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Cover photograph: HOTEL BARCELÓ ASIA<br />
GARDENS & THAI SPA, ALICANTE (SPAIN).<br />
LIFESTYLE STAFF<br />
EDITORIAL BOARD<br />
Cristina Colonques<br />
Ricardo Ferrer<br />
Francisco Peris<br />
Félix Balado<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
Ediciones Condé Nast S.A.<br />
MANAG<strong>ING</strong> EDITOR<br />
Sandra del Río<br />
ART & DESIGN DIRECTOR<br />
Vital R. García<br />
TRANSLATORS<br />
Paloma Gil (English)<br />
Geneviève Naud (French)<br />
Lionbridge (Russian)<br />
COPY EDITOR<br />
Sarah E. Rogers (English)<br />
COORDINATION<br />
Marta Sahelices (Project Coordinator)<br />
Andrea Morán (Print Edition)<br />
Blanca Jiménez de la Hoz (Features)<br />
Sukeina Aali-Taleb (Features)<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
David Monfil<br />
Alex del Río<br />
Pepe Botella<br />
PRODUCTION<br />
Francisco Morote (Director)<br />
Rosana Vicente<br />
Juan Ignacio Bocos<br />
Fernando Bohúa<br />
ARCHIVES<br />
Reyes Domínguez (Director)<br />
Irene Rodríguez<br />
Eva Vergarachea<br />
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Catalogue no.: M-51752-2002<br />
Editorial<br />
Far-sighted projects<br />
There are companies that join in successful projects, whereas other<br />
companies, like <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, generate successful and far-sighted<br />
projects. The <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Interior Design Contest, and subsequently<br />
the award presentation to four big projects, were held in Valencia in a<br />
multitudinous event with a debate forum that served as a meeting point<br />
for the professionals from the world of design and architecture of today<br />
and tomorrow. The current situation of the sector was analysed, as were<br />
the challenges and possibilities both in the present and for the future. Also<br />
discussed were the new values of the industry and the need for betting<br />
on “the creative muscle”. It is on these occasions when a company like<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group puts forwards all its values, created and maintained<br />
thanks to the talent, entrepreneurial skills and teamwork of the eight<br />
brands that make up the Group. There are no chances in this success<br />
– there is solidity and devotion, and the best professionals associated to<br />
each project. In <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, all efforts are concentrated on<br />
the field of innovation and the quest for new and optimal materials in<br />
order to strengthen the<br />
technology used and<br />
the beauty of shapes, as<br />
well as to pay the due<br />
respect to the natural<br />
environs and to the new<br />
challenges of an everevolving<br />
world.<br />
Photograph of the jury in Valencia: Fernando Salas, Mauricio Anglada,<br />
Isabel López, Alfaro Hofmann, Joan Lao, Cristina Colonques, Tomás Alía.
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Contents/<strong>16</strong><br />
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We discover the new headquarters of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> in Miami, Mexico, Lisbon and<br />
Mérida. And we enjoy Formula 1 races.<br />
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Those awarded in the<br />
Third Edition of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Interior<br />
Design Contest accept their prizes during<br />
the First Interior Design Conference<br />
by <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>.<br />
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Luca di Montezemolo: The soul of Ferrari.<br />
30<br />
Joaquín Torres<br />
shows off his architecture work.<br />
36<br />
Hotels: The latest in exterior design and<br />
landscaping.<br />
44<br />
Interiors & fashion: A perfect couple.<br />
56<br />
The Hotel Gasterij de Roode Schuur<br />
interacts with its surrounding environment.<br />
60<br />
Abu Dhabi: It is so... It’ll be so.<br />
68<br />
Alfonso Casares explains his working<br />
method and how a hospital is designed.<br />
72<br />
The great eight: The eight brands of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group exhibit their novelties at<br />
the 17th International Ceramics,<br />
36 Kitchen & Bathroom Show.<br />
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Gamadecor wins at Milan International<br />
Kitchen Furniture Exhibition.<br />
84<br />
An urban spa in Madrid: So that you can<br />
care for yourself in a better way.<br />
86<br />
Urbatek, a brand in demand among the<br />
best specialists.<br />
88<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> in the world.<br />
90<br />
We’ll be talking about...<br />
Santiago Calatrava in New York.<br />
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<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> opens a<br />
new shop in Mexico City in<br />
the exclusive company of several outstanding<br />
guests: Isabel Preysler, the firm’s image for<br />
ABOVE (clockwise) Julio<br />
Iglesias Jr., Mexican actress<br />
Ana de la Reguera, Tamara<br />
Falcó, Carlos Baute,<br />
Isabel Preysler, Mexican<br />
over 25 years (she has just arrived from actor Eduardo Verástegui,<br />
the opening of another establishment in Genoveva Casanova and<br />
Miami); her children Tamara Falcó and Julio<br />
Iglesias Jr.; the latter’s girlfriend, Charisse;<br />
two renowned Mexican actors, Ana de la<br />
Julio’s girlfriend Charisse.<br />
BELOW Courtyard of the<br />
exclusive bankers’ club in<br />
which the opening was<br />
Reguera (who has recently starred in a celebrated.<br />
film along with Bruce Willis) and Eduardo OPPOSITE PAGE<br />
Verástegui (also a producer and singer);<br />
Genoveva Casanova, a Mexican too, and the<br />
inexhaustible singer Carlos Baute. The event,<br />
Mexican Eduardo<br />
Verástegui, Ana de la<br />
Reguera and Genoveva<br />
Casanova share a photo<br />
celebrated in the exclusive bankers’ club of<br />
the city, was also attended by executives of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, including its President,<br />
with singer Carlos Baute.<br />
8 Manuel Colonques, and representatives of the<br />
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Mexico City also<br />
welcomes <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>
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companies Gilsa, distributor of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
in Monterrey, and Palacio de Hierro.<br />
The new commercial space, located in<br />
Colonia Valle Dorado, has an area of 17,000<br />
square metres, of which approximately 2,000<br />
will be devoted to the display and sale of the<br />
company’s products: from the latest trends<br />
in ceramic floors and coverings to the most<br />
current kitchens, along with elegant designs<br />
for floorings in wood or natural stone, and an<br />
exhaustive range of bathroom furniture and<br />
gear. This shop will consolidate the presence<br />
of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> in the city, as it already<br />
opened to visitors another shop in Interlomas<br />
last year. /<br />
ABOVE Isabel Preysler with her<br />
daughter and actor Eduardo<br />
Verástegui.<br />
LEFT (clockwise) Directors<br />
of Gilsa, the distributor of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> in Monterrey:<br />
Gilberto Villarreal, Adrian<br />
Villarreal, and Eloísa Villarreal.<br />
Silvestre Segarra, <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
advisor, and Inés del Hoyo,<br />
José María Blanco, José Luis<br />
del Hoyo and Ignacio Reynoso,<br />
from Palacio de Hierro.<br />
BELOW LEFT Manuel<br />
Colonques, President of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong>, accompanied by<br />
Genoveva Casanova and Ana<br />
de la Reguera.<br />
BELOW RIGHT Isabel;<br />
Julio Iglesias Jr.; Tamara and<br />
Charisse.
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Welcome to Miami<br />
In the Doral area, and after<br />
an exhaustive redecoration<br />
and an extension of its facilities,<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> has just reopened to visitors its Miami<br />
shop, a space with new bathroom collections and<br />
kitchen furniture and fittings, wardrobes and walk-in<br />
wardrobes. The opening had the invaluable presence<br />
of Isabel Preysler, elegant as ever, and her daughter<br />
Chábeli. This was the first of Isabel’s engagements<br />
in the American continent, since some days later she<br />
would travel to Mexico City to preside the opening of<br />
a new establishment of the firm.<br />
Thus, two new spaces have recently been added<br />
to the array of commercial outlets that <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
has opened around the world. Actually, with the<br />
Miami shop, first opened in 1999, the firm has a<br />
total of 15 shops distributed all across the United<br />
States, since back in 1986 it landed with its first<br />
establishment in Anaheim, Los Angeles.<br />
The Miami shop, with impressive views of the city,<br />
has a renewed showroom of about 1,800 square<br />
metres to display the brand’s products, and an office<br />
area of 900 square metres distributed between two<br />
floors. In addition, it has an extensive parking area<br />
for the visitors’ convenience, and an automated<br />
logistics centre of 7,650 square metres.<br />
Among the attendees to the cocktail party<br />
celebrating the reopening of the upgraded space,<br />
apart from Isabel Preysler and her elder daughter,<br />
were many outstanding people of the city, along with<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> directors and exceptional guests. /<br />
New headquarters in Mérida<br />
“The new shop is<br />
wonderful, and I am<br />
impressed!” Eugenia Martínez de<br />
Irujo showed this warmth during the recent<br />
opening of the new shop of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Group in Mérida. The establishment will replace<br />
the Spanish company’s old headquarters in this<br />
city, which has been present in the Extremadura<br />
Autonomous Community for more than 15<br />
years. With more spacious facilities – an area of<br />
2,500 square metres for the display and sales<br />
of the products from the eight brands of the<br />
Group – the new shop is located in one of the<br />
city’s best commercial areas, the Commercial<br />
Park Copansa.<br />
The opening event, attended by around<br />
900 guests, gathered many outstanding<br />
Eugenia Martínez de Irujo accompanied by former torero<br />
José María Manzanares and Manuel Colonques, President of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, who received the Duchess in the new<br />
headquarters of the Spanish company in Mérida.<br />
Isabel Preysler, in a dress from Marta Rota,<br />
and Chábeli Iglesias, wearing a design<br />
from Badgley Mischka (both sporting<br />
jewellery from Suárez), pose in the new<br />
Miami shop, surprising for its modern<br />
design and its views.<br />
ABOVE Isabel Preysler and her daughter<br />
with the President and directors of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong>.<br />
people from the social and entrepreneurial<br />
spheres, and had also the presence of wellknown<br />
personalities, like the famous former<br />
torero José María Manzanares and the<br />
businessman Tomás Terry, both united by a<br />
long-standing friendship with <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>:<br />
their countryside properties have many<br />
products from the Group, chosen for their<br />
great quality and innovative designs.<br />
The Duchess of Montoro responded<br />
warmly to all the affection she received<br />
in the opening event of the new Mérida<br />
shop and expressed her gratitude towards<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, of which she<br />
asserted: “I really love all the materials<br />
they have to decorate the whole house.<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> is a great company.” /
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<strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
illuminates Lisbon<br />
Swedish model Helen Swedin has been<br />
the one in charge of presenting the new shop of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group in Lisbon, sited in Avenida Infante D. Henrique (next<br />
to Parque de las Naciones). An opening in which the 1,200 attendees<br />
had the opportunity of seeing for themselves the ample showroom in<br />
which all collections from the Group will be exhibited. With this new space<br />
– of about 2,000 m2 – <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> has already four outlets in the<br />
Portuguese country (the other shops are located in Port, Viseu and the<br />
Algarve).<br />
The new shop in Lisbon highlights once more the overtly international<br />
import of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group and its strong international expansion: its<br />
commercial infrastructure surpasses 400 shops all over the world. More<br />
than 35 years of experience add to this, making it a solid corporation that<br />
never forgets to offer a close relationship and personalised attention to<br />
its customers. /<br />
ABOVE Helen with<br />
Pedro Tarouco, Managing<br />
Director of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Lisbon, and Héctor<br />
Colonques, President of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group.<br />
BELOW Details of the<br />
showroom and guests<br />
during the day of the<br />
presentation.<br />
Photos: ©VICTOR FREITAS.
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A Grand-Prix<br />
weekend<br />
3 00 among the best clients of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, including architects, interior<br />
designers, installers and important European distributors, had the<br />
opportunity of enjoying the European Formula One Grand Prix held<br />
in Valencia in the most exclusive and luxurious style of all: from a<br />
VIP terrace reserved by <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> to witness both the official<br />
rehearsal and the race itself. But the attentions did not end there, as<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> wanted to entertain its clients with different events, such<br />
as the exquisite welcome cocktail party celebrated in the top terrace of<br />
the Butech office building (these new premises occupy 60,000 m²) and<br />
prepared by Gourmet Paradís. Or the supper at the Restaurant Mar de<br />
Bamboo, in the peculiar Veles e Vents Building, designed by architect<br />
David Chipperfield on the Port of Valencia and that can be found just in<br />
the heart of the Formula One circuit. /<br />
TOP A detail of the Formula<br />
One urban circuit in Valencia.<br />
ABOVE VIP terrace<br />
reserved by <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>.<br />
LEFT Cristina Colonques,<br />
Director of the Corporative<br />
Communication &<br />
Marketing Division of<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, with<br />
Serafin Guinot, from the<br />
Marketing team of Butech,<br />
who has coordinated<br />
the event. Terrace of the<br />
Butech office building<br />
during the welcome<br />
cocktail party, in which<br />
Pepe Fenollosa, Managing<br />
Director of Butech, is<br />
talking with a customer.
