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9/4/2018
New Street Station in Birmingham
Birmingham New Street is the main railway station serving Birmingham, England’s second city. It’s located in the city centre and is a central hub for the British railway system. Around 80% of train services to Birmingham go through New Street. It is…
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7/23/2018
Citylife Shopping District
The CityLife Shopping District, inaugurated in Milan last December, got off on the right foot, also due to the nearby catchment area which includes the more than 5,000 employees of the Allianz and Generali Towers. And in three years’ time, forecasts…
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6/25/2018
Giorgio Amarelli liquorice museum
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…
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4/23/2018
Seine Musicale: a great star on stage
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…
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4/16/2018
Ultratop: versatility and resistance
From industrial settings to museums: functional flooring in line with the latest trends in contemporary design - interview to the architect Giovanna Novella of Mapei Spa.
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4/3/2018
Di Leo biscuit production unit in Matera
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…
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7/12/2017
Serbian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale
The Venice International Architecture Exhibition: the 15th edition of this important event was held from the 28th of May to the 27th of November 2016, with 88 participants from 37 different countries. The theme chosen by the director of the…
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9/4/2017
Seamless floors: Express yourself
A brief introduction to the possibilities available for the seamless flooring sector: from the food and drinks sector to heavy industry or the chemical industry, as well as other solutions for the service sector and shopping centres, right up to…
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7/12/2017
Rewe Market in Cologne
6 months to transform a large warehouse into a supermarket; 2,200 m2 arranged over two storeys offering its clients around 20,000 different items from all over the world. Mapei products have been used to prepare its floorings, such as ULTRATOP and…
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9/21/2017
Rector's Palace in Zadar
Special mortars and finishes and have given the walls of a famous Croatian historical palace new life. The historic terrazzo floor has been treated with a sound Mapei cement-based cycle which could offer the closest effect to the original historical…
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10/30/2017
Naples Afragola Station
Naples Afragola Railway Station was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and was put by CNN news network on the list of highly anticipated works of 2017. Mapei helped construct it by supplying its products.
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9/4/2017
Museum of the Innocenti in Florence
The renovation and redevelopment work on the rooms in the Museum proved to be a technically complex undertaking, as well as delicate, on a Renaissance period building within a time frame that had to be maintained in order to be ready for the…