an ecological material, meaning it can be 100% recycled. The entire product can be reprocessed and used again in the production cycle. Thanks to the characteristics listed above, Krion has become an ideal material for use on façades, offering a high degree of creative liberty. It can be found in a wide range of sizes and shapes, both 2D and 3D, with a white finish which highlights its purity and neutrality.
MAIN ADVANTAGES
It should also be noted that in addition to all of the above, there are various advantages offered by the façade, such as an improvement in the building’s energy efficiency and a more durable façade finish, which, among others, makes the combination of a ventilated façade with Krion the ideal solution for many types of façade. As a result, various façades have been installed by the group in various parts of the world using this material.
VARIOUS FAÇADES
In addition to the above-mentioned Institut d’Optique de Talence, near Bordeaux, France, there are the Bershka shops in the street Preciados in Madrid, Spain, the Avenue Baghdad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Hilversun in the Netherlands.
Others which stand out are the Porcelanosa shop in Clerkenwell, London, UK; the Hotel Sofitel in Haikou, China; the Tour Raffinity office building in Casablanca, Morocco; the Soyombo Towers office building in Ulan Bator, Mongolia; the 3M central offices in Madrid, Spain; and the Hotel Radisson Blue, Mall of America in Illinois, USA.
Finally, it should be noted that Butech, the technical company in the Porcelanosa Grupo, is a company which specialises in the management and installation of ventilated façades, both on new and refurbished buildings.
NEW CONSTRUCTIVE SYSTEMS
Amongst their various functions, the research and development of new constructive systems and products should be highlighted, with the result of this work being the new system for creating façades: Krion.
We are pleased to have had the opportunity to provide more information about its characteristics and advantages through this report.
New renovation in Catania, Italy, by A-OMA arquitects. Villa A is the result of a double intervention: the re-use and restructuring of an existing house and a new extension close to it. The project insists on the dialogue between these two realms as a metaphor of both a traditional and domestic intimacy and a contemporary and clear extroversion.
In fact, if the existing building conserves its closed and massive character, the new one is transparent and luminous. If the former keeps its original pitched-roof geometry and materials (mostly lava stone and wood) the other plays with a minimal geometry and more contemporary materials (steel and glass).
The project is most of all characterized by an intentional environmental care. In the south of Italy the major problem is to protect a building from heath rather from the cold of its tempered winters. So the old complex benefits from the inertia of its thick walls while the façades of the villa employ glasses with adequate solar and exterior curtains. On the roof the pensile garden plays its fundamental cooling role.
Rastelli brand is born in 2014 from the will of Mr. Renzo Rastelli, that aims to penetrate not only the Italian market but also the worldwide business. The idea of internationalization encourages the company to get in touch with two of the best designers in the world: the Italian Ferruccio Laviani and Karim Rashid, in order to create a product with a versatile approach and continually evolving to reflect the Italian design and a wider ranging program. The development doesn’t stop on the aesthetic aspect, but studies in deep the themes of the ergonomic and environmental compatibility.
The company wants to be identified also through its green trademarks because certified according to the strictest FSC and ISO 14001 standards. From an ergonomics point of view, Rastelli approaches the market offering the widest cabinetry range in terms of quantity and quality, choosing as standard, ingenious well-designed storage solutions being able to count on dimensions that can meet the American standards.
A GREAT DESIGN
There are three words that can summarize the company’s mission: design, quality and green. The management’s daily goal is to offer kitchens to an international and sophisticated public that besides looking for the Italian design also pays attention to technology and quality, providing a quality service in an efficient, effective and timely manner, having the customer at the center of the project.
‘KOOK’ bY KARIM RASHID
“I take a minimalist approach in my kitchens, preferring to create a clean striking surface that is punctuated by splashes of strong color. For the Kook kitchen I wanted to create an innovative design to turn even the most challenging culinary endeavors into pure aesthetic pleasure”. The cabinets open to give expansive views of all that is to offer and then shut when the meal is done making a minimal and uncluttered kitchen. Rolling shutters reveal LED edged shelves and built-in hood above the hob. Utilizing the angled cabinet, larger items can be stored at the top while smaller, more readily used items on the bottom making cooking a breeze.