III DESIGN CONTEST<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
For one more year, the 3rd Edition of the PORCELANOSA<br />
DESIGN CONTEST, whose aim is to promote the artistic<br />
activities of novel and future professionals, has awarded<br />
the creativity, functionality and viability of the projects<br />
entered into the contest. The ideas have been awarded<br />
with a cash prize of �10,000 in the Professional category,<br />
and �3,000 in the Student category. Moreover, on the<br />
occasion of this contest, PORCELANOSA GROUP<br />
organised a Conference on Interior Design that attracted<br />
leading professionals from the sector.<br />
THE JURY<br />
Seven experts made up the jury of the 3rd<br />
Edition of the <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Design Contest<br />
– including architect Teresa Sapey, who could not<br />
attend (clockwise).<br />
Fernando Salas His teaching experience is<br />
as extensive as his list of prizes and mentions.<br />
Mauricio Inglada Although he was not part of<br />
the jury, the Managing Director of L’Antic Colonial<br />
was present the day of the award decision.<br />
Isabel López This interior designer came just<br />
after being awarded the Iplus Prize for the best<br />
hotel project for her Hotel EME in Sevilla.<br />
Alfaro Hofmann An industrial designer who<br />
knows a great deal more than just about daily<br />
objects.<br />
Joan Lao An icon of international design, this<br />
creator from Barcelona is above all things a major<br />
conceptual artist.<br />
Cristina Colonques Director of the<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group’s Communication &<br />
Corporative Marketing Division.<br />
Tomás Alía He is one of the most soughtafter<br />
interior architects.<br />
GENERAT<strong>ING</strong> THE FUTURE<br />
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III DESIGN CONTEST<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
THE WINN<strong>ING</strong> PROFESSIONAL PROJECT HONOURABLE MENTION<br />
mLH3<br />
RIVER<br />
The River project, winner of the 3rd Edition<br />
of the <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Design Contest, is based<br />
on a small separate loft of 70 m 2 built over a<br />
riverbed which includes a large hydraulic wheel<br />
that supplies energy.<br />
The house is divided into lounge, bedroom,<br />
kitchen-diner, bathroom and terrace. The kitchen<br />
is at 30 centimetres below the general level of<br />
the loft, and the bedroom 30 centimetres above,<br />
which also helps to adequately differentiate the<br />
spaces.<br />
The large wheel, glazed and placed inside<br />
the house, becomes a dominant element and<br />
provides the bedroom with a certain privacy from<br />
the rest of the house.<br />
The exterior facade is covered in two kinds<br />
of granite, sunset and coal, so as to enhance<br />
the different zones from the very outside. From<br />
bathroom to kitchen, the loft features products<br />
from the Group, like the shower tray made in<br />
Krion.<br />
The Honourable Mention in the Professional<br />
category of the 3rd Edition of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Design Contest has gone to the Project MLH3,<br />
an isolated single-family house-garden, although<br />
its rectangular shapes allow, by changing the<br />
position of the garden, to join it with a multi-family<br />
building. The control of natural light is outstanding,<br />
like the separation of the cleared space that turns<br />
translucent and allows a homogenous artificial<br />
lighting (a face in Krion with high content in<br />
retro reflective polyester). The face supports the<br />
furniture associated to the living room, dining<br />
room and kitchen; the garden is raised and<br />
transforms itself to shelter the house’s movable<br />
furniture – furniture belonging to a collection of<br />
regular, mobile pieces, made in Krion and teak.<br />
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III DESIGN CONTEST<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
AWARDED STUDENT PROJECT HONOURABLE MENTION<br />
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE<br />
FOUR GIANTS...<br />
NOHGAKU<br />
The project awarded in the Student category, based on the theatre<br />
The Honourable mention has gone to the project<br />
Once Upon a Time There Were Four Giants... Made<br />
in natural stone, four “giants” emerge in two heights.<br />
concept Nohgaku (contrasts), is a loft conveying a duality between the<br />
The central one becomes the central character of<br />
private and public space, but its spaces are fully connected in an open-<br />
the play and, through a dialogue with the other three,<br />
plan inherent to the loft concept. It has been projected as a big hollowed<br />
generates the whole project: its spaces, passages,<br />
out marble cube in which three wooden boxes are inserted creating the<br />
lighting, etc. In addition, these “giants” hold parts of the<br />
spaces of the Noh stage (mirror-office room, bridge-passage area and<br />
programme inside with no interruption of the spatial<br />
stage-bedroom), and its design is austere, far from flashy. The fourth space<br />
continuity, but responding to the need of a visual break<br />
(dressing room-bathroom-walk-in wardrobe) is made up by the very hollow<br />
and a sort of public privacy. The four “giants” made<br />
in the marble. The public space, Kyogen, shaped in the reverse way, is<br />
in natural stone are quartzite bricks whose shapes<br />
completely open and the only multi-purpose common space. A stage that<br />
vary according to the space that each occupies. The<br />
transforms itself by leaving room for a party, a meeting, a yoga session, or<br />
natural wood rounds off the atmospheres providing<br />
taking over the space to sit and talk on the sofas, have dinner, play table<br />
warmth, elegance and order to the powerful avant-<br />
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garde dialogue that is established.<br />
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III DESIGN CONTEST<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
FIRST INTERIOR DESIGN CONFERENCE AND AWARD<br />
VALENCIA<br />
7TH MAY 2010<br />
ABOVE Part of the jury<br />
– also lecturers in the<br />
Conference – in the first<br />
row, listen attentively to the<br />
deliveries of their peers.<br />
RIGHT (clockwise)<br />
Fernando Salas during his<br />
lecture The most natural<br />
skin; Joan Lao delivering<br />
his Design as a solution to<br />
the creation of far-sighted<br />
projects, and Fran Silvestre<br />
explaining the development<br />
of a project.<br />
RIGHT Family photograph<br />
in the City of Arts and<br />
Sciences.<br />
The First <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Interior Design<br />
Conference, held in the City of Arts and Sciences<br />
in Valencia, was the occasion also chosen for the<br />
award presentation of the Third Edition of the<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Design Contest. This forum for<br />
debate was attended by around 400 people and<br />
served as a meeting point for professionals from<br />
the world of design and architecture of today<br />
and tomorrow in order to analyse the situation<br />
of the sector.<br />
Thus, Fernando Salas surprised the public with<br />
an analogy between natural stone and human<br />
skin, and Isabel López, Vice-president of the FAD<br />
[Foment de les Arts Decoratives] and renowned<br />
interior designer, underlined the importance of<br />
wood as an enveloping material that provides<br />
atmospheres with warmth.<br />
In turn, designer Joan Lao referred to the current situation of the market<br />
and urged the industry “to focus on design”. He also evoked the time of<br />
splendour that the sector once experienced – which, in his opinion, made the<br />
companies grow lazy and lose “creative muscle”. As a solution, he proposed<br />
the creation of design projects starting from well-defined concepts, and<br />
he stressed the need for making the concept of luxury evolve towards an<br />
approach more oriented to health, well-being and balance or harmony.<br />
Finally, young architect Francisco Silvestre in his lecture Five Houses,<br />
One Museum and One Chair made a tour through the different stages of<br />
a project taking his own creations as examples. /<br />
ABOVE The winners in<br />
the Student category<br />
accepting their award (they<br />
were distinguished for their<br />
project Nohgaku among the<br />
123 projects entered in the<br />
contest).<br />
RIGHT The winners in<br />
the Professional category<br />
were presented their award<br />
by Joan Lao (their project<br />
River won against the 186<br />
projects competing).<br />
LEFT The City of Arts<br />
and Sciences in Valencia<br />
was the place chosen to<br />
hold the First <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Interior Design Conference,<br />
attended by around 400<br />
people, where the awards<br />
to the winners of the Third<br />
Edition of the <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Design Contest were<br />
delivered, too. This time,<br />
the projects had to recreate<br />
the interior of a loft-style<br />
home featuring natural<br />
products from L’Antic<br />
Colonial, and, for the first<br />
year, from some of the<br />
Group’s other companies<br />
that manufacture kitchen<br />
and bathroom equipment,<br />
such as Noken, Gamadecor<br />
and Systempool.<br />
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Luca di Montezemolo embodies as few people do the fi gure of the man<br />
born for glory. His name comes from the old family title of the Marchese di Montezemolo, a prominent family to<br />
which Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, appointed cardinal in 2006, belongs too.<br />
A born leader, brilliant in his speech and diplomatic in his manners, this OPPOSITE PAGE<br />
man is the most emblematic figure in Ferrari and the FIAT Group, the largest Luca di Montezemolo’s<br />
Text and photos: JM RUBIO.<br />
Italian industrial corporation, even though he decided to leave its leadership<br />
a few months ago.<br />
Seeing this 62-year-old and Law graduate from Bologna heading several<br />
projects at once has been a regular thing. After a brief career in the car races<br />
figure in the foreground.<br />
ABOVE An image of<br />
Schumacher driving<br />
a Formula One Ferrari in<br />
France’s 1997 Grand Prix.<br />
driving a Lancia rally car, and since he started working for Ferrari in 1973, he RIGHT Enzo Anselmo<br />
FERRARI<br />
has occupied high responsibility posts for almost his entire life, and not just<br />
in the field of sports: Managing Director of the Scuderia in 1974, Director of<br />
all the industrial group’s competition activities a year later and of the brand<br />
Cinzano, and also of the advertising firm Itedi, of the first Italian racing yacht<br />
in competing for the America’s Cup (the Azurra), and even of the Committee<br />
that presided Italy’s 1990 Football World Cup – almost a Renaissance man,<br />
able to engage in many activities, and efficiently in all of them.<br />
A year after the death of the founder, Enzo Ferrari, he took over the<br />
Presidency, and subsequently, also that of Maserati’s. He managed to set<br />
Ferrari, founder of the<br />
Scuderia and automobile<br />
brand Ferrari.<br />
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the company of the Cavallino afloat again (in sales of street cars) – it had<br />
been in the red – and brought the racing team, that was in full decline in<br />
the grid, back to the path of victory, especially after he recruited young star<br />
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ABOVE Original poster<br />
of Great Britain’s 1950<br />
Grand Prix.<br />
RIGHT Different historical<br />
car models of the brand.<br />
BELOW Ferrari 125 from<br />
1950, in the Donington<br />
Motor Museum.<br />
ABOVE LEFT<br />
Restaurant Il Cavallino, in<br />
Maranello, Italy.<br />
ABOVE Fagioli, Fangio<br />
and Farina, three legendary<br />
racing drivers.<br />
LEFT Fangio on an Alfetta<br />
in 1950.<br />
Emilio Botín, President of<br />
Banco Santander and a<br />
great supporter of Fernando<br />
Alonso, at the 2010 Bahrein<br />
Grand Prix. Alonso proudly<br />
wears the colours of Ferrari<br />
and Banco Santander, thanks<br />
to which the dream of the<br />
Asturian has come true.<br />
Michael Schumacher in 1996, now running<br />
for Mercedes and whom “I still miss”, as he<br />
has recently admitted, after conquering five<br />
In 2004, Montezemolo combined the<br />
Chairmanship of Confindustria and Fiat<br />
Group, just as he simultaneously directed<br />
ABOVE Fernando Alonso<br />
poses with the colours of<br />
Ferrari and his new helmet.<br />
LEFT The recruitment of<br />
Fernando Alonso by Ferrari<br />
world titles. With the German, along with<br />
the World Championship association of F1<br />
was celebrated in a grand<br />
Ross Brawn in the technical area and Jean<br />
racing teams FOTA, fiercely fighting the<br />
way in the city of Valencia in<br />
Todt as Director of the racing team, Ferrari<br />
had its golden era at the beginning of the<br />
21st century.<br />
FIA and Max Mosley – today out of the<br />
Big Circus after a huge quarrel with the<br />
racing teams, of which the latter came out<br />
November last year. Next to<br />
him, Luca di Montezemolo<br />
and Felipe Massa, the other<br />
driver in the racing team.<br />
“I have a high opinion of him, because we<br />
triumphant. As a consequence, the former<br />
have won so much together, he has given<br />
director of the Scuderia, the French Jean<br />
so much to us, that sometimes I feel that I<br />
Todt, is today the FIA Chairman.<br />
need him,” recently confessed the new boss<br />
Montezemolo, now critical with Bernie<br />
of Fernando Alonso, the racing driver bound to bring Ferrari back towards Ecclestone’s way of ruling the Formula One, is one of the most authoritative<br />
be enough, and he’ll have to win in the F1, too.” The arrival of the Italian who at difficult times, while other racing teams have come and gone,” he says.<br />
a new glorious era. “I am really happy with Alonso, both in the racing circuit voices in the championship, and has strongly supported the classic circuits<br />
has been the champion of motorcycle racing several times is one of the old “I insist that a Formula One without Ferrari would not be Formula One, and<br />
