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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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Bjarke Ingels - BIG
BIG, founded by Bjarke Ingels in 2005, is one of the world’s most advanced studios in the definition of urban scenarios and horizons. BIG has worked on numerous projects all over the world, all sharing a visionary view and an interest in innovative theories about contemporary society and lifestyles. Its two offices in Copenhagen and New York bring together professionals from all over the world, promoting cultural exchange as a source of wealth in design. The ....
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Arata Isozaki
An architect, urban planner and architectural theorist, Arata Isozaki (1931) is regarded as one of the masters of contemporary Japanese architecture. Born in Ōita, on the island of Kyushu in Japan, Isozaki was a teenager at the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. The memory of that experience helped him to develop his theory that buildings are transitory and maintain a bond with man. In this respect, he stated: “when I was old enough to begin an ....
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Herzog & de Meuron
A point of reference in contemporary architecture, the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron was established in 1978 by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both born in Basel in 1950 and graduated from Zurich Polytechnic in 1975 (Aldo Rossi was one of their instructors). Both Herzog and de Meuron combine teaching with their professional architecture work; they taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1994 and have taught at Eth Polytechnic in Basel since 1999. ....