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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pallacanestro Reggiana’s 2016-17 season ended at the quarter-finals of the championship play-offs: the team from Reggio Emilia was knocked out by Avellino and forced to settle for qualifying for the Eurocup
From 16th to 18th November 2016 the Italian Mapei’s C-ADD team participated in the twenty-first edition of the Arab International Cement Conference and Exhibition (AICCE21), which was organized by AUCBM (Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials)…
ASD Benedetto XIV 2011 is an historical basketball team from Cento, in the Province of Ferrara, and was founded in 1964. The extension project for the arena, which is owned by the club and is now known as Pala Ahrcos, was presented to the public…