and outside it, for his determination, his optimism and his concentration,” he and the powerful racing car teams to the detriment of the latest additions,<br />
aspirations of Luca di Montezemolo and, of course, a revolutionary move. “At this year, there are many racing teams that should be competing in the GP2<br />
has recently commented. For the time being, he is among the first drivers which he classifies as GP2, a reason why he thinks that each racing team<br />
the end of May we will celebrate Ferrari’s 800 grand prix in Formula One Series,” he maintains. Montezemolo does not set any limiting horizon to his<br />
in the championship in his first season dressed in red: “This season is not should have three cars. “I wish the FIA allowed the entry of a third car in<br />
and the 60 years that our brand has been present in the competition. We career. In his physical and mental prime, he is, along with Frank Williams<br />
going badly at all. Alonso has achieved some incredible races, arriving sixth the Grand Prix. We want a third car, and I’d do my best for having Valentino<br />
are the only ones boasting this record,” he proudly says. “That’s a reason for and Ecclestone himself, the most veteran and experienced figure in the<br />
28 even when his grid position was last. Red Bull cars are not unbeatable.” Rossi with us. When he wins the MotoGP championship this year, that will<br />
us to be proud and greatly satisfied, as it means that Ferrari is here, even paddock. Fernando Alonso could not have a better boss. /<br />
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A HOUSE IN MADRID<br />
Night and day<br />
This single-family house located in the Somosaguas urban<br />
development, Madrid, responds to the essential traits of the spatial<br />
concept of the architecture studio A-cero.<br />
ABOVE The lounge in the<br />
house is a cosy and elegant<br />
place in which the clearobscure<br />
contrasts prevail,<br />
with some coloured strokes<br />
on the walls. The sofas<br />
with Gancedo upholstery<br />
and the coffee tables in<br />
MDF have been madeto-measure<br />
by the studio<br />
itself.<br />
LEFT The sculptural<br />
contour of the construction<br />
rests next to the lakes.<br />
30 Text: SUKEINA AALI-TALEB Photos: A-CERO<br />
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The studio A-cero is<br />
also responsible for the<br />
landscaping project. They<br />
have chosen plants that<br />
harmonise with the groves<br />
and the typical landscape<br />
of the area, the north sierra<br />
in Madrid, for the garden.<br />
The stairs and handrail<br />
(designed by A-cero) are<br />
hidden behind the fireplace<br />
and lead to the common<br />
space of the house. The<br />
steps lead directly up<br />
to the main lounge. The<br />
semi-basement has a small<br />
lounge in clear tones. As<br />
for the exterior, the two<br />
upper floors turn into an<br />
exquisite work of art made<br />
in rough-textured concrete<br />
painted in grey. A large<br />
window runs along the<br />
facade of the house.<br />
The sculptural volumes and formal beauty are pervading and<br />
Contemporary art, like in the rest of the studio projects, is the source<br />
distinctive hallmarks of each and every architectural project carried out<br />
of inspiration, but to carry out this project, Joaquín Torres and his team<br />
by A-cero. Architect Joaquín Torres and his partner Rafael Llamazares<br />
adopted greater formal freedom, taking risks with a play of curve lines<br />
direct this studio headquartered in Madrid. Specifically, for this project<br />
perfectly integrated in the environs. The construction was also adapted<br />
located in the town of Pozuelo de Alarcón, they went for an audacious<br />
to the slope in the terrain – the horizontal volumes are overlaid in layers,<br />
kind of architecture designed to make life more comfortable for its<br />
as if they sprang from the ground.<br />
inhabitants, with attention paid to all details. Thus, its walls contain a<br />
The building stands on a plot of almost 5,000 square metres. Its<br />
heated swimming pool, a media room, a painting workshop and a gym,<br />
sculptural profile has big and protruding glass faces breaking the<br />
among other commodities, to which the gorgeous views of the lakes and<br />
uniformity of straight lines. With a concrete structure, the building<br />
landscape of Madrid’s north mountain range are added.<br />
has a total area of 1,750 square metres, and the residential space is<br />
A-cero employs in all its projects the same working method, and it<br />
structured in two upper floors, to which a semi-basement has been<br />
has also served for this singular building. They first start with an in-<br />
added. In this spacious open-plan house, the modern, minimalist and<br />
depth study of the client’s needs. They pose the problems and consider<br />
really current style of the interiors is the highlight. The ground floor<br />
the possibilities to solve them. The materials and details are decided<br />
has an ample hall, a bathroom, a kitchen, a lounge and a dining room<br />
just as they exert their ability to imagine and design. According to A-<br />
opening to the terrace, with a spectacular large window 15 metres<br />
cero’s directors, in this process, the architecture emerges by itself.<br />
long. There is also the main bedroom, fitted with a walk-in wardrobe,<br />
Thus, architecture shows off bluntly and imaginatively in this house in<br />
a bathroom and a lounge. And the space is completed with an office,<br />
32 Madrid, as it rather seems to be conceived as a big liveable sculpture.<br />
a gym and a heated swimming pool. This floor has also a garage with<br />
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The house has an exterior<br />
garden and a swimming<br />
pool. The curved shapes of<br />
the fireplace are supported<br />
on the stairs that lead down<br />
to the semi-basement.<br />
The main door marks the<br />
highest point on the plot<br />
and opens to an ample hall<br />
that distributes the rooms<br />
in the ground floor.<br />
The house also boasts a<br />
heated swimming pool<br />
with several deck chairs<br />
designed by the studio.<br />
JOAQUÍN TORRES, ARCHITECT<br />
In 1996, the architecture and townplanning<br />
studio A-cero started operating,<br />
and it has had a very fast evolution. The<br />
studio has grown at an amazing pace,<br />
and it has doubled its staff as the work<br />
volume increased in recent years. Its<br />
origin is in the town of A Coruña, but they<br />
soon enlarged their offices and opened<br />
their central headquarters in Madrid. The<br />
studio, headed by the tandem of architects<br />
Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares,<br />
has since its beginnings focused on an<br />
integral development of architectural<br />
projects: turnkey deliveries, all of them<br />
works previously designed by the architect<br />
team. Its architecture outstands, as it is<br />
very current, pondered over and neat, and<br />
special attention is paid to each and every<br />
detail. Nowadays, they maintain an office<br />
in A Coruña, have also facilities in Dubai<br />
and in the near future will open an office<br />
in the Dominican Republic. The key to the<br />
success of their many works, according<br />
to Joaquín Torres, lies in not losing the<br />
coherence of the idea all throughout the<br />
process. Outstanding among their projects<br />
are single-family houses, singular buildings,<br />
offices, as well as interior design and<br />
landscaping projects.<br />
capacity for eight cars, a storeroom and a junk room. As regards the<br />
distribution of the semi-basement, it opens onto the garden thanks<br />
to huge glaziers. It has four bedrooms, a guest lounge, the changingrooms<br />
of the exterior swimming pool, a media room and, finally, the<br />
rooms arranged for domestic help: bedrooms, office, drying-place,<br />
lounge, storerooms and facility rooms. The upper floor is reserved to<br />
the painting workshop, with lots of natural light.<br />
To attain an effect of continuity among the different spaces, the<br />
team of architects enhanced that feeling by paving the three floors<br />
with white big-format porcelain stoneware, highly resistant and durable.<br />
Concerning the walls, the architects chose the white colour for the<br />
semi-basement floor and a grey tone for the upper floors, matching<br />
with the facade of rough-textured concrete. Another important element<br />
in the conception of this house is water. From the entry door a series<br />
of flooded roofs visually connect with the exterior swimming pool and<br />
with the lake. The garden has also been designed by the landscaping<br />
department of A-cero. /<br />
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DE LUXE EXTERIORS<br />
GREEN<br />
HEART<br />
Exterior architecture and landscaping are gaining<br />
followers in the world of hotel design. PORCELANOSA<br />
GROUP is contributing with its products.<br />
Text: SUKEINA AALI-TALEB Photos: BENJAMÍN ALCÁZAR, DAVID MONFIL AND DR.<br />
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HOTEL BARCELÓ ASIA GARDENS & THAI SPA<br />
A bit of the East in the Mediterranean<br />
Asian reminiscences are present in the lavish<br />
vegetation and millenary bonsai trees<br />
of this architecture and landscaping project<br />
Located in an extraordinary spot among the<br />
surrounding mountains of Sierra Cortina in the<br />
Mediterranean coast, this hotel stands over a<br />
huge pine wood. Asian reminiscences are present<br />
in the architecture and in the landscaping project.<br />
The lavish vegetation has been chosen so that the<br />
guests have the feeling of being in the tropics.<br />
And the team of architects and landscapers have<br />
successfully achieved their objective, creating an<br />
idyllic Asian atmosphere. A total of 312 rooms<br />
surrounded by sumptuous gardens with more than<br />
300 different botanic species, with water as a<br />
central element.<br />
From the first moment, the team of professionals<br />
– architects Rodolfo Nonini and Cristian Larrain, and<br />
agricultural engineer and landscaper Miguel Ángel Vico – were intent in leaving clear, non-built up ABOVE Team of architects<br />
spaces. “This way, the swimming pools, gardens, fountains, springs, pergolas and paths are perfectly (from left to right):<br />
integrated and in tune with the architecture”, they claim. The building draws its inspiration from Asian Rodolfo Nonini,<br />
Cristian Larrain and<br />
design. The same can be said about the type of gardening and, of course, the presence of water,<br />
Miguel Angel Vico.<br />
a pervading element in the East. The studio approached the landscape design including tropical<br />
botanic species, with a range of exotic plants and millenary bonsai trees. The delicate balance<br />
between water and plants is visible in the swimming pools, of which there are seven, totalling an<br />
area of 3,500 m2. The goal was to achieve pleasant but also functional spaces. And the result<br />
is the creation of different atmospheres that make guests feel that they are walking through a<br />
unique place that has been conceived for the well-being of body and mind. The main materials<br />
used for this project are aged marble in a cream tone and wood in the most luxurious communal<br />
areas. For exteriors, marble has been combined with<br />
slate and black granite, and wood has also<br />
been used. The swimming pools<br />
are made in ceramic tiles in<br />
different formats, colours<br />
and finishes.<br />
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ABOVE Hydra, from Systempool, a mini-swimming pool that operates at 38ºC,<br />
with a water-jet and bubbles, expressly developed for public use.<br />
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HOTEL OCEAN CORAL & TURQUESA<br />
The Caribbean’s wild flora<br />
AVOBE Thermal deck chair<br />
Salus from Systempool affords<br />
the ideal temperature for<br />
relaxing. It reaches 36-37ºC<br />
(depending on the temperature<br />
outside), providing a pleasant<br />
feeling of warmth.<br />
OPPOSITE PAGE The Merbau<br />
Wengé model 18 x 65.9 cm,<br />
from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>, can be found<br />
all throughout the hotel.<br />
The Hotel Ocean Coral<br />
& Turquesa, belonging to<br />
the Catalonian hotel chain<br />
H10, is located right in<br />
front of the sea in Puerto<br />
Morelos, a fishing village in<br />
the Mayan Riviera, Mexico.<br />
It is outstanding for its<br />
extraordinary location,<br />
as an ample green area<br />
whose biodiversity has<br />
been respected to the<br />
maximum surrounds it,<br />
and the architecture has<br />
been fully integrated into<br />
the natural environment.<br />
Specifically, this project was conceived to preserve the indigenous<br />
flora, since it decisively contributes to the general beauty of this marvellous landscape. For this<br />
reason, most of the plants chosen for this landscaping project are Mexican: species that outstand<br />
for their high resistance and are genuine survivors, as they are able to withstand the weather<br />
conditions of the area, characterised for their extremeness and variability.<br />
The landscaping project consists of a union of its distinct spaces in a single concept: harmony,<br />
since it combines architecture and beach in such a way that the green spaces configure an area<br />
devoted to rest and relaxation, as well as to the enjoyment of the wide range of vegetation typical<br />
of the Caribbean. Mercedes de Rada, head of landscaping in this project, points out: “The jungle<br />
has been recreated in the large spaces, leaving the smaller ones for the kind of details that make<br />
for a very special landscape”.<br />
Concerning materials, those that respect the architectural style while also the natural<br />
environment have been chosen. Outstanding is the tropical wood, and specifically palm wood.<br />
Additional highlights are materials that masterly recreated stone, and also the flowerpot holders<br />
and urban furniture expressly designed for the hotel. Another quality of the hotel can be found in<br />
the views from its rooms, for they are arranged in front of an impressive white sand beach and<br />
look over the second largest coral reef barrier in the world. Just as indigenous vegetation has<br />
