Design and ceramics renew a shopping center
FMG Fabbrica Marmi and architect Paolo Gianfrancesco, of THG Arkitektar Studio, have designed the restyling of the third floor of Reykjavik's largest shopping center. Ceramic, the central element of the project, covers floors, walls and furniture with versatile solutions and distinctive character.
It was put on sale an apartment located within the Belvédère Saint-Christophe, the famous complex on the Puiseau plateau – overlooking the Oise valley – signed by the Spanish architect and urbanist Ricardo Bofill in 1986. In the Axe Majeur district of Cergy-Pontoise, a garden city north-west of Paris, the house overlooks the Place des Colonnes, framing the monumental sculpture of the Israeli artist Dani Karavan that stands at its center.
The Belvédère Saint-Christophe is part of the postmodern movement, which contrasts the modernist desire for formal innovation based on the oblivion of tradition, and reintroduces classical composition and ornament, in a relationship to history that oscillates between the tribute and the pastiche.
Inside the building, each house has a double orientation, which allows to optimize the solar radiation and natural ventilation of the rooms and offers different views of the surrounding landscape.
Tomorrow's energy comes from today's ideas
Enel extends the date to join the international “WinDesign” contest to August 30, 2025. A unique opportunity to imagine the new design of wind turbines.
