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Points to Consider while choosing Bathroom and Kitchen Tiles

When it comes to planning, designing and choosing products for rooms in a house, perhaps the kitchen and the bathroom take up more careful planning than the others. After all, they are the most used rooms and more importantly the wet rooms of the house.

Even the slightest of slip ups in planning for these rooms could result in undoable damage to the building’s structure, its walls, the woodwork inside and all nearby furniture and accessories. These and the danger of seepage and fungus on walls that make your house ugly and weak, force one to carefully choose the construction products used.

Choosing the best products for a construction project

An architect’s or a designer’s search for the right products for a construction project is a gargantuan task. With fast developing technologies and rapidly evolving designs in the construction space, it is extremely difficult for one person to keep abreast of all changes so they don’t miss out on creating a home or an office with the best possible products.

How best for an architect or designer to search for the right home building products?

An architect’s or a designer’s search for the right products for a construction project is a gargantuan task. With fast developing technologies and rapidly evolving designs in the construction space, it is extremely difficult for one person to keep in abreast of all changes so they you don’t miss out on crafting a home or office with the best possible products.

Supporting bricklaying education on an international stage

Michelmersh has always been at the forefront of supporting educational institutions, donating products and giving Continuing Professional Development (CPD) presentations to colleges and vocational courses across the country. Its goal is to aid in the process of training and educating our promising young bricklayers. The British manufacturer believes it is important to meet the demand for the next generation of craftsmen and women within the construction sector, facilitating their training by providing them with the highest quality products and tools, as well as the most relevant technical information.

Lewis Greenwood, WorldSkills UK Bricklaying candidate at his first training session using Michelmersh products

The dining table as a sculpture

Radar XL and Convivio, the new tables in the Alivar Home Project collection
The dining room designed by Alivar is an elegant but informal place that is enriched with Radar XL and Convivio, two new products that seem to bypass the simple definition of a ‘dining table’, reaching a deeper meaning. Designed byGiuseppe Bavuso for the Home Project collection, Radar XL and Convivio are tables that with their great scenic impact set out to be the unrivalled features of the dining room, becoming true works of sculptural beauty, shaped through the skilful use of fine materials.

Lè Architecture by Aedas wins hearts of global design enthusiasts

Aedas-designed Lè Architecture in Taipei, Taiwan, received the most public votes for Commercial-Office – High Rise (16+ Floors) and won Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards 2018. This year the highly publicised campaign received over 400,000 public votes from more than 100 countries and territories.

Lè Architecture in Taipei, Taiwan by Aedas

Touching the Green: An Award Winning Urban Design Project by PDG Architects

Beylikduzu Municipality Cumhuriyet Street Urban Design Project, designed by PDG Architects, is turning a public space into an open air museum and has aimed to obtain products that are important to humanity and which are not unscaled. Around the idea “Touching the green”, the project has been aimed to create the balance between the green pattern and the settlement. The Kiosk Structure, which has constructed at the first stage of the urban design project, has been awarded with Architect Turgut Cansever National Architecture Awards.

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced 2018 finalists

Six finalist projects in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the United States
At an event in Detroit, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison and 2018 MCHAP Jury Chair Ricky Burdett announced the six finalists for the 2018 Americas Prize:

IMS Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados
Completed: September 2017

This multi-level, stacked cultural building with galleries, library, and cinema on São Paulo’s iconic Paulista Avenue brings the public and pedestrian experience into the structure.

How to Choose the Correct Home Building Products by Architects and Designers ?

Important Aspects that Architects and Designers Take Into Account When Choosing Home Building Products
There is no greater frustration for an architect than to face the end of a construction and realize that the quality of the chosen materials, or the way in which the products were installed, undermine the image of the work that was initially projected. This is why the architect has been getting more and more actively involved in the construction process of his work, see here an opportunity to make a difference with respect to his competition.

Norman Foster visits Amaravati

Lord Foster met Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his team on his visit to Andhra Pradesh to oversee the next stage of design development of the governmental complex of the new state capital, Amaravati. Foster + Partners is designing the central focus of the 217-square-kilometre city, including the design of two key buildings: Legislature Assembly and High Court Complex, along with several secretariat buildings.

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