AESTHETIC MINIMALISM
The pressure opened bottom cabinets are accented with colored LED strips and angled to allow an easy approach to the work surface. Kook also features a sink that can be hidden using a matching cutting board to make a continuous surface. The use of solid Corian on frameless doors gives life to a combination of technicality, solidity and aesthetic minimalism.
The interpretation of Rastelli to the evolving consumer needs which demands quality and design but also aware of the value of what they are buying. R1 is a complete program that does not renounce to quality and design features which distinguish Rastelli, it’s able to offer a product that makes value for money one of its strengths. The 22 mm thick door is available in 8 different materials: low pressure laminate (LPL) in wood finish, laminate with laser edging, polymeric, matt lacquer, glossy single-sided lacquer, oak veneer, glass and ceramics. The vertical and horizontal aluminum profiles contribute to give a minimalist look to this kitchen, offering an alternative opening system to the doors instead of using the normal handles, available as an option anyway. The wall system collection completes the image of this model in a sober and contemporary way, overcoming the kitchen area and offering the possibility to develop other complete interiors by creating an aesthetic balance between authenticity and sophistication.
‘BELUGA’, bY FERRUCCIO LAVIANI
The company presents ‘Beluga’, by Ferruccio Laviani “This is a solid project, well defined but constantly evolving. I don’t want this project to end only through images or certain compositions: I would like this project to be an introduction, a starting point”.
On the other hand, Royale is the answer to a constituent key for the new dynamics of the daily living: the contemporary rhythms together with the dynamic requirements of the present time, influence the environment where we live and Royale makes nothing but perfectly interpret these new requirements and rewrite the rules of kitchen space: from a piece of furniture to a pure kitchen ambience._
Venatto presents, colecction Cancun, a new piece specially designed for pavement pools by their excellent quality and non-slip effect. A natural product that meets the highest demands in terms of sustainability and security, one neutral color that complements the unique piece for pool decks Venatto, that integrates elegantly a water collection channel.
The Cancun Collection, apply the most advanced technology with a unique production process in the world to offer a new piece of technical ceramic extrusion. With a slip rough finish, is particularly suitable to cover the areas of access to hotels’ pools, sports clubs, neighborhood and family chalets, with a material for easy cleaning and maintenance, which will remain impeccable with the passage of time.
A last generation safe product, that has excellent properties for the construction of swimming pools and meets the most stringent specifications due to their slip resistance, ease of cleaning and resistance to the action of chemical agents and sudden changes in temperature. It is also highly resistant to wear, compression and shock (with a breakage force greater than 6000N).
The new Venatto’s collection features 40 × 40 cm tiles , edges for pools and special corner pieces.
Ramón Esteve architects and Jaime Sanahuja present their latest works: ‘Sardinera House’ (Esteve) and ‘House Oos’ (Sanahuja & Partners).
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As a witnesses of strict rules in conservation of the traditional buildings in Kotor Bay, which is Unesco protected area, we decided to avoid expected solutions and to bring contemporary approach in reviving of the internal architecture of the old stone house in Ljuta village. This interlacing of the traditional principles and modern needs brought a new life to the building which exist from XIX century.
We set out to create a luxurious residence from the existing house whilst at the same time adhering to conservation conditions by making minimal interventions to the traditional, baroque features of the exterior.
We started by mapping out units of space, ambients, as a basis for development of the concept. This treatment of interior space enabled us to take a freer approach to the reconstruction of the house. We divided the internal space into three distinct zones:
zone one – sleeping area
zone two – central gallery
zone three – fireplace area and children’s room
The central gallery is the fluid space that defines these zones by providing a vertical division of the left and right sides of the building as well as a visual connection of the levels. To create this effect we had to dematerialise the connections between the sides of the building (as shown in the picture?) which we achieved by designing a bridge and staircase constructed from glass and steel.
The right side of the building is functionally more complex than the sleeping area. It consists of a living room on the ground floor, a fireplace area and a children’s bedroom. The fireplace area is linked by a glass bridge to the rest of the space with a glass partition wall to the side. The daughter’s bedroom is lined with wooden planks and is located at the very top of the house, completely separate from the other rooms. The living room and fireplace area are independent spaces while at the same time being open, visually connected parts of the whole house. In contrast the children’s room is designed as a separate home within a home drawing on the inspiration of a traditional child’s treehouse.