Architecture and beach have been united in such<br />
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been chosen for the landscaping project, the rooms have been decorated combining Mexican<br />
tradition with a modern interior design. Teak furniture, colourful patterns and a big wooden flower<br />
feature in every room in the hotel.<br />
a way that green spaces are devoted to rest and to the<br />
enjoyment of the Caribbean vegetation.<br />
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HOTEL EL CONVENT DE BEGUR<br />
Once a convent, now a retreat<br />
The idea was to preserve the original structure of the<br />
terraces, on which the founding friars would grow<br />
different kinds of produce for their own consumption.<br />
ABOVE Bench-deck chair, from Teklassic. ABOVE RIGHT In the hotel exterior and common areas, the model Manual Musgo Protegido,<br />
from L’Antic Colonial, has been used; in the rooms, Venice Ivory 31.6 x 59.2 cm, from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> and White Almeria Protegido and Beige Travertino Protegido,<br />
This hotel is located in the charming Begur,<br />
the heart of the region of Bajo Ampurdán, in<br />
Girona, between luxuriant mountains and the<br />
seacoast. More specifically, it stands on Sa<br />
Riera Creek, one of the privileged corners<br />
of the Costa Brava. In the streets of this<br />
Catalonian location we can find buildings<br />
that evoke a rich historical past – like the<br />
imposing medieval castle that dominates<br />
the village, or the building of this hotel,<br />
that originally housed among its walls the austere rooms of a<br />
convent. A wonderful place perfectly integrated into the natural<br />
environment, and in which peace and quiet preside. The building,<br />
located on an exceptional spot, is surrounded by a Mediterranean<br />
wood of holm-oaks and pines.<br />
The construction was built as a convent in the year 1730 by the<br />
Order of the Minim friars, and the restoration and adaptation works<br />
to convert it into a hotel with today’s commodities began in 2001<br />
and were completed in 2005. It has a total of 25 rooms plus the<br />
restaurant Refectori, which offers refined and imaginative dishes.<br />
The principal idea of the landscaping project, carried out by Joseph<br />
M. Serra, was to preserve the original structure of the terraces, in<br />
which the friars who founded the convent would grow different<br />
kinds of produce for their own consumption. The old orchids are<br />
now natural terraces in which guests can enjoy reading under the<br />
shade of the cypresses. The materials include the stone typical of<br />
the region that reinforces the terrace faces, and train sleepers that<br />
have been used to make trellises. The garden lighting contributes to<br />
create a quiet and nice atmosphere thanks to low-consumption light<br />
columns made out of oxidized iron. As regards vegetation, native<br />
species have been chosen: black pines, olive trees, cypresses, fruit<br />
trees and ivy. The reason for this choice is they easily integrate and<br />
perfectly adapt to the climate of this region. All the construction<br />
elements are in harmony with the landscaping project and with this<br />
the natural character of the whole, preserving the essential concept<br />
42 from L’Antic Colonial, in common toilets and in some rooms.<br />
of the monks who founded the convent. /<br />
43
ashion<br />
ATMOSPHERE<br />
This New York apartment brings us back to<br />
contemporary luxury and exploits the liveability<br />
of its different spaces to the highest degree.<br />
PORCELANOSA GROUP, with its products of high<br />
technical quality and perfect beauty, offers black<br />
and white as the absolute stars inside an<br />
atmosphere in which fashion and style prevail.<br />
Interior decoration photographs: RICARDO FERRER<br />
Fashion photographs: QUENTIN DE BRIEY Production: BLANCA J. DE LA HOZ<br />
CHESS QUEEN<br />
Long dress with train<br />
in black velvet with jet<br />
embroidery on one side,<br />
from Andrew GN.<br />
ELEMENT DUALITY<br />
The lounge of this beautiful<br />
apartment has been<br />
designed as a large space<br />
in which black and white<br />
contrast their tonalities<br />
in order to enhance and<br />
integrate elements. Just like<br />
in the floor, in which White<br />
Arabescato 59.6 x 59.6 cm<br />
has been combined<br />
with Grey Bardiglio<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm, from<br />
44 PORCELANOSA.<br />
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FOR RELAX<strong>ING</strong><br />
(Above) The bright reading<br />
area with a chaise longue is<br />
perfect to relax in and<br />
enjoy wonderful views of<br />
the city. The floor<br />
(close to the windows)<br />
has been made in White<br />
Windmill Marmara-Black<br />
Marquina-Java 40.9 x<br />
40.9 x 1 cm, from L’ANTIC<br />
COLONIAL.<br />
(Opposite page) To<br />
integrate the reading area<br />
into the lounge, the same<br />
floor has been used as next<br />
to the White Chimenea<br />
Manhattan, from L’Antic<br />
Colonial: namely, White<br />
Windmill Marmara-Black<br />
Marquina-Java 40.9 x<br />
40.9 x 1 cm, from L’ANTIC<br />
COLONIAL.<br />
White Arabescato<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm and Grey<br />
Bardiglio 59,6 x 59.6 cm,<br />
from PORCELANOSA.<br />
BETTER IN PAIRS<br />
She is sporting a grey<br />
knit jersey with a legend<br />
written in black, from Love<br />
Moschino, and straight<br />
trousers with black sequins,<br />
from Alvarno. The sandals<br />
with copper paillettes are<br />
from Miguel Palacio.<br />
He is wearing a brown silk<br />
shirt with a pattern of<br />
green and blue links; grey<br />
wool trousers; a black<br />
jacket and a brown leather<br />
belt, all from Hermès.<br />
The red Oxford-type<br />
shoes in laminated skin are<br />
46 In the rest of the lounge, from Hugo.<br />
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A CULT SPACE<br />
The kitchen, leading to the<br />
exterior terrace, has a large<br />
central aisle and another<br />
area devoted to storage and<br />
sink, which makes its layout<br />
more functional: green<br />
cedar/clay G445 model,<br />
from GAMADECOR.<br />
Models White Marmara<br />
Classic 15 x 30 x 1 cm<br />
and Blanco Marmara<br />
Classic 15 x 15 x 1 cm,<br />
from L’ANTIC COLONIAL,<br />
have been used to cover<br />
the walls.<br />
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DREAM TERRACE<br />
Having a terrace of this size<br />
in the centre of a big<br />
city is a privilege within<br />
the reach of just a few.<br />
Moreover, if you decorate it<br />
with terrace furniture from<br />
La Maison du Mond, like in<br />
this case, it is exploited to<br />
the best advantage.<br />
The wooden floor is made<br />
in the Ipe Iguazú model<br />
10 x 2.2 cm, from L’ANTIC<br />
COLONIAL. On the left,<br />
next to the plant stands,<br />
the technical floor<br />
model called Avenue Brown<br />
Texture 60 x 60 cm,<br />
from URBATEK, has<br />
been used.<br />
EXTREMELY<br />
STYLISH<br />
Grey sleeveless knitted<br />
T-shirt dress with a tartan<br />
side fringe, from McQ,<br />
Alexander McQueen;<br />
brown leather belt, from<br />
Love Moschino and<br />
Borsalino-style hat in camel<br />
shade, from Malìparmi.<br />
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A TASTE FOR ORDER<br />
The walk-in wardrobe<br />
Natura with front finish in a<br />
Subdued Walnut and Sand<br />
Tulle in its interior, from<br />
GAMADECOR, is perfect<br />
to be placed between two<br />
atmospheres and find your<br />
clothes instantly. The floor<br />
has been made in White<br />
Sheen Carrara 59.6 x<br />
59.6 cm and Black Sheen<br />
Marquina<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm,<br />
from PORCELANOSA.<br />
CLASSIC<br />
used. From the company<br />
MODERNITY<br />
NOKEN are the horizontal<br />
In bathroom atmospheres Dinasty mirrors<br />
again black and white tones 110 x 70 cm in white<br />
have been combined to sheen; Dinasty wall lamp<br />
provide minimalism and in white sheen; Dinasty<br />
beauty to spaces.<br />
basins, 110 cm, in white,<br />
(Above) Outstanding are with white Dinasty stand;<br />
the Lounge tap gear,<br />
Century tap gear (3-piece<br />
50-cm circular mirrors and basin set); Dinasty toilet<br />
Giro accessories, all from seat with medium-capacity<br />
NOKEN.<br />
tank; all accessories<br />
The Almond bathtub<br />
and the free-standing<br />
and basins (all made in magnifying mirror are<br />
KRION® Stone) and the<br />
Vitra Screen shower screen<br />
are from SYSTEMPOOL.<br />
The wall covered in Grey<br />
Nacaré 33.3 x 66.6 cm<br />
and in White Deco Nacaré<br />
33.3 x 66.6 cm, from<br />
VENIS, contrasts with the<br />
dark floor in Crystal Floor<br />
Dark 59.6 x 59.6 cm, also<br />
from VENIS.<br />
(Right) To cover the walls<br />
of this bathroom, a little bit<br />
more classical, the model<br />
Maui Pearl 20 x 31.6 cm,<br />
Century. The floor has also<br />
been made in the<br />
Dark Crystal Floor model,<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm, from<br />
VENIS.<br />
MASCULINE AND<br />
S<strong>ING</strong>ULAR<br />
Blazer-like jacket in black<br />
leather and matching<br />
trousers in black leather,<br />
both from Calvin Klein;<br />
grey knit jersey, from<br />
Tommy Hilfiger, and black<br />
Oxford-style shoes<br />
with brown-leather toe, from<br />
Salvatore Ferragamo.<br />
52 from VENIS, has been<br />
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AN OPEN VISION<br />
The furniture of the<br />
Traveler Collection, from<br />
Colección Alexandra, are<br />
harmoniously integrated<br />
with the floor Black<br />
Marquina 59.6 x 59.6 cm<br />
and White Sheen Carrara<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm, from<br />
PORCELANOSA;<br />
the bathtub Victorian Single,<br />
from SYSTEMPOOL,<br />
even though an atypical<br />
element for a bedroom, is<br />
equally integrated.<br />
Future tap gear, floor<br />
embedded from Noken.<br />
THE PERFECT<br />
NIGHT<br />
Black strapless dress with<br />
black and green feathers<br />
and tulle details, from<br />
Rafael López.<br />
FASHION CREDITS:<br />
Photography Assistant:<br />
Baptiste Vuerich.<br />
Make-up and hair: David<br />
Bello (Ana Prado) for<br />
Chanel and Kérastase.<br />
Models: Diana Ionele (Uno<br />
Models) and Adrian Barwell<br />
(Presumo).<br />
Production Assistant:<br />
Daniela Girod.<br />
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HOTEL GASTERIJ DE ROODE SCHUUR<br />
A curvy<br />
universe<br />
This singular hotel located in Nijkerk,<br />
a town in the interior of Holland,<br />
is a surprise for its curvy structure<br />
and its cosy interiors with a modern<br />
atmosphere thanks to the collaboration<br />
of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group.<br />
ABOVE<br />
Text: SUKEINA AALI-TALEB<br />
The hotel renovation has<br />
successfully combined<br />
the modernity of design<br />
pieces with the rural<br />
environs in which it stands.<br />
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Noticeable on the exterior<br />
of the hotel is the curved<br />
structure of its roofs<br />
The hotel Gasterij De Roode Schuur, literarily urgent improvement. Thus, the architecture and the hotel bar, whose<br />
translated as Red Barn, outstands for its peculiar studio Van Bokhorst went to work with the walls are covered in Mosaic<br />
structure of curved roofs, and once the main door objective of devising a construction in tune Iris Oxide 2.5 x 2.5 cm,<br />
is left behind, its interiors surprise us for their with this primarily rural region. This has been<br />
from L’Antic Colonial.<br />
contemporary and fresh decoration. Located successfully achieved, and the renovated hotel<br />
in a rural area in Holland between the National perfectly fits with its countryside environs and,<br />
Park De Veluwe and the cities of the western moreover, it has become a distinctive icon of the<br />
part of the country, the astonishing design of this area, largely due to its original roof of rounded<br />
building makes a very attractive identity hallmark forms made with cane.<br />
for the area.<br />
The concept has been developed by the<br />
In 2009 the hotel was renovated, since the interior designer Els Willemse, the owner of<br />
56 original construction, built in 1992, needed Something ELS, a company specialised in<br />
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CLOCKWISE<br />
ABOVE<br />
A detail of one of the<br />
The flooring used in<br />
colourful rooms; a detail<br />
this room, Tavola Mogano<br />
of one of the bathrooms,<br />
14.3 x 120 cm,<br />
with floor in Tavola Mogano<br />
from Venis, contrasts<br />
14.3 x 120 cm from<br />
with the colourful<br />
Venis; another bathroom<br />
decorative elements:<br />
atmosphere, whose<br />
the green carpet with a<br />
walls are covered in Mosaic<br />
flower pattern,<br />
Iris Dark 2.5 x 2.5 cm,<br />
from L’Antic Colonial, creating the brand image for hotels, restaurants,<br />
tangibly reflected in the use of the tones for been preserved, as is the case of the original<br />
the vibrant red headrest<br />
and the original wall<br />
and floor in Tavola Kenya bars and offices. For this project, Els Willemse<br />
the furniture chosen: green shades that evoke beams and the fireplace. Among the specialities painted in electric blue.<br />
14.3 x 120 cm, from Venis; took a global approach, having in mind the<br />
fresh grass, yellow for dandelions and lively red of the menu in the restaurant Meadows, regional<br />
a detail of wall and floor,<br />
covered in a fitted carpet<br />
imitating wood.<br />
location of the hotel, the rural surroundings<br />
and the local traditions and handcrafts, in<br />
order to incorporate it all into a contemporary<br />
for poppies. In harmony with this vivid environs,<br />
the bar space is covered in multi-coloured<br />
mosaic tiles from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, and<br />
and seasonal food outstands.<br />
The hotel has a total of 38 rooms and<br />
remarkable are the two particularly luxurious<br />
interior. Particularly interesting is the interior<br />
its lighting suggests the colours of the rainbow nuptial suites, with 50 square metres each. Els<br />
decoration chosen for the restaurant and bar<br />
that so often can be seen over the meadows Willemse has provided for different interiors, each<br />
