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The International Surface Event (TISE) has announced that online registration for Las Vegas 2016, to be held from 19 to 22 January, is now officially open.

An exhibition entitled "Artist's Profile - 40 years of contemporary work" was inaugurated on 25 November at Schlüter-Systems' headquarters in Fiorano Modenese to mark 40 years of the artistic output of Adriano Venturelli. The company took the opportunity to celebrate the 40th anniversary of…

The competition is divided into two categories, Young and Senior, both tasked with designing high-performance, eco-sustainable extractor hoods made of Cristalplant®.

The winning project at the awards ceremony held on 20 November was Zamora Offices by the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. Italy's winner of the national prize was the project Pedevilla Pliscia 13 in Marebbe, by Pedevilla Architects of Brunico (in the Italian province of Bolzano).

The centrepiece of this second edition is the theme of renewability, with seminars dedicated to the subject, plus an exhibition curated by MATREC, artistic installations and the RE•ARCHITECTURE photo gallery, which will showcase a pan-European range of re-integration projects.

Open to the public until 10 December, the exhibition was inaugurated on Friday 20 November, with a preview that included a "role play" between the architect Pier Carlo Bontempi and the audience, moderated by Maria Grazia Villa.

The German Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 swept aside the competition to win FAMAB-Awards in no less than three categories: gold for "Best Public Event", gold for "Best Interactive Installation" and bronze for "Best Thematic Exhibition".

The 78 statues in the piazza were restored to their former glory by cleaning with Hydrorep, followed by protective treatment with Filaalgae Net, to protect them against dirt and bacterial attack.

The well known Italian project by Boeri Studio received the award on 12 November from the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, by beating world-class competition in the form of the One World Trade Center in New York, the CapitaGreen in Singapore and the Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower in…

Oikos, a major Venice-based manufacturer of security doors, has used its know-how to create a reproduction of the front door of a 500-year-old building, in such a way that it retains the full appeal of the historic, chiselled wood entrance, framing a set of arched glass panels.

Designed by Marcio Kogan and Mariana Ruzante of MK27, a Brazilian firm of architects, this flexible two-seater bath tub is shaped in such a way as to offer a relatively small footprint.

In the wake of last year's Special Mention for the Agorà radiator, Scaletta, designed by Elisa Giovannoni, has now won the Bath and Wellness category.

Commissioned by the V-A-C Foundation from the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the project involves the conversion of the former GES2 power station, in the Red October district of central Moscow, into a museum of contemporary art.

The innovative mixer tap designed by the Florentine architect Marco Pisati for Gattoni Rubinetteria has won a Special Mention for its unique originality at pan-European level.

The spectacular new landmark developed by Casalgrande Padana was created by the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, and follows on from the earlier Ceramic Cloud – the first work on Italian soil by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

Once again Mapei support the Guggenheim Foundation with a contribution to the retrospective entitled "Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting" inaugurated on 9 October and on display until 6 January 2016 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Treatment systems by FILA Surface Care Solutions have been used to clean up one of the world's oldest and most famous underground stations, and to restore the non-slip properties of the flooring.

The Austria Pavilion is a combination of architectural solutions and futuristic urban design, which takes full advantage of the performance of nature.

The winners of the National Award, the Grand Prix and the Young Architects Special Mention will be revealed in Berlin on 20 November.

The International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings was attended by over 101,800 visitors, 0.8% more than 2014, including 48,235 international attendees (1,632 more than in 2014, an increase of 3.5%), who accounted for 47.4% of the total.