We played with modern and traditional elements and natural materials to give those in the house an opportunity to enjoy the existing ‘spirit’of an old stone building while fulfilling the aesthetic and functional requirements of a modern lifestyle. The traditional staircase on the ground floor, the wrought iron fittings and the combination of steel with stone and plaster walls were key to this.
The main concept was to present a ‘materialised’building unifying the elements of stone, glass, wood and steel.
The Cosentino Group, global company and leader in the production and distribution of innovative surfaces in the world of architecture and design, has been celebrating the decision of the jury on the 10th edition of the international competition Cosentino Design Challenge, and now has the pleasure of announcing the winners for the two categories in the competition, architecture and design:
Architecture (In this field the topic was “Cosentino and sport” with the candidates’ surface area or site of choice).
Design (The theme for this category consisted of working on “commercial elements”, playing with different surfaces).
Cosentino is proud to see how the initiative that started ten years ago to promote talent of students of architecture and design around the world, continues to grow and receive more and more support and backing from distinguished schools, universities and institutions both nationally and overseas. A total of 20 were official partners actively involved in the Cosentino Design Challenge 10:
The growing success of the competition each year in terms of the number of projects and work submitted is also significant. Cosentino Design Challenge 10 received a total of 353 entries (173 for the architecture category and 180 for the design category), a 28% increase on the previous year. Entries were submitted from students at both the partner institutions and from those at other design and architecture schools around the world, such as the Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia (Colombia), Universidad del Sinú (Colombia) or the Universidad Simón I Patiño (Bolivia)
he jury for Cosentino Design Challenge consisted of representatives from the partner schools and universities involved in this year’s edition. The Granada architect Juan Domingo Santos was also invited to sit on the jury, alongside the Director of Communications and Marketing, Santiago Alfonso, on behalf of Grupo Cosentino.
To mark the 10th edition of the competition, Cosentino celebrated the jury’s decision at their head offices in Cantoria, Almeria. After completing their deliberation, the members of the CSR Corporate Committee, led by the Chairman of the Group, Francisco Martínez-Cosentino Justo, greeted the jury members present and saw for themselves the short-listed and winning projects for this year.
The winning posters are available at: www.cosentinodesignchallenge.org
The Tenerife Fine Arts Center (Circulo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife) is a non-profit entity funded in 1925, which recently refreshed its long lasting history with a strong public engagement program. This program renewal came along with the mission to improve the usability of the building, which was entrusted to the Spanish architect, Fernando Menis.
Menis’s intervention, while discreet and inexpensive, adds great value to the building. The project redesigns the access and the circulations across the 5 floors in order to make it accessible and marks the welcome desk with a custom built piece that looks more like of a site specific installation than a furniture object. The interactive lighting varies in relation with the human presence as well as with the season of the year. Besides energy savings, this system aims to produce a sensitive relation between the users and their environment, enrich the way building and contents are experienced. The low cost materials meet the demands of a limited budget while referring the history of the building: everything is solved with small concrete blocks, cement and painting. The program of the building expands to include exhibition spaces (levels 1&2), cafeteria (level 2), theatre (level 3), co-working (level-5), audio-visual cluster (level 5 too next to the library) and the roof is made available for outdoor events such as open air cinema and parties and it will open soon.
Functional Site Installation: new welcome desk by Fernando Menis at the Tenerife Fine Arts Center; Courtesy Menis Arquitectos
Another particularity of the intervention is the collaboration with artists. A 30 x 3 m collective mural made by 47 local and international artists, who got inspiration from aerial images of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in order to paint a contemporary interpretation of the city, dominates the theater of the venue. This is the biggest mural ever in Col-Art’s history, which counted on the collaboration of two of the founders of this art movement: Rossana Durán from Mexico and Marc Kuhn from Switzerland. On the façade another intervention by the street artist Shirley Wintsch, a geometric abstract painting that plays with luminescence effects.
