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Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
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Nicholas Grimshaw
British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939) graduated in London in 1965 after travelling and studying in Sweden and the USA. He worked with Terry Farrell in London between 1965 and 1980 on projects including the industrial buildings for Herman Miller in Bath (1976) and Warnington (1978), “works in which design focuses on the relationship between the place of production and the form of the building, in an attentive technological and functional ....
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Richard Meier
One of the leading figures in the world of contemporary architecture, Richard Alan Meier (1934) graduated from the University of Ithaca in 1957. He continued his training until 1963, working at important companies and firms in New York, including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) and Marcel Breuer. The architect opened his own firm in New York in 1963 and his Pasadena office in 1986. Today Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP has branches in New York and Los ....
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Asymptote Architecture
Asymptote stands out as a pioneer of the most advanced digital architectural representation technologies. Founded by Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid in New York, the studio is an international partnership with an approach based on understanding of its clients’ different needs, as expressions of a multiform society that demands understanding and support. Its work ranges from plans for urban areas to industrial design, from cultural centres to installations and projects falling ....