At the entrance of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp lies a mosaic hailed as "the most beautiful in Belgium." Created by artist Marie Zolamian and installed by Mosaico di Due using Mapei adhesives and grouts, this work celebrates Flemish art…
The restoration work on the façades of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts was a complex conservative operation carried out with innovative materials supplied by Mapei. The façades, badly deteriorated over the years due to bad weather and poor…
In the scenic town of Vordingborg, in Denmark, entrepreneur Peter Halkvist has launched a pioneering concrete and recycling business. By combining two waste streams, crushed ceramic tiles and asphalt, he creates sustainable concrete blocks, reducing…
Extending over an area of 9.5 hectares, the Library of Trees Park is gradually tak-ing shape. It is set to become the central feature of the Porta Nuova district and the third largest public park in the centre of Milan. The park is divided into…
“The 'Adopt a Spire' campaign has another important sponsor: Mapei, which, thanks to the Squinzi family’s generosity and keen interest in art, has decided to sculpt its own name in Milan Cathedral’s marble in response to the appeal made by the…
There is documentary evidence showing that, as far back as the 16th century, the Amarelli family from Rossano (Southern Italy) was already harvesting and selling liquorice. In 1731 the family founded their first extra-agricultural facility to…
The current Lampedusa Courtyard was built in 1538 and two of the most important palazzos of the Palermo aristocracy from the sixteenth century were immediately built opposite each other: the palazzo of the Counts of Raccuia, now known as Palazzo…
Palazzo Belmonte Riso (Belmonte Riso Palace) is one of the most important and monumental buildings in the old part of Palermo and overlooks Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Piazza Bologni.
It was built at the end of the eighteenth century by the Princes…
Palermo has been selected as the Italian Capital of Culture for 2018, a city with which Mapei has always enjoyed an incredibly good relationship and which Mapei has helped embellish and renovate down the years through its products.
In the glass construction of the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, The Westin Hamburg hotel opened its doors on 4th November, 2016 in front of the spectacular backdrop of the city’s port, inviting guests to experience an unique style of accommodation.
The Seine Musicale is a large building with a surface area of 36,500 m2 located in the south-western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. Enclosed within its unique architecture is a large cultural space dedicated entirely to music, from classic to…
Montecchia Golf Club, just a few kilometres from the city of Padua, was founded in 1988 and is a prestigious example of Italian excellence on the international golfing scene. The club is on the site of the property once owned by the Count Emo…
The story of the Di Leo biscuit manufacturing facility started more than 150 years ago, in 1860, when the Di Leo bakery was founded in Altamura (Southern Italy), with the intention to just bake bread made by the local families. In the 1930’s they…
Located in the biomedical district of Parkville, a suburb of Melbourne, the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) was inaugurated in July last year. The hospital complex has become Australia’s leading oncology centre for the research and…