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9/2/2025
Torre Velasca offices: open space design meets 1950s heritage
The offices of Milan’s Torre Velasca have been reimagined as open-space environments while preserving their 1950s architectural identity. In collaboration with the local cultural heritage authority, the redesign highlights the original designers’…
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9/2/2025
Velasca Tower: Milan’s iconic skyscraper restored with Mapei solutions
Torre Velasca, a symbol of Milan’s skyline and post-war architecture, has undergone a major renovation and restoration intervention. The project, led by Hines with design by Studio Asti Architetti, preserved its historical identity while modernizing…
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11/12/2024
Restoration work and safety measures for the façades of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin
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…
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Hotels special
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8/20/2024
Façades with a raindrop effect and elegant interiors for the new Equatorial Plaza
The new Equatorial Plaza in Kuala Lumpur, completed in 2019, is the result of a project focusing on innovative design and sustainability. Originally intended as a renovation, the project evolved into a new build, blending hotel and office spaces…
Social responsability
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7/25/2024
Abdoukhadre Kebe mosque in Kaolack, Senegal
The Abdoukhadre Kebe Mosque, located on the outskirts of the city of Kaolack in Senegal, was designed in the 1980’s, but in recent years had started showing signs of deterioration. Mountaga Aidara Kebe, nephew of Abdoukhadre Kebe and an employee of…
Interviews
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6/10/2024
Structural strengthening with low environmental impact: CRM SYSTEM - MAPENET EMR
CRM System - Mapenet EMR Mapei represents a breakthrough in structural strengthening work on buildings that combines low impact on the environment with high performance. We talked about it with Giuseppe Melcangi, Mapei Corporate Product Manager for…
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Rapid products
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4/30/2024
Kursaal Santalucia Theatre
Built in the 1920s, the Kursaal Santalucia Theatre was reopened in 2021 after years of closure thanks to restoration work. Mapei supplied products for structurally strengthening the building and installing wood floors
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3/15/2024
Have faith in history: Notre Dame reconstructed to how it used to be
We spoke with Professor Carlo Blasi, Works Management consultant for the restoration work: project drawings by Eugène Violet Le-Duc and the construction works journal to bring the cathedral in Paris back to its original glory.
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2/14/2024
Notre Dame: an extraordinary work of restoration
On April 15, 2019, a serious fire struck the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Since then, the most important phases of restoration have been completed, and every day work is being done to restore the monument to its former splendor.
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8/28/2023
A SPA centre the size of a city
Mapesoil technology was used for the redevelopment of the Fiuggi Golf Club, set in a lush naturalistic landscape.
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Restoration of modern architecture
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5/18/2022
The Church of Santa Maria Annunciata
Façade restoration and safety measures implemented on the upper part of a place of worship designed by Gio Ponti
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Restoration of modern architecture
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5/18/2022
Knowledge and awareness: the foundations of restoration work
The premise to safeguarding contemporary architecture is a thorough survey of the building from a historic, materic and construction perspective: Mapei’s proposal
