Grand Prix for ceramics

The registrations for Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix – an international award created to enhace ceramics’ architectural applications – are now open.

Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix, X edizione 2013-2015

Created in 1990 to reward those works that make the most of the technical properties and expressive potentials of Casalgrande Padana ceramic solutions, edition after edition the Grand Prix international architecture award saw the use of stoneware grow exponentially in works of remarkable architectural value, while at the same time spreading to many different scopes and uses in terms of applications and the way designers and architects view its potential.

This development of the material and its many uses went together with a similar development of the award, which over the years has enhanced its international appeal and took an increasingly key role in institutional and visibility terms, standing as one of the most remarkable cultural initiatives on the ceramic for architectural application business.

This year’s edition, whose overall jackpot amounts, is open to all designers presenting one or more of their work – made in the 2013-2015 period – provided the projects included Casalgrande Padana material.

The award is open to projects involving floors and wall cladding used for indoor and outdoor public and private projects, civil architecture, malls and office centres, collective housing and private residences, industrial and specialised facilities, public spaces as well as new buildings and refurbishing and renovation projects. An international jury comprising of known designers and contemporary design and architecture scholars will evaluate the projects.

submission until December 31, 2015
Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix

Marble matters– exploring Carrara’s legacy

Sixteen young international architects took part in two intensive training days in Carrara, organized by FUM Academy and YACademy, featuring visits to the marble quarries and a design workshop focused on the use of the material.