The New Tenerife Fine Arts Center opens on July 4th 2016 with an international collective exhibition, titled » Summer Exhibition Tenerife» in which 118 contemporary artists show their visions and recreations of the summer.
Collective mural in the theater of the new Tenerife Fine Arts Center, the biggest Col-Art’s mural. Photos: Jaime Chinarro. Courtesy Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife.
Preparing the opening
The New Tenerife Fine Arts Center is getting prepared to welcome the summer with the opening from July 4th until September 24th 2016 of the 2nd intl. collective «Summer Exhibition Tenerife». The show, bringing together the work of 118 contemporary artists, from the Canaries and abroad, will feature visions and recreations of the summer and it will be accompanied by events and proposals related to the theme. It also includes an architecture section displaying projects related to natural swimming pools from the island of Tenerife. The public will be offered an extensive visual tour of the social phenomenon that summer becomes every year, since, in the late nineteenth century, coastline was discovered as a new space for leisure, socializing, health and rest.
The enjoyment of nature, light, color, sea, clothing, terraces, beaches, walks, sounds etc. is part of these young artists’ works whose discourse includes life spaces, feelings and impulses typically happening in summer time. The visual pieces are accompanied by literary cites evoking summer by authors like Shakespeare, Antonio Machado, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton and Virginia Wolf.
Tenerife Summer Exhibition 2016
Magic warm scenes along rivers, pools and beaches; bright scenes recalling the freedom of holidays, children playing and adults relaxing; summer landscapes, green and yellow, wild or domesticated, however always full of splendor; outdoor activities, walks along the beach, playing in the sand, getting lost in the countryside, leisure and water sports, outdoor reading, napping on a sun bed under the shade of a tree; the sunlight flooding summer scenes; the brightness evoking heat; the colors of the longer days and shorter nights, from white to blue through red, pink and orange.
Since artists began to paint summer, as Joaquín Sorolla did in «Summer» (1904), Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851-1914) in «Midsummer Eve – Lady» or Vladimir Volegov in his «Summer Wing», the warmest and joyful season has been present in art. Now, in Tenerife, the Fine Arts Centre helps define the state-of-the-art of this theme. The exhibition includes a large sample of how contemporary artists envision the summer spirit. «This is an exhibition born with the will to continue, year after year, showing the connection of summer to art while tackling three cultural issues of great importance to the island of Tenerife: art, landscape and tourism,» said the president of the organization, Mrs. Dulce Xerach.
The 2016 edition of this annual exhibition aims to start engaging economic and social sectors with art and landscape issues while making a significative contribution to the cultural attractions offered by the island to the tourists who enjoy summer on its shores. The curator of the exhibition is Dulce Xerach, a Cultural Management expert who holds a PhD in Architecture.
Façade of the new Tenerife Fine Arts Center by street painter Shirley Wintsch. Courtesy Menis Arquitectos.
Fernando Menis (1951, Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
Architect, PhD in Architecture, Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the European University of Canarias (UEC) and Chairman of the Laboratory for Innovation in Architecture, Design and Advanced Tourism of Tenerife he is constantly invited to seat as a Jury, to conduct workshops or as a Guest Lecturer at Harvard, Columbia NY, ESA Paris, TU Berlin Universities, Akbild Wien Academy and at Architecture Congresses in Switzerland, Australia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, China, South Africa, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Colombia, Mexico .
Trained in architecture in Barcelona, at the beginning of the ’80s, he comes back to Tenerife where he co-founds an architecture firm together with two other partners and together they work until 2004. Later, in 2005, he starts a solitary path funding two new architectural offices – Menis Arquitectos and Fernando Menis – with headquarters in Tenerife and Valencia.
Menis is the author and co-author of a large number of projects. Some of the already-built projects are: CKK “Jordanki” in Torun, Poland (2015), Bürchen Public Square in Bürchen, Switzerland (2015), Insular Athletics Stadium (2007), Magma Art & Congress (2005), Swimming pool on Spree River in Berlin (2004) and Presidency of the Canary Islands Government Building (1999). Some of the on-going projects are: Urban / Coastal Seaside Planning in Boa Vista – Santa Mónica and Chave (Cabo Verde), Three Villas in Lijiang, China, Auditorium in Pájara, Agora Garden and Aurum House in Taiwan, the Holy Redeemer Church in Tenerife, and the Bürchen Mystik Hotel in Bürchen, Switzerland.