Meadows, which has tables for group meals,<br />
after a rainy day. The traditional floor in wood of them with its own colour range. The highlights<br />
as well as corners reserved for more intimate<br />
has been made in Tavola Rovere tiles, 19.3 x are the bright carpets and the bathrooms tiles<br />
dinners. The name of the restaurant refers to<br />
120 cm, from Venis.<br />
from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, chosen for the<br />
58 the colourful meadows of the region, and is<br />
Some elements of the old construction have different interiors. /<br />
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ABU<br />
DHABI<br />
LUXURY AND DESIGN<br />
The capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi,<br />
comes as a surprise in the West for its buildings, the<br />
grandeur of their touches and the ease with which they<br />
imitate and surpass any known marvel.<br />
In less than a decade, the United Arab Emirates<br />
have managed to attract the attention of the rest<br />
of the world and position themselves as a top<br />
desired destination. In the case of the capital,<br />
Abu Dhabi, it is not a faraway place on the map<br />
anymore, but has become a centre devoted to<br />
leisure, travel, luxury and, generally, pleasure. But<br />
what is so special with this Emirate that it has<br />
even managed to bring to its arena a grand prix<br />
of the Formula One World Championship?<br />
First, and perhaps most importantly, it has 9<br />
and 5 per cent, respectively, of the whole planet’s<br />
oil and gas reserves. A wealth that, contrary to<br />
its neighbours, Abu Dhabi has been – and is –<br />
wise enough to efficiently manage: so efficiently<br />
that it has had to lend money to its friends in<br />
Dubai so that they would not go bankrupt. And<br />
this substantial stockpile is noticeable in all its<br />
buildings: from the avant-garde and modern ones<br />
to the most traditional, like the Grand Mosque,<br />
none of them spare any occasion to show off<br />
their luxury and eccentricity.<br />
In the case of the Grand Mosque, the biggest<br />
mosque open to non-Muslim visitors in the world,<br />
the marble has been imported from Italy, India<br />
and Greece, and some of its columns are made<br />
of the same kind of marble that was used for<br />
the Taj Mahal. With touches in gold, its interior is<br />
also remarkable, as it has the biggest one-piece<br />
carpet (weighting 38 tons) and the biggest<br />
lamp (decorated with Swarovski crystals) in the<br />
world, and its main entrance doors are made in<br />
Murano glass.<br />
ABOVE A camel market,<br />
near Al Ain.<br />
TOP A terrace in the hotel<br />
Yas, with state-of-the-art<br />
design and sited in the<br />
middle of the Yas Circuit<br />
Island (a part of the circuit<br />
layout even crosses it,<br />
buried underneath).<br />
LEFT The hotel Qasr Al<br />
distance of 200 km, is<br />
accessed by a road that<br />
goes through the desert,<br />
and has an area expressly<br />
built for the royal family.<br />
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the Grand Mosque from the<br />
Hotel Shangri-La.<br />
60 Photos: ALEX DEL RÍO<br />
Sarab, in Anantara, at a<br />
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ABOVE RIGHT The Grand<br />
Mosque, built in white<br />
marble and gold, is the third<br />
biggest in the world. Its<br />
columns were carved of the<br />
same kind of marble used<br />
for the Taj Mahal. Inside,<br />
it boasts the biggest onepiece<br />
carpet and the biggest<br />
lamp – made of Swarovski<br />
crystals – in the world.<br />
ABOVE Al Ain National<br />
Museum, in Abu Dhabi.<br />
Just as this temple exudes grandiosity and<br />
spirituality, a more recent construction such as<br />
the artificial Yas Island, in the outskirts of the city,<br />
is really striking. Everything revolves around auto<br />
racing here. On the one hand, the Yas Marina<br />
circuit, completed two years ago, holds since last<br />
year the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, planned this year<br />
for the middle of November. The layout includes<br />
the best details of all Formula One circuits in<br />
the world, but improved: for this is Abu Dhabi, a<br />
city based in everything known, but whose aim<br />
is never failing to surpass it all. Thus, the circuit<br />
is surrounded by a marina with moorings for<br />
yachts, in the Monaco style, and the imposing<br />
and modern Hotel Yas stands right in the centre.<br />
You can enjoy the rounds of the racing cars from<br />
the swimming pool on its roof.<br />
Also in this area, although still uncompleted, is<br />
the Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, a thematic park where<br />
you can find all things related<br />
to the Italian brand: passion,<br />
excellence, performance and<br />
technical innovation. To have<br />
a picture of what it will be like,<br />
you just have to look at its<br />
red roof, which extends over<br />
200,000 square metres and<br />
bears the biggest Ferrari logo<br />
ever created.<br />
Another hotel that attracts attention, although<br />
in this case rather for its location than for its<br />
structure, is the Qasr Al Sarab. An infinitely<br />
straight road that seems to lead nowhere<br />
leads to this luxury resort in Anantara at 200<br />
kilometres from the city. Once there, if you get<br />
bored of the private swimming pool of your villa,<br />
you will always have the possibility of riding<br />
through the dunes on a rented camel. But if you<br />
want a more exclusive experience – and have<br />
plenty of money – you can even rent the wing<br />
that was built for the royal family, several metres<br />
apart from the resort.<br />
The truth is that if you are looking for a<br />
luxury hotel, you are in the perfect place: in Abu<br />
Dhabi there are more than 20 five - or six -<br />
star hotels. And one of them is the emblematic<br />
Emirates Palace, which this year has come out<br />
with a surprising holiday package called “The<br />
one-million-dollar Saint<br />
Valentine’s dream”. Nothing<br />
to add.<br />
Abu Dhabi is synonymous<br />
with luxury and ostentation,<br />
but also with change and<br />
evolution. Right now, as I am<br />
writing these lines, the city<br />
is already different: it has<br />
already changed.<br />
CLOCKWISE A detail<br />
of a dagger in the Al Ain<br />
National Museum; an old<br />
photograph of the Emir<br />
of Abu Dhabi; one of<br />
the falcons in the Falcon<br />
Hospital – an essential<br />
facility in a city in which<br />
virtually every inhabitant<br />
possesses one of these<br />
impressive birds of prey;<br />
Hafeet, over 1,000 metres<br />
high and surrounded by the<br />
Mabzara Valley, an oasis<br />
fed from the warm springs<br />
from the mountainous<br />
range.<br />
62 and the mountain of Jebel<br />
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PORCELANOSA IN ABU DHABI<br />
Great projects<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group signs a joint venture in the Arab Emirates with Galaxy Building<br />
Material LLC, a company that is building a shop devoted exclusively to all the<br />
products of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group in the centre of Abu Dhabi.<br />
As part of this cooperation agreement, <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> is contributing with its products<br />
to the building projects of the Gate Towers and the Shining Towers.<br />
BELOW<br />
Thanks to the<br />
cooperation agreement<br />
between <strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
Group and Galaxy<br />
Building Material LLC,<br />
the Spanish company<br />
is contributing with its<br />
materials to the building<br />
of the impressive Gate<br />
Towers.<br />
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Infographic image of<br />
the Gate Towers from<br />
another angle.<br />
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And in these ever-changing environs – most<br />
of the buildings now comprising Abu Dhabi’s<br />
skyline have proliferated in barely ten years –<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group has wanted to be present.<br />
For that purpose, it has signed a joint venture<br />
with Galaxy Building Material LLC in the Arab<br />
Emirates, a Capital Investment’s and Sorouh Real<br />
Estate’s investee company that supplies a wide<br />
range of materials for the construction industry.<br />
In addition, in one of the busiest areas of the<br />
centre of Abu Dhabi, Galaxy is building a shop<br />
exclusively devoted to <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group<br />
products. As part of this cooperation agreement,<br />
the products from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> have been<br />
chosen for renowned projects such as those of<br />
the Gate Towers and the Shining Towers.<br />
The Gate Towers, which will provide the city<br />
with a new style of urban<br />
life in which modern comfort<br />
and natural lifestyle combine,<br />
will boast an imposing<br />
architecture design and with<br />
an unsurpassable location.<br />
Quality high end offices, luxurious apartments,<br />
and exclusive penthouses, they all will cater, in<br />
sum, for the most demanding needs. The project is<br />
divided into: Residential Tower, with 65 residential<br />
floors, including penthouses; Residential Arc,<br />
with 17 residential floors; Business Tower, with<br />
55 office floors, and different leasable areas.<br />
In turn, the Shining Towers have been<br />
conceived as a pair of dancers moving together<br />
without touching, as each of them appears to<br />
lean in two directions: sideways and towards<br />
one another. The shorter one, a concrete<br />
frame structure of 33 floors, holds apartments,<br />
and the taller one, 42 floors built with a steel<br />
frame, houses offices. Both buildings will be<br />
fully glazed. A three-floored podium and three<br />
basement levels – devoted to leisure facilities<br />
and car parking – link the<br />
two towers. Concrete cores<br />
and shear walls largely<br />
provide for stability. The<br />
building project is scheduled<br />
to be completed in 2012. /<br />
LEFT Infographic image<br />
portraying the future Gate<br />
Towers offices – they<br />
will occupy the Business<br />
Tower, with a total of 55<br />
floors.<br />
BELOW Infographic image<br />
of the area devoted to<br />
leisure and fashion in the<br />
Gate Towers.<br />
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Infographic image of the<br />
exterior of the Shining<br />
Towers.<br />
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BELOW A panoramic<br />
infographic exterior image<br />
of the imposing Gate<br />
Towers.<br />
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Alfonso Casares, who heads<br />
the architecture studio Aidhos,<br />
explains to LifeStyle the<br />
universe of the construction of<br />
hospitals and its evolution over<br />
time. He also reveals the projects<br />
on which he is working now.<br />
Text: MARTA SAHELICES<br />
ALFONSO CASARES<br />
An intelligible,<br />
human and<br />
reasonable<br />
architecture<br />
Alfonso Casares asserts that he would like to make in the future a ABOVE Architect<br />
revision of what hospitals imply and a serious analysis of the works carried Alfonso Casares.<br />
out so far in the hospital field, but meanwhile he does not stop working and<br />
TOP General lecture<br />
designing big hospitals, and fully renovating these spaces that prove “so<br />
complicated for their close relationship to life and health”. From his studio<br />
room in the University of<br />
Alicante.<br />
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Aidhos, devoted to hospital architecture and engineering design and made Hospital of Calahorra,<br />
up of a team of 25 professionals, he talks about the constant evolution and<br />
immediate future of these highly systematised and also highly organised<br />
structures. Just one piece of information: the cost of building a hospital<br />
equals that of its operation during a whole year.<br />
How would you define the style of architecture and engineering<br />
La Rioja.<br />
68 design of hospitals that you and your team practice?<br />
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RIGHT Interior of the<br />
Hospital Puerta de Hierro<br />
in Majadahonda.<br />
FAR RIGHT Hospital<br />
Reina Sofía, in Córdoba.<br />
BELOW Exterior view<br />
of the University Hospital<br />
of Granada.<br />
“He who reviews the history<br />
of the hospitals in the last 40<br />
or 50 years and thinks<br />
that they are consolidated<br />
into permanent models, is<br />
– in my opinion – wrong”<br />
“What we are really<br />
proud of is having devoted<br />
ourselves throughout<br />
the last 30 years to the<br />
hospital field almost<br />
exclusively”<br />
ABOVE Hospital<br />
of San Juan, in Alicante.<br />
LEFT Exterior view<br />
of the Hospital of<br />
Montecelo, in the Galician<br />
province of Pontevedra.<br />
Hospitals are highly complex buildings, for<br />
systematised structure – very complex, but also<br />
tasks. But the Directing Plan has evolved to<br />
And the most innovative...<br />
this type of architecture is complicated by its<br />
very well-organised. These big structures are<br />
be understood rather as the representation<br />
We’ve built a hospital in Almansa for the<br />
close connection with the health and lives of<br />
in an ongoing process of deep change and, of<br />
of life inside an organization with a very fast<br />
Sescam (Castilla-La Mancha Health Services)<br />
people. We have largely endeavoured to make<br />
course, the health system seems to be in really<br />
development over time (such as a hospital<br />
that I believe has the value of innovating the<br />
these buildings intelligible, human and reasonable. We believe that a good condition (hospitals are the most important buildings in the Spanish<br />
is). Precisely the Directing Plan is a sort of strategic plan for a hospital understanding of a small hospital, a local hospital. And La Fe might have<br />
hospital should have clarity, luminosity and a comfort that is not like the Communities, as they are a social indicator). The future pursues new<br />
infrastructure which, besides, linked to the maintenance of hospital buildings been the one that has most allowed us to take an in-depth approach for<br />
