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9/4/2017
Blaj Cultural Palace
In Blaj, a small Romanian city in the Transylvania Region, the Blaj Cultural Palace has been given a new lease of life after undergoing important renovation works. And today, the Blaj Cultural Palace has regained its place as one of the most…
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8/8/2017
Basel Museum of Art
For lovers of contemporary art or, more importantly, of culture in general, Basel is a city not to be missed, with an extraordinary wealth of museums, exhibition centres and foundations dedicated to art, where the actual containers used to house the…
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9/26/2017
Baladin Farm and Brewery
Since its foundation in 1996, the Baladin brewery, under the lead of the master-brewer Teo Musso, became a well known brand and therefore now needed a bigger production facility. The new plant was built on an existing building and required the best…
News
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7/12/2017
Art Deco and its “roaring years” in Italy
In accordance with its founder Rodolfo Squinzi’s expressed belief that “work can never be separated from art and passion”, for many years now Mapei has been supporting important projects in the realms of art and culture. So, following this general…
Interviews
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10/30/2017
Architectural experimentation and innovation
Filippo Innocenti, Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, tells us about his experience with the “bridge above the tracks” and how it was conceived, designed and built.
Projects
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11/22/2017
Apollo Theatre
100 years after its inauguration in 1912, the Apollo Theatre was reborn: after being shut down in the 1980'8, this gem could not shine in glamour anymore until the local council issued a tender in 2007 to save it. Mapei was on the spot, giving its…
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9/21/2017
Angioino Castle - Apulia
An ancient castle of Southern Italy has been restored. Cannoniers, fortress-like appearance, but also Renaissace balconies and balustrades. A national monument which needed renovation and special studies. Mape-Antique Allettamento was one of the…
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7/12/2017
An innovative solution for existing industrial buildings
The Niccolai Trafile Srl works in Pistoia, an Italian company that has been building drawing machines and equipment used to manufacture pasta and snack foods since the beginning of the last century, needed renovation work to be carried out on the…
Interviews
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7/12/2017
Acoustic comfort in the hotels sector
Amongst the most important factors when choosing a hotel are silence and peace. For a hotel, clients can become regular users if it also offers surroundings which are quiet and peaceful. So we wanted to ask the architect Massimo Casadei from the…
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7/12/2017
A new Auditorium
Seregno's auditorium: a project that includes a concert hall below ground level, a two-storey car-park for 300 vehicles, new council chambers and redevelopment work on the piazza itself and the surrounding roads. To install the wooden flooring, the…
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11/13/2017
48 Restaurant & Bar in Hungary
The restauration of a building of historical interest requires attention to details and long studies. In this case the works lasted two years and required special care for all interiors and exteriors. For the internal walls and floors, the interior…
Sustainability
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1/4/2018
20 years of polyurethanes
Twenty years have gone by since the distant days of 1997 when Enrico Pozzi, an expert in chemistry and polyurethane materials, was taken on by Mapei to head the newly created R&D Polyurethanes group. The same year the company was celebrating the…