Images of works in show at the Summer Exhibition Tenerife 2016, an international collective show of 118 contemporary artists. Courtesy Circulo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife.
World Architecture Festival – WAF 2012 Awarded the 1st prize in the “New & Old” category and “Special Director’s Award” for his “Plaza of Spain in Adeje” project; in 2012 Menis receives the Ambuja Cement Foundation Award in Architecturural Innovation for “The Church in La Laguna” and in 2010, the WAF awarded him with the 2010 Best Future Cultural Project Award for CKK «Jordanki». Menis is also the winner of the Spanish National Architecture and Design Award (PAD 2000), in several occasions, he is a winner of the Canary Islands Regional Architecture Award and he was a finalist at the Architecture and Design Awards – FAD and at the Spanish Architecture Biennale.
Menis was invited to exhibit at several editions of the Architecture Venice Biennale and within the collective exhibition «On-Site» held at the MoMA NY (2006) as well as at legendary architecture galleries such as the Gallery Aedes in Berlin (2006) and the Gallery of Architecture – GA in Tokyo (2009). His project «Holy Redeemer Church in La Laguna» was included in the permanent collection of the MoMA New York.
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We tell you that 2016 ends up being the year in which more international awards have received NEOLITH®, as Sintered Stone, for the set of its unique technical characteristics. And in particular, for two of its models, NEOLITH® Calacatta and NEOLITH® La Bohème, for perfectly replicating the design of the Carrara marble and the authenticity of the wood, respectively. While the NEOLITH® Polished finish has also been recognized with several distinctions, offering a perfectly linear reflection as well as a high degree of gloss on the surface.
In this way, for the first time NEOLITH®, it receives a total of 10 International Awards in just one year, coming from countries as diverse as: Italy, France, Germany, Spain, USA or Canada.
► Fabricadas con fibras naturales, ofrecen multitud de diseños procedentes de la artesanía local de distintas partes del mundo.
VIVIE, marca dedicada a la venta de objetos de interiorismo y decoración presenta Botanicals, su nueva colección de lámparas artesanales para la primavera-verano 2022.
Los interiores decorados con fibras naturales son propuestas llenas de encanto que se convierten en el centro de atención de todas las miradas. De entre todas las piezas, las lámparas ocupan un lugar especial. Proporcionan una belleza imperfecta y única, propia de los objetos artesanales.
Las lámparas de fibras naturales se tejen a partir de fibras extraídas de plantas como el ratán, mimbre, las hojas de palmera, el esparto, el seagrass…. Todas ellas son especies vegetales no protegidas que crecen en gran cantidad, de ahí su carácter ecológico. Son materiales fácilmente reciclables, tanto por ser biodegradables como por la posibilidad de darles un nuevo uso.
Actualmente son una tendencia permanente en la decoración e interiorismo, tanto en invierno como en verano. Su versatilidad permite que se integren a la perfección con cualquier estilo, proporcionando equilibrio estético y creando ambientes cálidos y llenos de armonía. Las pantallas entretejidas ofrecen una iluminación acogedora con una luz natural y envolvente.
Los cuatro materiales esenciales que VIVIE utiliza en su colección son:
• El Ratán procede de una planta trepadora muy abundante en el sudeste asiático. De fibras largas y flexibles, es muy resistente a la lluvia, al agua salada y a otros factores ambientales, por lo que tiene mucha durabilidad. Aportan a la decoración calidez, frescura y aspecto natural. Sus pantallas están hechas de manera artesanal en Indonesia.
• El Seagrass es un material natural trabajado artesanalmente en Indonesia. Está hecho de juncos largos que crecen en el agua, entretejidos y muy resistente a la humedad. El resultado es un tacto muy suave y casi impermeable que repele los líquidos. Muy maleable, permite hacer finos trabajos y por su apariencia brillante en su estado natural resulta de gran acabado estético para las decoraciones naturales con un toque de “glamour”.