one needed in a home or an office, but a more general comfort, which is hospital models. I am certain that these models are not just in our minds, but<br />
– very complicated – and to the tremendous deterioration suffered by them more complex structures, since it is the most exacting hospital, the most<br />
more complex at once.<br />
actually, the very nature of hospitals and their operation demands a large<br />
in general and, more specifically, by the equipment they have inside, it is a demanding from the organization and quality viewpoints.<br />
Would you rather engage in a building project for a new hospital degree of organisation. Computers and communications have already taken<br />
very interesting method, a discipline, a work product, to put it somehow. In Do you have any projects for the future?<br />
or in a large renovation?<br />
an extraordinary step forward in the control of the organisation: they have<br />
sum: how planning should face the future of an already existing hospital. We’re working on a very interesting and special collaboration project: a<br />
Engaging in a large renovation never fails to be really interesting work, brought about a modification of the old models. Of course, he who reviews<br />
Each hospital has its strategic plan and should have its functional Directing private clinic for Bilbao’s health company IMQ that we are building by the<br />
as it implies getting to the heart of a big organisation with many people – the history of hospitals in the last 40 or 50 years and thinks that they have<br />
Plan almost from the moment when it starts operating.<br />
Estuary together with Carlos Ferrater and his studio. We are also excited<br />
people who worry a great deal about their work. However, a new hospital is consolidated in permanent models, I frankly think that he is wrong.<br />
What projects do you feel most proud of?<br />
about a series of works currently underway in Portugal: the renovation of a<br />
something that can be more easily understood. The nature of the problems What does the Directing Plan with which Aidhos works<br />
We feel really happy because we have devoted ourselves almost exclusively maternity hospital in Porto (a very amusing and interesting work), and now<br />
is different, and it is indeed more brilliant and easier to face. Obviously, as consist of?<br />
to the hospital field for the last 30 years. We indeed feel proud of that. But, we are about to start building a very small local hospital. And we maintain<br />
an architect, I’d rather build a new hospital.<br />
The concept of the Directing Plan has many possible interpretations. The<br />
more specifically, we are now immersed in three works in which we have an uncontained excitement over the renovations of Madrid’s important<br />
Is there actually such a thing as a ‘new hospital model’? easiest and most primary: the group of surveys and plans to carry out a<br />
invested lots of time and expectations: Valencia’s Hospital La Fe; Hospital buildings of Hospital Clínico San Carlos and La Paz, in which we’ve been<br />
70 Yes, there is. A hospital is a building with a highly schematised, highly large renovation or an integral renovation of a hospital – basically complex<br />
Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca and Granada’s University Hospital. working for a long time. /<br />
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Lounge floor: Bardiglio Grey<br />
59.6 x 59.6 cm. Par-Ker step.<br />
Kitchen floor: Casona Chestnut<br />
19.3 x 120 cm.<br />
Covering: Venice Mocha<br />
20 x 31.6 cm and Marmi Ivory<br />
31.6 x 90 cm.<br />
Kitchen model: G445 Green<br />
Cedar / Clay.<br />
72<br />
8THE<br />
GREAT<br />
The eight brands that make up PORCELANOSA GROUP<br />
present their novelties in the 17th International Ceramics,<br />
Kitchen & Bathroom Show.<br />
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MORE THAN JUST A COVER<strong>ING</strong><br />
The company <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> is focused on new coverings<br />
that turn walls into genuine works of art, with texture, volume<br />
and design.<br />
1PORCELANOSA<br />
The most up-to-date walls are covered in porcelain tiles whose finishes and textures improve<br />
the quality of atmospheres and afford a sophistication of their own in an example of the most<br />
contemporary interior design. Such is the case of the new LONDON model from <strong>Porcelanosa</strong>,<br />
which with its pattern of coiled waves creates a feeling of beauty and motion.<br />
London Mother-of-Pearl confers<br />
volume, design and texture to walls<br />
LONDON MOTHER-OF-PEARL<br />
Grounded covering in 31.6 x 9.0 cm format; finish, sheen.<br />
The models included in the London series are Mother-of-<br />
Pearl, Sand and Anthracite.<br />
THE SOFT LIGHT<br />
The new Maui collection is<br />
in fact made up of mediumsize<br />
ceramic pieces that<br />
are easy to install and<br />
which, once in place, have<br />
the appearance of small<br />
ceramic tessellas.<br />
Format: 20 x 31.6 cm.<br />
Product type: Mono-porous<br />
covering.<br />
(Above) Metallic Maui.<br />
(Right) Pearl Maui.<br />
(Far right) A detail of the<br />
Maui Red model.<br />
2Maui: small ceramic tessellas<br />
that play with light<br />
The new ceramic range MAUI appears as a micro-mosaic of irregular hand-made forms whose<br />
gloss and range of tones generate a play of small reflections on the walls. There are several colours<br />
to choose from: Pearl, Coffee, Red, Ocean, Dark and Metallic, all of them with high chromatic value<br />
and a very distinctive appearance.<br />
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KENYA PULPIS<br />
(Right) Ston-Ker floor. Measurements: 43.5 x 65.9 cm.<br />
Grounded, matt, untoned. The Kenya series models are<br />
Graphite, Pulpis, Silver and Sand.<br />
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VENIS
3 4<br />
GAMADECOR SYSTEMPOOL<br />
Contemporary and functional walkin<br />
wardrobes and modular series<br />
GAMADECOR presents several novel elements, such as its functional walk-in wardrobes and<br />
modular bathroom series, with so many finishes from which to choose – from the type of wood<br />
to the basin design – that you can create yours à la carte. In addition, they come with different<br />
complements, such as shelves, towel racks, lighted mirrors and magnifying mirrors.<br />
NATURA WALK-IN WARDROBE<br />
Folding opening, front finish in Subdued Walnut and interior<br />
finish in Sand Tulle.<br />
CALA BATHROOM SERIES:<br />
SIENA WALNUT<br />
A modular series that combines different elements, including<br />
wood, steel, granite and Krion. Its materials present a choice<br />
of finishes – Ukola, Siena Walnut, Brown Walnut<br />
and Subdued Walnut in wood – whereas those lacquered<br />
have a wide range of colours, both sheen and matt. The<br />
basin can be made fully in Krion or with a Krion structure<br />
covered in granite with different finishes.<br />
TECHNICAL DATA<br />
The bathtub Almond<br />
measures 180 x 90 cm<br />
and is 60 cm high, and<br />
incorporates a built-in<br />
overflow device. Compliant<br />
with EU standards, it also<br />
conforms to the American<br />
norms (UPC).<br />
The softest and most rounded<br />
formal purity from Systempool<br />
Manufactured in Krion® Stone, the free-standing bathtub ALMOND, of soft and rounded forms,<br />
from the company Systempool, outstands for its formal purity. An element that adds serenity and<br />
cleanliness to bathroom atmospheres. In addition, the ALMOND bathtub model complies with both<br />
the EU and the American standards (UPC).<br />
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L´ANTIC COLONIAL BUTECH<br />
5Victorian Collection bets on<br />
distinction and good taste<br />
VICTORIAN COLLECTION is a range of select products remarkable for their high quality and<br />
their classical appearance – they can transform a lounge wall into a genuine work of art. Natural<br />
stone and carved crystal mosaics, unique pieces to cover the best lounges with the most exclusive<br />
material and the excellent quality of L’Antic Colonial.<br />
IN GREAT DETAIL<br />
(Above) Curve White<br />
Marmara – Black Marquina<br />
is a mesh backed mosaic<br />
made up of small pieces<br />
cut in curved forms that<br />
are inserted and fit to<br />
perfection. A composition<br />
alternating black and white<br />
materials, presented in<br />
meshes of 40 x 40 x 1 cm.<br />
ATMOSPHERE<br />
(Left) The Diamond mosaic<br />
combines White Marmara<br />
Marble with small inlayed<br />
rounded crystal pieces. An<br />
elegant composition made<br />
with small triangles that<br />
create geometrical patterns<br />
and is presented on a mesh<br />
of 32.9 x 28.3 x 1 cm.<br />
ENERGY<br />
SAV<strong>ING</strong>S<br />
The energy savings is<br />
higher than in conventional<br />
heating systems: 75% as<br />
against electric heating,<br />
and 60% compared<br />
to natural gas systems.<br />
6Geothermics, an inexhaustible<br />
and ecological source of energy<br />
The company BUTECH is committed to a new system of geothermic energy exploitation:<br />
GEOTHERMICS, a constructive solution that respects the natural environment while being profitable<br />
and efficient. As this system has no combustion, it does not emit gases or odours, and does not deplete<br />
the ozone layer. Low-maintenance, this is the only system that generates heat, cold and SHW.<br />
AESTHETICS<br />
All the reception elements<br />
(probes) are buried, and<br />
the machinery is installed<br />
inside the house –<br />
therefore, there is no visual<br />
impact; no auxiliary<br />
support system is needed,<br />
since it operates day<br />
and night in any weather<br />
condition, all the year<br />
round: it conforms to the<br />
CTE HE4 [EU ordinance<br />
for the use of renewable<br />
sources of energy], which<br />
means that there is<br />
no need to install solar<br />
thermal panels. As it is<br />
considered renewable<br />
energy, this product has<br />
subsidised prices.<br />
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NOKEN CERANCO<br />
7The elegance of Lounge Diamonds<br />
enters the bathroom space<br />
A new model has arrived to the LOUNGE collection: a suspended piece of furniture 120<br />
centimetres wide, with a frontal drawer and a finish in textured black that provides a touch of<br />
elegance to any space. LOUNGE DIAMONDS thus completes this series created by designer<br />
Simone Micheli for the Spanish firm.<br />
ECOLOGIC<br />
DESIGN<br />
The Lounge series<br />
possesses a standard<br />
water saving device that<br />
provides a maximum of<br />
eight litres per minute<br />
– that is to say, it reduces<br />
the water flow by 35 %.<br />
TECHNICAL<br />
DATA<br />
A suspended module<br />
120 cm wide, 33 cm high<br />
and 45 cm deep. Textured<br />
front and drawer with<br />
soft-close mechanism.<br />
8Neo, the new generation of<br />
technical porcelain tiles<br />
What is the sense of manufacturing ceramic to endure for life if it is not beautiful? That is the<br />
question that they have asked themselves in the company CERANCO, and they have answered with<br />
NEO, the new technical porcelain tile model that boasts of resistance and, at once, finishes: polished<br />
or half-polished, natural or textured. A pure and multi-purpose product with a surprising beauty.<br />
A NEW<br />
ATMOSPHERE<br />
(Left) Models: Neo Coal<br />
Polished 60 x 60 and Neo<br />
Coal Texture 60 x 60.<br />
A TOUCH OF<br />
COLOUR<br />
(Below, from left to right)<br />
A detail of three technical<br />
porcelain tile models:<br />
Neo White Texture, Neo<br />
Coal Texture and<br />
Neo Black Texture.<br />
Neo is the first Urbatek<br />
collection offering polished,<br />
matt and textured finishes<br />
in the same range.<br />
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82<br />
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM A general view<br />
of the Gamadecor booth, at Milan International Kitchen<br />
Furniture Exhibition: Eurocucina 2010: G680 Ukola /<br />
G975 Krion models, in dark tones and worktop<br />
in white, and G475 Matt Gypsum / Dark Grey Oak<br />
models. RIGHT, G580 Shine White /<br />
G680 Subdued Walnut models.<br />
EUROCUCINA 2010 / MILAN<br />
A success for<br />
<strong>Porcelanosa</strong><br />
The brand of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group<br />
specialised in kitchens, Gamadecor,<br />
wins in the reputed Milan International Kitchen Furniture Exhibition:<br />
Eurocucina 2010. A biennial rendezvous that received for the first time<br />
the Spanish group as an exhibitor, and that was attended by around<br />
330,000 visitors – 7% more than in the former edition – who had<br />
the privilege to see for themselves the novelties of the 144 exhibitor<br />
and distributor companies. In turn, Gamadecor presented its latest<br />
designs for this home space with innovative materials and surprising<br />
designs, like kitchens with fronts and work tops in Krion, a resistant<br />
material particularly suitable for the most demanding kitchens and<br />
with antibacterial properties (certified as conforming to the UNE-EN<br />
ISO 1186 standard) which guarantees its use in food handling, and,<br />
therefore, its application in work tops and any other element that may<br />
come into direct contact with food. /
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NEW SPA<br />
Urban health<br />
resort in Madrid<br />
Los Nogales Spa & Wellness Puerta de<br />
Hierro is a new urban health resort located in the northeast of<br />
Madrid that has an ample thermal area with all the elements needed<br />
for interacting with water: from bathtubs to warm beach entry pools,<br />
and also relaxation swimming pools at contrasting temperatures. It is<br />
actually divided into a leisure area (with swimming pools, saunas, Turkish<br />
bath and relaxation room), a treatment area (with 30 cabins in which<br />
to enjoy both body wraps and jet showers), and a sports area to do<br />
exercise. Located near Puerta de Hierro (Isla Malaíta, 10), the highlights<br />
are its beauty protocols for brides and its instant tanning treatment. Also<br />
its body treatments like mesotherapy, anti-stress, detoxifying and the<br />
specific treatment for tired legs. /<br />
Thermal area: The swimming pool<br />
is made in Fashion Mix B Blues<br />
2 x 2 cm (32.7 x 32.7 cm) and the<br />
column in Mosaic Crystal<br />
Cherry 20 x 33.3 cm, both from<br />
