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iF award - ZERO.4

Zero.4 wins a product design award in the category “public design / interior design”.

As an independent institution iF has been exercising a decisive mediating role between design and industry for many years. One of its main role is to enhance the public awareness of the importance of design. Winning an iF product design award will continue to mean what winning an iF design award has always meant in the past: enhancing appreciation for excellent design !!

Zero.4 wins a product design award in the category “public design / interior design”.

This is a very satisfactory result for Artigo and Sottsass Associati, as first good impressions are once more confirmed by a fair and qualified jury.

Red-dot award - ZERO.4

Zero.4 wins a further important design award, the Red-dot!

Since 1955, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen has been marking outstanding international product design with is famous dot. In 2000, Design Innovations – as the competition was previously called – was given a new, international name: the red dot award: product design. Manufacturers and designers of a wide variety of industrial products can enter their work all year round in thirteen product groups for the coveted red dot award. And the number of entries grows year by year…

During the contest 2008, 3.203 products have been submitted, coming from 51 countries.

ZERO.4 wins a red dot award in the category "product design".

Kindergarten in France

This prestigious reference is  located in Grasse, in the south of France,  and it is named “Bastide Du Peyrard”.

Designed by the Cannes based architectural studio Atelier ANNICK ANTOINE, it had to meet  3 simple and strict requirements: « design, harmony, and respect for the environment ».

Thanks to funding from  General Council of the Maritime Alps, this project is considered as a pilot scheme of high quality standards within a reasonable budget.
The renovation of an existing   Provençal building  had to be well integrated with the surrounding environment, flaunting advanced architectural solutions as well.

Due to the “environmental policy”,the final choice awarded rubber thanks also to its typical characteristics: wear resistance, safety, acoustic, bio-compatibility and low emission of VOC.

The product chosen for a quantity of 1.100 sqm was MULTIFLOOR ND-UNI colour U17

IFAD Headquarter in Rome, Italy

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. the new headquarter has just opened in Rome, Italy.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference.

IFAD is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries. Seventy-five per cent of the world's poorest people - 720 million women, children and men - live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.

Working with rural poor people, governments, donors, non-governmental organizations and many other partners, IFAD focuses on country-specific solutions, which can involve increasing rural poor peoples' access to financial services, markets, technology, land and other natural resources.

The headquarter office in Rome, on a surface of 15.000 sqm, presents rubber flooring by Artigo in a special plain colour tone. The product used is Multifloor Nd-Uni in rolls, 3mm thickness.

Artigo in the SKY

The new SKY Italia  headquarters just moved in a new renovated area in Milan.
Designers of the project are Byron Harford & Associates (Australia) and Urbam Studio (Italy).
Artigo rubber flooring has been selected on a surface of 14.000 sqm. 

SKY Italia is the most important digital  pay-tv  company operating in Italy (with aprx 5mln users). The new headquarters in Italy just moved in a new renovated area in Milan, near Rogoredo station. 

The project provides administrative and television production facilities and involves the construction of a complex totally approximately 76.000 sqm at a total developement cost of 300 mln euro.
The complex is composed of three buildings. Building 1 (the technological building) is equipped for television production, while 2 and 3 are office buildings. Building 1 is connected to Building 2, which in turn is connected to Building 3 by a multilevel bridge suspended above street level. 

Designers of the project are  Byron Harford & Associates (Australia) and  Urbam Studio (Italy).
Artigo rubber flooring has been selected on a surface of 14.000 sqm. Terrazzo (embossed rubber tiles with coloured speckles) in 3 mm thickness has been directly glued on raised access flooring panels. This construction solution allows to keep high flexibility, key issue of the project considering the huge cable networking.  

ISO 14001

Artigo meets the ISO 14001 international specification for an environmental management system (EMS).
It specifies requirements for establishing an environmental policy, determining environmental aspects and impacts of products/activities/services.

The ISO 14000 environmental management standards have been established to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land) and comply with applicable laws and regulations.
ISO 14001, in particular is the international specification for an environmental management
system (EMS). It specifies requirements for establishing an environmental policy, determining environmental aspects and impacts of products/activities/services. The overall idea is to establish an organized approach to systematically reduce the impact of the environmental aspects which an organization can control. Effective tools for the analysis of an organization and for the generation of options for improvement are provided by the concept of Cleaner Production.

DNV (Det Norske Veritas), international independent foundation has just certified that Artigo S.p.A. complies all the requirements to get the ISO 14001 certification.

Podgorica University

5.000 sqm of rubber flooring installed into the University of Montenegro.

The University of Montenegro was founded on 29 April 1974.

