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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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Metrogramma
Metrogramma, founded in 1999 by partners Andrea Boschetti (1969) and Alberto Francini (1969), is an architecture, urban planning and interior design studio with offices in Milan, Moscow and New York and branches in London and Dubai. The two architects graduated respectively from the Universities of Venice and Florence and gained professional experience working for firms such as those of Rem Koolhaas and Massimiliano Fuksas. Francini stayed with Metrogramma until 2017, ....
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Dominique Perrault
French architect and urban planner Dominique Perrault (1953) opened his professional studio in Paris in 1981. His first appointments included construction of a school of engineering and an industrial building in Paris (completed between 1987 and 1990) testifying to the cultural and technical modernisation of France at that time. These are two elements that recur frequently throughout the architect’s production, often underlining “the ....
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Carlos Ferrater
A native of Barcelona, Carlos Ferrater (1944) has worked mainly in Spain. Beginning his career in the early Seventies, he founded the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB) in 2006, alongside Lucía Ferrater, Borja Ferrater and Xavier Martí (respectively children and spouse). Since 1971 and throughout his long career Ferrater has combined his professional career with academia. His body of work reveals a highly personal trajectory and construction ....