L’Antic Colonial.<br />
ABOVE The stairs and footbridge<br />
are covered in Jatoba Wengé<br />
Exteriors 14.4 x 120 x 1.2 cm.<br />
LEFT On the column, White<br />
Plaited Marmara 30 x 30 x 1 cm;<br />
on the floor, Travertine Moka Prot<br />
30 x 60 x 1.2 cm;<br />
and in the thermal deck chair,<br />
Mosaic Air White 30 x 30 x 1 cm.<br />
LEFT, ABOVE Covering in<br />
Travertine Mosaic Polished Perseo<br />
3 x 5 x 1 cm and floor in Travertine<br />
Moka Prot 30 x 60 x 1.2 cm.<br />
LEFT, BELOW Covering in Deco<br />
Saigon Grey 31.6 x 90 cm. All<br />
products are from L’Antic Colonial.
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NOVELTIES<br />
Urbatek, the<br />
brand to be followed<br />
It has already been six years since Urbatek, the line<br />
of technical porcelain tile, was added to the vast choices<br />
of <strong>Porcelanosa</strong> Group, a period in which the company has proved to be the favourite<br />
for architecture and interior design professionals. This is due not just to the resilience and<br />
technical standards of its materials, but also to the wide range of finishes and the beauty of<br />
its designs: in Urbatek the durability of the product is as important as its aesthetics.<br />
For another year, Urbatek comes brimming with novelties, from the Mosaic Avenue model,<br />
perfect to cover bathroom spaces, to the State White Polished flooring that gives shine to<br />
any room. We should not forget the model Tribeca White, simply perfect. /<br />
ABOVE Brick Avenue Black<br />
model, 30 x 30 cm.<br />
The Avenue collection is<br />
prepared to resist the most<br />
demanding conditions in<br />
any home; suitable<br />
for wet areas, it is designed<br />
to remain always like<br />
the first day and available in<br />
a wide range of colours.<br />
LEFT Tribeca White<br />
Polished<br />
40 x 80 cm, 80 x 80 cm<br />
and 20 x 80 cm. A clear<br />
example of Urbatek’s<br />
proposals for the home:<br />
the most accomplished<br />
shine finishes in the market,<br />
a mirror-like finish for the<br />
entire house.<br />
TOP LEFT State White<br />
Polished 60 x 60 cm. The<br />
State collection, similar<br />
to natural marble stone,<br />
has the advantages of the<br />
ceramic material: its water<br />
absorption is insignificant<br />
and, therefore, it is much<br />
more resistant to stains<br />
than any other natural stone.<br />
Made without enamels,<br />
only natural pigments are<br />
used to colour it.
PORCELANOSA IN THE WORLD<br />
■ A CORUÑA<br />
EL EJIDO Ctra. N-340, Km. 411. ■ BURGOS<br />
■ CANTABRIA<br />
■ CUENCA<br />
■ HUELVA<br />
MATERIALS PIRINEU<br />
PAMPLONA Navas de Tolosa, s/n.<br />
MACEDONIA Skopje<br />
SUMINISTROS VIA-MAR, S.L. Tel. 950 483 285<br />
CERÁMICA DE LAS<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
MAT. CONST. MARTÍNEZ<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
LA SEU D’URGEL Ctra. de Lleida, 28. Tel. 948 224 000<br />
MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur<br />
A CORUÑA Avda. Finisterre, 11b. Fax 950 486 500<br />
MERINDADES<br />
SANTANDER Avda. Parayas, s/n. ORTEGA<br />
HUELVA Ctra. Tráfico Pesado, s/n.<br />
Tel. 973 351 850<br />
Fax 948 226 424<br />
MALTA Birkirkara<br />
Tel. 981 279 431<br />
VICAR Centro Comercial Viapark, MEDINA DE POMAR Avda. Bilbao, 11. Tel. 942 352 510<br />
CASAS DE HARO Dos de Mayo, 28. Pol. La Paz.<br />
Fax 973 353 410<br />
TUDELA Ctra. Tudela-Tarazona.<br />
MARTINIQUE<br />
BETANZOS Avda. Fraga Iribarne, 56. Parc 1.<br />
Tel. 947 192 081<br />
Fax 942 352 638<br />
Tel./Fax 969 380 708<br />
Tel. 959 543 600<br />
EXCLUSIVAS DE HORMIGÓN Pol. Ctro. de Servicios de Tudela.<br />
(FRENCH ANTILLES)<br />
Tel. 981 772 190<br />
Tel. 950 325 575<br />
Fax 947 192 082<br />
TORRELAVEGA Boulevard Demetrio PORCELANOSA<br />
Fax 959 234 652<br />
PREFABRICADO<br />
Tel. 948 848 365<br />
Le Lamentin<br />
NEIRA & ORTEGAL, S.L.<br />
Fax 950 338 651<br />
BIGMAT FONTECHA<br />
Herrero, 1.<br />
CUENCA Hermanos Becerril,<br />
LLEIDA Ctra. Tarragona, Km. 40. Fax 948 848 573<br />
MEXICO Interlomas/<br />
FERROL Ctra. Catabois, 258.<br />
BURGOS Alcalde Martín Cobos, 15. Tel. 942 835 026<br />
6 bajo.<br />
■ HUESCA<br />
Tel. 973 202 350<br />
CERÁMICAS CECILIO CHIVITE<br />
Tlalnepantla<br />
Tel. 981 326 532<br />
■ ASTURIAS<br />
Naves 5 y 6.<br />
Fax 942 881 787<br />
Tel. 969 233 200<br />
BERGES CENTRO COMERCIAL<br />
Fax 973 203 113<br />
CIENTRUÉNIGO Pol. Ind. s/n.<br />
MOLDAVIA Chisinau<br />
Fax 981 324 951<br />
GARCÍA MILLÁN<br />
Tel. 947 483 902<br />
Fax 969 234 475<br />
FRAGA Avda. Aragón, 70<br />
RAMÓN MEDA<br />
Variante N-113.<br />
MONTENEGRO Bar<br />
ORTIGUEIRA Cuiña. Ctra. C-642, s/n. AVILÉS Gutiérrez Herrero, 11.<br />
Fax 947 483 941<br />
■ CASTELLÓN<br />
VICENTE DE LOS RIOS S.A. Tel./Fax 974 471 439<br />
TÀRREGA Avda. Tarragona s/n.<br />
Tel. 948 811 973<br />
MOROCCO Casablanca/<br />
Tel. 981 400 880<br />
Tel. 985 549 744<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
TARANCÓN Ctra. Madrid-<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
Tel. 973 312 900<br />
Fax 948 815 249<br />
Marrakech/ Rabat/ Tangier<br />
Fax 981 400 883<br />
Fax 985 544 543<br />
■ CÁCERES<br />
CASTELLÓN DE LA PLANA Asensi, 9. Valencia, 81.<br />
HUESCA Pol. Sepes. Ronda la<br />
Fax 973 310 220<br />
NEPAL Kathmandu<br />
JOSÉ OTERO<br />
OVIEDO Cerdeño, s/n.<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
Tel. 964 239 <strong>16</strong>2<br />
Tel. 969 321 323<br />
Industria 1-3. Nave C.<br />
COMERCIAL RIBERA<br />
■ OURENSE<br />
NETHERLANDS Venlo<br />
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA General Tel. 985 113 696<br />
CÁCERES Avda. Juan Pablo II, 130. Fax 964 238 930<br />
Fax 969 321 334<br />
Tel. 974 242 738<br />
VIELHA Ctra. França, 40 (Mig Aran). GREMASA MNL ABAD<br />
NEW ZEALAND Auckland<br />
Pardiñas, 13-bajo.<br />
Fax 985 110 279<br />
Tel. 927 236 337<br />
VILLARREAL Ctra. Villarreal-Onda, ALMACENES PAÑOS S.L.<br />
Fax 974 242 676<br />
Tel. 973 641 460<br />
SABUCEDO S.L.<br />
NICARAGUA Managua<br />
Tel. 981 569 230<br />
Fax 927 236 205<br />
Km. 3.<br />
VILLANUEVA DE LA JARA<br />
Fax 973 642 271<br />
OURENSE Nosa Señora da<br />
OMAN<br />
Alto del Montouto. Carretera de la ■ ÁVILA<br />
BIGMAT CAYUELA<br />
Tel. 964 506 800<br />
Camino de Rubielos, 8.<br />
■ ISLAS BALEARES<br />
Sainza, 48.<br />
PAKISTAN Karachi<br />
Estrada, Km. 3.<br />
PAVIMARSA<br />
MORALEJA Avda. Extremadura, 26. Fax 964 525 418<br />
Tel./Fax 969 498 000<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
■ LUGO<br />
Tel. 988 391 114<br />
PANAMA Panama City<br />
Tel. 981 509 270<br />
ÁVILA Pol. Ind. Vicolozano, parcela 2. Tel. 927 515 198<br />
VINAROZ Ctra. N-340, Km. 1.050,1.<br />
Gran Vía Asima, 21. Pol. Son Castelló.<br />
ALMACENES BAHÍA S.L.<br />
Fax 988 250 413<br />
PERU Lima<br />
Fax 981 819 334<br />
Tel. 920 259 820<br />
Fax 927 147 266<br />
Tel. 964 400 944<br />
■ GIRONA<br />
Tel. 971 430 667<br />
FOZ Maestro Lugilde, 6.<br />
PHILIPPINES Makati/ Manila<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
Fax 920 259 821<br />
ALICATADORES ROMU, S.A. Fax 964 400 650<br />
OLIVERAS<br />
Fax 971 297 094<br />
Tel. 982 140 957<br />
■ PALENCIA<br />
POLAND Bialystok/ Bielsko-<br />
Pol. Comercial Costa Vella, s/n.<br />
PLASENCIA Avda. del Valle, 59.<br />
ANGLÁS Verneda, 5.<br />
INCA (MALLORCA) Pagesos s/n.<br />
ARIAS NADELA<br />
CANTALAPIEDRA<br />
Biala/ Czestochowa/ Gliwice/ Gorzów/<br />
88<br />
Tel. 981 530 901<br />
■ ÁLAVA<br />
JORGE FERNÁNDEZ ARABA<br />
VITORIA-GASTEIZ Los Herrán, 30.<br />
Tel. 945 254 755<br />
Fax 945 259 668<br />
Paduleta, 53. Polígono Jundiz.<br />
Tel. 945 244 250<br />
Fax 945 247 877<br />
■ ALBACETE<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
Pol. Campollano, calle B, nº3.<br />
Tel. 967 243 658<br />
Fax 967 193 465<br />
OLIVARES MATERIALES DE<br />
CONSTRUCCIÓN<br />
VILLAROBLEDO Avda. Reyes<br />
Católicos, <strong>16</strong>8.<br />
Tel. 967 138 105<br />
Fax 967 138 023<br />
■ ALICANTE<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
ALICANTE Calle del Franco.<br />
Pol. Las Atalayas, parcela VI.<br />
Tel. 965 109 561<br />
Fax 965 106 965<br />
ALCOY Ctra. de Valencia,<br />
Esq/Tirant lo Blanc, 27.<br />
Tel. 965 333 758<br />
Fax 965 333 767<br />
ELCHE Ctra. Alicante, 2.<br />
Tel. 966 610 676<br />
Fax 966 610 700<br />
SAN JUAN Ctra. Valencia, Km. 88.<br />
Tel. 965 656 200<br />
Fax 965 655 644<br />
TORREVIEJA Avda. Cortes Valencianas,<br />
58. Esquina Crucero Baleares.<br />
Tel. 966 708 445<br />
Fax 965 718 722<br />
MATERIALS CONSTRUCCIÓ ROCA<br />
ALTEA Bon Repós, s/n.<br />
Edif. Glorieta I.<br />
Tel. 965 841 507<br />
HIJOS DE JUAN RIBES<br />
BENISSA Avda. de la Estación, 2.<br />
Tel. 965 730 419<br />
CALPE Avda. Ejércitos Españoles,<br />
Edificio Apolo VII, Local 10.<br />
Tel./Fax 965 839 105<br />
LLACER INSTALACIONES Y<br />
SERVICIOS<br />
DENIA Pedreguer, 10-12<br />
Tel. 965 781 635<br />
Fax 965 789 821<br />
AZULEJOS JAVEA<br />
JAVEA Liverpool, 4.<br />
Tel. 965 791 036<br />
ELDECO FLORENCIO CABALLERO<br />
LA NUNCIA Ctra. Benidorm-<br />
La Nuncia, Km. 9 (Complejo Trópico).<br />
Tel. 966 874 360<br />
■ ALMERÍA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
ALMERÍA Avda. Mediterráneo, 2º tramo.<br />
Tel. 950 143 567<br />
Fax 950 142 067<br />
■ BADAJOZ<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
MÉRIDA Avda. Reina Sofía, 8.<br />
Tel. 924 330 218<br />
Fax 924 330 315<br />
GALLERY CERAMIC<br />
BADAJOZ N-V Madrid-Lisboa,<br />
Km. 399.<br />
Tel. 924 229 144<br />
Fax 924 229 143<br />
■ BARCELONA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
L’HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGAT<br />
Ciències, 65. Gran Vía l’Hospitalet.<br />
Tel. 932 642 500<br />
Fax 932 007 036<br />
COMERCIAL MAESTRO CANET<br />
CANOVELLES Pol. Can Castells,<br />
nau 7-8.<br />
Tel. 938 466 568<br />
Fax 938 409 2<strong>16</strong><br />
PRAT MATERIALS I MAQUINARIA<br />
MANRESA Mossen Jacint<br />
Verdaguer, 26.<br />
Tel./Fax 938 741 903<br />
NAVAS De Mujar, 52.<br />
Tel. 938 204 033<br />
Fax 938 204 098<br />
AMARGANT<br />
PINEDA DE MAR Santiago Rusiñol, 96.<br />
Tel. 937 671 4<strong>16</strong><br />
Fax 937 670 894<br />
SANT POL Passeig Parc, 1.<br />
Tel. 937 600 112<br />
Fax 937 600 411<br />
CASANOVA<br />
SABADELL Avda. Rafael<br />
Casanova, 24.<br />
Tel. 937 481 015<br />
Fax 937 274 834<br />
ST. FRUITOS DE BAGÉS Ctra. De<br />
Manresa a Berga, Km. 1. Naus 2-7.<br />
Tel. 938 770 625<br />
Fax 938 776 530<br />
TERRASA Avda Can Jofresa, nau 4-5.<br />
Cant Ptge. Marie Curie.<br />
Tel. 902 934 094<br />
Fax 902 934 099<br />
GARRO<br />
ST. BOI DE LLOBREGAT Ctra. Sta.<br />
Creu de Calafell, km. 10,7.<br />
Tel. 936 545 952<br />
Fax 938 400 620<br />
SUMCO<br />
ST. PERE DE RIBES Ctra. De<br />
Barcelona C-246, Km 42,4.<br />
Tel. 938 933 0<strong>16</strong><br />
Fax 938 741 066<br />
VILLAFRANCA Pol. Ind. Domenys II.<br />
Avda. Tarragona 136.<br />
Tel. 938 933 066<br />
Fax 938 936 004<br />
JODUL<br />
TARRADELL Ctra. de Vic, Km 5,8.<br />
Tel. 938 800 800<br />
Fax 938 126 054<br />
JOAN DOT<br />
TORELLÓ Ter, 50.<br />
Tel. 938 504 646<br />
Fax 938 504 286<br />
Tel. 927 426 493<br />
Fax 927 426 495<br />
■ CÁDIZ<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA<br />
Pol. El Palmar. Carretera Madrid-Cádiz,<br />
Km. 653,2.<br />
Tel. 956 540 083<br />
Fax 956 540 083<br />
ALGECIRAS Ctra. de Málaga, Km. 109.<br />
Tel. 956 635 282<br />
Fax 956 635 285<br />
CÁDIZ Avda. José León de Carranza,<br />
esq. Plaza Jeréz.<br />
Tel. 956 205 622<br />
Fax 956 266 362<br />
JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA Carretera<br />
N-IV. Parque Empresarial, parcela D1.<br />
Tel. 956 187 <strong>16</strong>0<br />
Fax 956 302 904<br />
SAN FERNANDO Polígono Tres<br />
Caminos, s/n.<br />
Tel. 956 592 36<br />
Fax 956 592 833<br />
GRAVIGRES S.L.<br />
CHICLANA Pol. Ind. Urbisur.<br />
Severo Ochoa, 57.<br />
Tel. 956 400 108<br />
Fax 956 400 650<br />
ALMECOR<br />
OLVERA Llana, 47.<br />
Tel./Fax 956 120 776<br />
DOCURRI<br />
UBRIQUE Fernando Quiñones, 1.<br />
Tel. 956 461 838<br />
Fax 956 460 384<br />
AZULGRIF<br />
VILLAMARTIN Rosario, 9.<br />
Tel. 956 730 687<br />
Fax 956 730 911<br />
■ CEUTA<br />
BAEZA<br />
CEUTA Ampliación muelle de<br />
Poniente, 96.<br />
Tel. 956 511 312<br />
Fax 956 511 309<br />
■ CIUDAD REAL<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
CIUDAD REAL Ctra. de Carrión, Km. 1.<br />
Tel. 926 251 730<br />
Fax 926 255 741<br />
ALCAZAR DE SAN JUAN<br />
Corredera, 56.<br />
Tel./Fax 926 546 727<br />
TOMELLOSO Avda. de los Industriales,<br />
parcela 9.<br />
Tel. 926 259 206<br />
Fax 926 529 207<br />
■ CÓRDOBA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
CÓRDOBA Ctra. Nacional IV, Km. 404.<br />
Pol. de Torrecilla.<br />
Tel. 957 760 024<br />
Fax 957 760 123<br />
JOSE SÁNCHEZ CARRETERO<br />
CASTRO DEL RÍO Ronda Vieja<br />
Salud, 68.<br />
Tel./Fax 957 372 775<br />
FRAPECO DECO S.L.<br />
LUCENA Ejido Plaza de Toros.<br />
Tel. 957 509 334<br />
ANTONIO HIDALGO SALIDO<br />
MONTILLA Avda. Andalucía, 36.<br />
Tel. 957 651 726<br />
JUAN PRIETO E HIJOS S.L.<br />
VILLA DEL RIO Carretera<br />
Bujalance, s/n.<br />
Tel. 957 177 693<br />
Fax 957 177 335<br />
Tel. 972 423 018<br />
Fax 972 423 051<br />
CORNELLA DEL TERRI Ctra. De<br />
Girona a Banyoles, Km. 12,8.<br />
Tel. 972 594 131<br />
Fax 972 594 552<br />
FIGUERES Ctra. N-II Km. 759.<br />
Tel. 972 672 259<br />
Fax 972 672 255<br />
LES PRESSES Pol. Ind. Les Presses.<br />
Parcella 20.<br />
Tel. 972 694 704<br />
Fax 972 693 003<br />
PALOL D’ONYAR-QUART Ctra.<br />
Comarcal C-250, Km. 4,3.<br />
Tel. 972 468 119<br />
Fax 972 468 123<br />
BRECOR S.L.<br />
BLANES Ctra. Tordera, 79.<br />
Tel. 972 336 062<br />
Fax 972 358 482<br />
MATERIALES CREIXELL<br />
ESCLANYÀ-BEGUR Palafrugel<br />
Regencos P.I. Riera Esclanya, 1.<br />
Tel. 972 300 628<br />
Fax 972 610 772<br />
■ GRANADA<br />
TECMACER<br />
ARMILLA Avda. San Rafael<br />
(Junto Sprinter).<br />
Tel. 958 253 081<br />
Fax 958 183 367<br />
■ GUIPÚZCOA<br />
JORGE FERNÁNDEZ<br />
GUIPUZKOA<br />
SAN SEBASTIÁN Pol. Belartza.<br />
Fernando Múgika, 15.<br />
Tel. 943 376 966<br />
Fax 943 376 841<br />
Pol. Inca.<br />
Tel. 971 507 650<br />
Fax 971 507 656<br />
SANT ANTONI DE PORTMANY (IBIZA)<br />
Pol. Monte Cristo, s/n. Ctra. Ibiza.<br />
Tel. 971 317 292<br />
Fax 971 317 293<br />
MAGATZEM SES FORQUES<br />
LLUCMAJOR (MALLORCA) Doctor<br />