A brand new building has recently been completed; computer rooms, common spaces and teaching rooms, on a surface of 5.000 sqm, have been designed using a selection of colours and products coming from the latest Artigo-Sottsass collection.

Kayar range

Kayar gets to 24 colours.

Based on the success achieved during 2008, we have decided to improve the colour range of kayar. 

8 new colours are now available, bringing the range to a total of 24.

GOOD DESIGN AWARD

Ebony and Zero.4 has received the 2008 Good Design Award - the long-standing international award from the Chicago Athenaeum, the Museum of Architecture and Design of Chicago - for the “Floor/Wallcovering” category.

Ebony and Zero.4 has received the 2008 Good Design Award - the long-standing international award from the Chicago Athenaeum, the Museum of Architecture and Design of Chicago - for the “Floor/Wallcovering” category.

Founded back in 1950 with the collaboration of leading designers, including Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Girard and Russel Wright, the Good Design Award confirms its position as one of the most important international awards. It is awarded every year to the most innovative top-quality designs that offer a highly original and aesthetic content. In 2008, the panel of judges selected over 500 designs from 48 different countries.

Added to Reddot and iF award, the Good Design Award proves once more the excellence of the job done by Artigo S.p.A. in collaboration with Sottsass Associati.

Rodari School in Bolzen

Accent colours  typify the full rennovation of Rodari School located in Bolzen, Italy. 

On a surface of 1200 sqm Artigo Kayar has been installed, mainly in the acid green colour K72, matched with more neutral tones like the “ivory” K73 and the dark grey K01.

The project is marked by a technical design: wide windows and indirect light help to increase this effect, but the actual key feature is the use of colour, uniformly moving  from floor to walls.

A special enamel paint, based on the same RAL colour of the flooring, has been used in order to give the impression of an unique architectural element:  flooring / stairs / wall.

Renovation has been designed by the Area Architetti Associati, based in Bolzen.

Artigo at FuoriSalone 2009

Artigo, in collaboration with Powerplate, displays ZERO.4 at Università Statale of Milan located in Festa del Perdono street n.7.

On the occasion of FuoriSalone®2009, INTERNI promotes, during the Milan Design Week (21 - 27 April 2009), the big Event INTERNI DESIGN ENERGIES, dedicated to the concept of ENERGY interpreted from the ‘humanistic’ viewpoint, as the expression of the best intellectual production presented, in this case, in the form of design and invention, and from the more ordinary viewpoint of the use of alternative energy sources and the optimization of the use of conventional sources, further developing the experience started last April with the GreenEnergyDesign exhibition.

Sustainability, bioconstructions, environmentally-friendly architecture, eco-design. There are many ways to describe what appears, at this point, to be an obligatory path for construction and the production of useful objects: the design of responsibility.

Artigo, in collaboration with Powerplate, fully embodies the spirit of this venture displaying ZERO.4 at Università Statale of Milan located in Festa del Perdono street n.7.

 

 

University Library in Denmark

3.300 sqm of Multifloor Nd-Uni installed in the Copenhagen   University’s new Humanities Library.

University library and library archive rooms Copenhagen, Denmark

Phase one: 1998
Phase two: 2008

Closed competition 1994: First prize

Floor area:  13,300 m2
Artigo: 3.300 m2 Multifloor Nd- Uni, 3mm, rolls 1,90x10 lm, U17.

Client: The Danish Ministry of Culture / The Danish Royal Library
Owner’s consultant: Byggedirektoratet / Danish Building Directorate (phase one) and Moe & Brødsgaard (phase two)
Architect and design/build consultant: DISSING+WEITLING
Landscape Architect: Sven Kierkegaard
Engineer: Rambøll
Artistic decoration: Vibeke Mencke Nielsen and Martin Erik Andersen
Prize: G-Mark Award for Good Design
Photography: DISSING+WEITLING / Henrik Gurskov

Art Institute of Chicago- Modern Wing

Renzo Piano chose 2300 Sqm Artigo ND/UNI for the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the Ryan Education Centre of the Art Institute of Chicago  the world famouse architect Renzo Piano chose  a total amount of 2.300 sqm of Artigo ND/UNI has been in a special red colour (RAL 2002).This joyful hue of  red inspires happiness to the young boys and girls that use to attend the educational centre, and is visible from the big glass windows facing Chicago’s amazing Millennium Park.
Wear resistance, acoustic insulation and easy cleaning (thanks to PRO coating) has put rubber in pole-position in architect choice.

This peculiar part of the Modern Wing of the Art Institute is a perfect place where young minds can grow and families can spend time together making art, reading picture books or seeing family expositions. Artigo is proudly part of it.