• El Esparto procede de una hierba de la familia de las gramíneas de tallo largo muy resistente a la sequía que suele crecer en terrenos pedregosos y áridos. Característica de Marruecos y del sur de Europa, se recolecta cuando está verde para poder arrancar los hilos de los bordes y tejerlos, trenzarlos y generar el esparto. Al principio tiene un color más verdoso y a medida que se va secando va cogiendo un aspecto más amarillento y tostado. Tiene mucha durabilidad a la intemperie por la gran capacidad de retención del agua y capaz de soportar el desgaste del sol.
• La Palma es una planta que pertenece a la familia de las palmeras, cuyo hábitat natural se encuentra en las tierras calcáreas de zonas cálidas no muy elevadas y a corta distancia del mar. Las hojas tienen que ser trabajadas de manera artesanal, con un procedimiento de secado para lograr ese color característico y posterior escaldado para ganar elasticidad y poder ser trenzadas. Es un tejido natural de gran tradición en el Levante español.
“…I do not feel like a utopian, nor an architect, nor a writer, but rather all these things together as they complete each other and it is impossible to separate them.” – Yona Friedman
The Dilution of Architecture presents the development of Yona Friedman’s creative pursuits, the Hungarian architect, artist, and author of Utopies Réalisables (Feasible Utopias). His avant-garde ideas explored new conceptions of the city and ways of life existing on the fringes of “mainstream” architecture, from the second half of the 20th century to nowadays.
The exhibition is based on a programme created for Archizoom by Yona Friedman. The constructed shape experiences dilution as it evolves towards its grand themes: mobile architecture, the spatial city, urban agriculture, network cities, autoplanification, and the role of the architect. At the centre of the space, a video installation showcases an interview with Yona Friedman on the genesis of his vision conducted in the very particular and gainful atmosphere of his Parisian studio. In parallel, various architecture thinkers analyse his creative and philosophical approach within its historical context, as well as within present-day developments.
Through his prioritisation of the process over the object, Friedman lays out an architectural design that accentuates communication prior to the creation of the shape itself. For users to entirely take in his ideas, he puts forth architectural programmes that are reduced to what is essential, comparable to guidelines for a plural society. These are presented within the exhibition through a documenting of his drawings, writings and concepts that are at each and everyone's scale. More than just a collection of projects, the exhibition attempts to comprehend and communicate the seed of such revolutionary thought, which feels all the more relevant today.
Más información:
archizoom.epfl.ch/exhibition
Exhibition from 20th September to 24th October 2012
Monday to Friday, 9.30am–5.30pm / Saturday, 2–6pm
Curator : Nader Seraj
In collaboration with : Emmanuele Lo Giudice Street Museum / Jean-Baptiste Decavèle Slide Shows (animations)_Balkis Production Paris, Le Voyages en Licornie, Iconostase 25 i.s.
With the participation of : Luis Antonio Gutiérrez Cabrero, Marianne Homiridis, Marc Vincent Kalinka, Juan Miguel Hernández León, José Miguel de Prada Poole
Ivorypress has organised a series of guided tours of the exhibition Zaha Hadid. Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design, presented within the architecture programme celebrated each autumn at Ivorypress. These tours will be carried out by professional architects who will offer a personal account of the work of the Iraqi architect.
-Saturday 15 September, 12:30—Taba Rasti.
Taba Rasti is codirector and partner at Foster + Partners in Madrid. She has a degree in architecture from the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura at Politécnica University in Madrid.
-Saturday 29 September, 12:30— Martha Thorne.
(This tour will be given in English, with no interpreter)
Martha Throrne has been executive director of the Pritzker awards since 2005 and is associate dean of the school of Architecture at IE University in Madrid.
-Saturday 6 September, 12:30—Teresa Sapey.
Teresa Sapey is an architect who uses colour as material and medium. Jean Nouvel christened her “Madame Parking” after she designed the parking garage for the Hotel Puerta de América project, in Madrid, a project for which he and Zaha Hadid also designed one floor each.
-Saturday 20 October, 12:30— Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez.
Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez holds a degree in architecture by the University of Virginia, USA. He has been working from his own studio since 1992.
This programme may be subject to change.
Please check the web site a few days before the date.
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