Fleming, 10.<br />
Tel. 971 662 114<br />
Fax 971 662 8<strong>16</strong><br />
PORCELANOSA SOLLER (CA’N<br />
SOLER) Calle del mar,<strong>16</strong>7<br />
Tel. 971 630 219<br />
PORCELANOSA MANACOR<br />
(GALMES) Calle Vía Palma, 102<br />
Tel. 971 554 502<br />
MACODOR, Ctra. Calonge-Cala<br />
D’Or Km. 1,5<br />
Tel. 971 658 210<br />
■ JAÉN<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
JAÉN Polígono Olivares. Carretera<br />
Bailén-Motril, Km 323.<br />
Tel./Fax 953 284 035<br />
HNOS. MESA QUESADA<br />
CAMPILLOS DE ARENAS Ctra.<br />
Casablanca, s/n.<br />
Tel. 953 309 523<br />
VIFERSAN S.L.<br />
HUELMA Virgen de la Fuensanta, 61.<br />
Tel. 953 391 413<br />
HERNÁNDEZ GÁMEZ S.L.<br />
LINARES Ctra. Torreblascopedro, s/n.<br />
Tel./Fax 953 693 423<br />
ÚBEDA Avda. de la Libertad, 88.<br />
Tel./Fax 953 735 <strong>16</strong>8<br />
MAT. CONST. Y SAN. HIJOS<br />
MARTÍN SÁNCHEZ<br />
VILLACARRILLO José Rodero<br />
Mataran, 53.<br />
Tel. 953 454 <strong>16</strong>7<br />
■ LA RIOJA<br />
RIOJACER<br />
LOGROÑO Avda. de Burgos, 43.<br />
Tel. 941 286 021<br />
Fax 941 202 271<br />
■ LAS PALMAS<br />
PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS<br />
LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA<br />
Avda. Mesa y López, 63.<br />
Tel. 928 472 949<br />
Fax 928 472 944<br />
■ LEÓN<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
SAN ANDRÉS DEL RABANEDO<br />
Ctra. León-Astorga, Km. 3,5.<br />
Tel. 987 801 570<br />
Fax 987 801 475<br />
■ LLEIDA<br />
PRETENSADOS RIBERA<br />
EL PONT DE SUERT Ctra. N-230,<br />
Km. 124,5.<br />
Tel. 973 690 063<br />
Fax 973 690 400<br />
LUGO Tolda de Castilla, s/n.<br />
Tel. 982 245 725<br />
■ MADRID<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
LEGANÉS Avda. Recomba, 13. Pol.<br />
La Laguna. Salida 53-M50.<br />
Tel. 914 819 200<br />
Fax 9<strong>16</strong> 930 292<br />
ALCOBENDAS Parque Río Norte.<br />
Tel. 9<strong>16</strong> 623 232<br />
Fax 9<strong>16</strong> 624 607<br />
ALCORCÓN Ctra. N-V, Km. 15,5.<br />
Parque Oeste de Alcorcón.<br />
Tel. 9<strong>16</strong> 890 172<br />
Fax 9<strong>16</strong> 890 170<br />
MADRID Ortega y Gasset, 62. Esquina<br />
Conde Peñalver.<br />
Tel. 914 448 460<br />
Fax 914 025 111<br />
Alcalá, 514.<br />
Tel. 917 545 <strong>16</strong>1<br />
Fax 917 545 555<br />
■ MÁLAGA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
MÁLAGA Avda. Velázquez, 77.<br />
Tel. 952 241 375<br />
Fax 952 240 092<br />
ANTEQUERA Río de la Villa, 3. Pol.<br />
Industrial.<br />
Tel. 952 701 819<br />
Fax 952 843 751<br />
MARBELLA Avda. Ricardo Soriano, 65.<br />
Tel. 952 826 868<br />
Fax 952 822 880<br />
■ MELILLA<br />
MELIRIF S.L.<br />
MELILLA Paseo Marítimo Mir Berlanga,<br />
23. Edificio Athena. Local 1.<br />
Tel. 952 696 174<br />
Fax 952 696 331<br />
■ MURCIA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
MURCIA Avda. Juan de Borbón, s/n.<br />
Parque Comercial Thader.<br />
Tel. 968 879 527<br />
Fax 981 831 725<br />
CARAVACA DE LA CRUZ Avda. Ctra.<br />
Granada, 20.<br />
Tel. 968 705 647<br />
Fax 968 705 648<br />
CARTAGENA Belgrado. Parcela 81.<br />
Pol. Industrial Cabezo Beaza.<br />
Tel. 968 529 302<br />
Fax 968 528 362<br />
LORCA Ctra. de Granada, 127.<br />
Pol. Ind. Los Peñones.<br />
Tel. 968 478 130<br />
Fax 968 470 820<br />
YECLA Avda. de la Paz, 195.<br />
Tel./Fax 968 718 048<br />
■ NAVARRA<br />
MONTEJO CERÁMICAS<br />
MUTILVA BAJA Pol. Ctra. Tajonar, Calle<br />
2, Naves 2-4.<br />
Tel. 948 239 065<br />
Fax 948 230 503<br />
PALENCIA Juan Ramón Jiménez, 4-6.<br />
Tel. 979 706 421<br />
Fax 979 702 652<br />
■ PONTEVEDRA<br />
SANEAMIENTOS ROSALES<br />
SEIXO, MARÍN Doctor Otero Ulloa, 1.<br />
Tel. 986 702 041<br />
Fax 986 702 080<br />
VIGO García Barbón, 139-B.<br />
Tel. 986 228 806<br />
GREMASA<br />
Monte Faquiña-Tameiga. MOS.<br />
Tel. 986 288 041<br />
■ SALAMANCA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
SALAMANCA Pol. Villares. Ctra.<br />
Salamanca-Valladolid, Km. 2,5.<br />
Tel. 923 243 811<br />
Fax 923 123 414<br />
■ SANTA CRUZ DE<br />
TENERIFE<br />
PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS<br />
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE<br />
Avda. 3 de Mayo, 18.<br />
Tel. 922 209 595<br />
Fax 922 209 596<br />
SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA<br />
Abenguareme, 3.<br />
Tel. 922 412 143<br />
Fax 922 420 012<br />
LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE<br />
Las Rosas, s/n.<br />
Tel. 922 461 112<br />
Fax 922 461 <strong>16</strong>6<br />
■ SEGOVIA<br />
SEGOCER<br />
EL ESPINAR Ctra. Madrid-<br />
A Coruña, Km. 64.<br />
Tel. 921 172 426<br />
Fax 921 171 828<br />
SEGOVIA José Zorrilla, 134.<br />
Tel. 921 444 122<br />
■ SEVILLA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
SEVILLA Pol. Ind. La Negrilla.<br />
Tipografía s/n (Autovía A-92,<br />
dirección Granada).<br />
Tel. 954 579 595<br />
Fax 954 578 304<br />
DOS HERMANAS Parque Cial., Zona 2.<br />
Doctor Fleming, Sector 13, Parcela 3.<br />
Tel./Fax 955 661 368<br />
TOMARES San Roque, s/n. Polígono<br />
El Manchón.<br />
Tel. 954 152 792<br />
Fax 954 153 188<br />
HERNÁNDEZ CARBALLO S.L.<br />
LORA DEL RÍO Betis s/n.<br />
Tel. 955 800 473<br />
Fax 955 801 439<br />
■ SORIA<br />
MAT. CONSTRUCCIÓN<br />
ODORICIO S.L.<br />
SORIA Pol. Las Casas-II. Calles A y J,<br />
parcela 201.<br />
Tel. 975 233 228<br />
Fax 975 232 188<br />
■ TARRAGONA<br />
MONSERRATE ESTIL CERAMIC S.L.<br />
CAMBRILS Pol. Ind. Belianes nau 5.<br />
Ctra. Cambrils-Montbrió.<br />
Tel. 977 364 900<br />
Fax 977 364 953<br />
VIUDA DE ANTONIO FONT<br />
EL VEDRELL Valls, 12.<br />
Tel. 977 660 794<br />
Fax 977 662 217<br />
SEGURA DISSENY S.L.<br />
REUS Plz. Del Nen de les Oques, 8.<br />
Tel. 977 312 502<br />
Fax 977 317 211<br />
CONSTRUCCIONS CIURO<br />
RODA DE BARA Acceso a Roda de<br />
Bara, Km. 1.<br />
Tel. 977 802 951<br />
Fax 977 802 012<br />
RAMÓN MAGRIÑA BATALLA<br />
Montblanc, 14.<br />
Tel. 977 600 210<br />
Fax 977 603 302<br />
■ TERUEL<br />
GARGÓN<br />
TERUEL Pol. La Paz, P. 143-149.<br />
Tel. 978 609 661<br />
■ VALENCIA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
ALBUIXECH Avda. Mediterráneo,<br />
parcela 6. Pol. Ind. del Mediterráneo.<br />
Tel. 961 400 561<br />
Fax 961 401 078<br />
GANDÍA Camí Vell de Daimus,<br />
parcela 307.<br />
Tel. 962 965 105<br />
Fax 962 965 980<br />
PATERNA Zona Cial. Heron City, Pista<br />
Ademuz, S. 6-7 - Calle V-1. Parc.1<br />
Sec.14.<br />
Tel. 963 <strong>16</strong>0 348<br />
Fax 963 <strong>16</strong>0 599<br />
SEDAVÍ Avenida Mediterráneo, 28.<br />
Zona Cial. de Sedaví.<br />
Tel. 963 185 021<br />
Fax 963 180 094<br />
VALENCIA Colón, 56.<br />
Tel. 963 530 230<br />
Fax 963 531 688<br />
■ VALLADOLID<br />
CANTALAPIEDRA<br />
VALLADOLID Don Sancho, 3/5.<br />
Tel. 983 217 921<br />
Fax 983 308 292<br />
Ctra. de Soria A-24, Km. 5.<br />
Tel. 983 217 010<br />
Fax 983 200 921<br />
■ VIZCAYA<br />
BILBU<br />
AMOREBIETA Barrio Boroa, s/n.<br />
Tel. 946 731 158<br />
Fax 946 733 265<br />
BILBAO Iturriaga, 78.<br />
Tel. 944 113 018<br />
Fax 944 128 637<br />
Alameda Recalde, 39-41.<br />
Tel. 944 218 625<br />
Fax 944 218 879<br />
■ ZAMORA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
ZAMORA Avda. Cardenal Cisneros, s/n.<br />
Tel. 980 519 283<br />
Fax 980 529 404<br />
■ ZARAGOZA<br />
PORCELANOSA<br />
ZARAGOZA Autovía de Logroño, Km. 2.<br />
Tel. 976 403 131<br />
Fax 976 300 094<br />
Plataforma Logística. Taormina, 2.<br />
Tel. 876 269 500<br />
Fax 876 269 389<br />
Parque Comercial Puerto Venecia.<br />
Tel. 976 930 800<br />
Fax 976 930 603<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
ALBANIA Tirana<br />
ARGENTINA Buenos Aires/ Mar<br />
del Plata/ Mendoza<br />
ARMENIA Yerevan<br />
AUSTRALIA Adelaide/<br />
Brisbane/ Hobart/ Launceston/<br />
Melbourne/ Newcastle West/ Perth/<br />
Sydney/ Sunshine Coast<br />
AUSTRIA Graz/ Linz/ Salzburg<br />
AZERBAIJAN Baku<br />
BAHRAIN Manamah<br />
BELGIUM Heist-op-den-berg<br />
BERMUDA Pembroke<br />
BOLIVIA Santa Cruz<br />
BOSNIA-<br />
HERZEGOVINA Banja Luka/<br />
Citluk/ Sarajevo<br />
BRAZIL Parana-Campo Largo<br />
BULGARIA Blagoevgrad/<br />
Burgas/ Petric/ Plovdiv/ Sofia/ Varna<br />
BYELORUSSIA Minsk<br />
CAMBODIA Phnom Penh<br />
CAMEROON Douala<br />
CANADA Moncton/ Vancouver/<br />
Woodbridge<br />
CHILE Santiago de Chile<br />
CHINA Beijing/ Chongqing/<br />
Dalian/ Fuzhou/ Guangzhou/ Haikou/<br />
Hangzhou/ Hong Kong/ Kunming/<br />
Shanghai/ Shenzhen/ Wenzhou/<br />
Wuhan/ Wuxi/ Xian<br />
COLOMBIA Cali<br />
CONGO REPUBLIC<br />
Kinshasa<br />
COSTA RICA San José<br />
CROATIA Dubrovnik/ Porec/<br />
Pula/ Rijeka/ Split/ Varazdin/ Zagreb<br />
CYPRUS Limassol<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC Liberec/<br />
Prague<br />
DENMARK Glostrup/ Odense<br />
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC<br />
Santo Domingo<br />
ECUADOR Guayaquil/ Quito<br />
EGYPT Cairo<br />
EL SALVADOR San Salvador<br />
ESTONIA Tallinn<br />
FINLAND Vantaa<br />
FRANCE Ajaccio/ Arcueil/<br />
Aubagne/ Beaucouze/ Besançon/<br />
Biguglia/ Brest/ Chambray les Tours/<br />
Champagne au Mont d’Or/ Chasseneuil<br />
du Poitou/ Chenôve/ Coignières/<br />
Guerande/ La Chapelle Saint Aubin/ La<br />
Roche-sur-Yon/ Les Pennes Mirabeau<br />
(Plan de Campagne)/ Lezennes/<br />
Lorient/ Merignac/ Mondeville/<br />
Montigny/ Nîmes/ Olivet/ Orvault/<br />
Perols/ Saint-Gregoire/ Sotteville les<br />
Rouen/ Vannes/ Vendenheim/ Vert<br />
Saint Denis/ Wittenheim<br />
FRENCH GUIANA Cayenne<br />
GEORGIA Tbilisi<br />
GERMANY ACHIM/<br />
Aschaffenburg/ Bad Salzuflen/<br />
Bautzen/ Beeskow/ Bergisch-<br />
Gladbach/ Berlin/ Boffzen/ Bottrop/<br />
Bruchsal/ Burgstädt/ Crailsheim/<br />
Dortmund/ Elterlein/ Erkrath/<br />
ERFURT/ Frankfurt/ Freiburg/<br />
Fulda/ Gera/ Görlitz/ Nuremberg/<br />
Hamburg/ Haren/ EMS/ Itzehoe/<br />
Kehl/ Koblenz/ Kranichfeld/<br />
Löbnitz/ Lübeck/ Mainz/ Meschede/<br />
Münster/ Munich/ Nordhausen/<br />
Plauen/ Postdam OT Fahrland/<br />
Radebeul/ Reutlingen/ Ronnenberg/<br />
Schramberg/ Schwabach/ Stuhr-<br />
Moordrecht/ Stuttgart/ Völklinger/<br />
Vs-Schwenningen/ Weinsberg/<br />
Wiesbaden-Biebrich/ Zwethau<br />
GREECE Attica/ Athens/<br />
Larissa/ Lefkada/ Loannina/ Serres/<br />
Thessalonica<br />
GUADELOUPE (WEST<br />
INDIES) Baie Mahault/ Saint<br />
Bartholomew<br />
GUATEMALA Guatemala City<br />
HAITI Puerto Príncipe/ Petionville<br />
HUNGARY Budapest/ Debrecen/<br />
Eger/ Gyongyus/ Miskolc<br />
ICELAND Reykjavik<br />
INDIA New Delhi<br />
INDONESIA Bandung/ Jakarta/<br />
Semarang/ Surabaya<br />
IRAN Teheran<br />
IRELAND Cork<br />
ISRAEL Haifa/ Bnei Brak/ Modi’in/<br />
Raanana/ Rishon LeZion/ Jerusalem<br />
ITALY Andria/Corsico/ Sassuolo/<br />
Rome<br />
IVORY COAST Abidjan<br />
JERSEY ISLAND St. Saviour<br />
JORDAN Amman<br />
KAZAKHSTAN Almaty<br />
KYRGYZ REPUBLIC<br />
Bishkek<br />
KOSOVO Pristina<br />
KUWAIT Safat<br />
LATVIA Riga<br />
LEBANON Beirut<br />
LIBYA Benghazi/ Tripoli<br />
LITHUANIA Alytus<br />
Jelenia Góra/ Katowice/ Kielce/<br />
Krakow/ Lodz/ Lublin/ Opole/ Poznan/<br />
Radom/ Rzeszow/ Sopot/ Szczecin/<br />
Torun/ Warsaw/ Wroclaw<br />
PORTUGAL Guia Albufeira/<br />
Lisbon/ Porto/ Viseu<br />
PRINCIPALITY OF<br />
ANDORRA Andorra la Vella<br />
QATAR<br />
REUNION ISLAND Saint<br />
Denis/ Saint Pierre<br />
RUMANIA Bacau/ Brasov/<br />
Bucharest/ Constanta/ Craiova/ Iasi/<br />
Oradea/ Pitesti/ Ploiesti<br />
RUSSIA Bryansk/ Ekaterinburg/<br />
Irkutsk/ Kazan/ Krasnodar/<br />
Krasnoyarsk/ Makhachkala/ Moscow/<br />
Novosibirsk/ Rostov-na-Donu/ Samara/<br />
Sochi/ Petersburg/ Stavropol/ Surgut/<br />
Tyumen<br />
SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah/<br />
Riyadh<br />
SENEGAL Dakar<br />
SERBIA Belgrade/ Novi Sad<br />
S<strong>ING</strong>APORE Singapore<br />
SLOVENIA Ljubljana/ Maribor<br />
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town/<br />
Durban/ Johannesburg<br />
SOUTH KOREA Seoul<br />
SUDAN Khartoum<br />
SWEDEN Danderyd/ Enköping/<br />
Hässleholm/ Malmö/ Mölndal<br />
SWITZERLAND Basel/ Bern/<br />
Cressier/ Geneva/ Lanquart/ Losone/<br />
Lucerne/ Pura/ Schlieren<br />
SYRIA<br />
TAIWAN Kaohsiung/ Taichung/<br />
Tainan/ Taipei<br />
THAILAND Bangkok/ Pattaya<br />
TOGO Lome<br />
TUNISIA Tunis/ Tunis Cedex<br />
TURKEY Istanbul<br />
UKRAINE Donetsk/ Kharkov/<br />
Kiev/ Odessa<br />
UNITED ARAB<br />
EMIRATES Abu Dhabi<br />
UNITED K<strong>ING</strong>DOM<br />
Bangor/ Birmingham/ Bristol/<br />
Cardiff/ Croydon/ Doncaster/<br />
Edinburgh/ Exeter/ Fulham/<br />
Glasgow/ Leeds/ Leicester/ London/<br />
Manchester/ Newcastle/Norwich/<br />
Nottingham/ Peterborough/ Reading/<br />
Sheffield/ Solihull/ Southampton/<br />
Warrington/ Watford<br />
URUGUAY Montevideo<br />
UZBEKISTAN<br />
USA Anaheim/ Boston/ Chicago/<br />
East Brunswick/ Dallas/ Miami/<br />
Paramus/ Pompano Beach/ Ramsey/<br />
Riverside/ Rockville/ San José/<br />
Westbury<br />
PORCELANOSA NYC<br />
New York Design Center<br />
200 Lexington Ave, suite 609<br />
New York, NY 100<strong>16</strong><br />
Tel. 212 252 7370<br />
VENEZUELA Caracas<br />
VIETNAM Hanoi/ Ho Chi<br />
Minh City<br />
YEMEN<br />
89
90<br />
WE’LL BE TALK<strong>ING</strong> ABOUT...<br />
World Trade Center<br />
Transportation Hub<br />
World Trade Center<br />
Transportation Hub is an<br />
ambitious project commissioned by the Port<br />
Authority of New York & New Jersey to the<br />
well-known architect Santiago Calatrava so as<br />
to replace the old transportation hub destroyed<br />
in the 9/11 attacks. A focus point whose<br />
functional objective will be to significantly<br />
improve the connections with Lower Manhattan:<br />
the PATH trains and underground lines (1, 9, N<br />
and R) will converge there. Besides, it will also<br />
serve as a nexus to link the Towers 1-4, Liberty<br />
Place, Memorial Site and the World Financial<br />
Center.<br />
In order to hugely simplify that which might look<br />
like a confused maze of underground passages,<br />
Calatrava has projected the transport hub so<br />
that it can be perceived as a series of distinct<br />
spaces but with unifying characteristics, such as<br />
colour and materials: steel, concrete, stone and<br />
glass prevail. Concerning lighting, the architect<br />
has given great importance to natural light, as a<br />
powerful symbol of hope and vitality.<br />
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is<br />
scheduled to be completed at the beginning of<br />
2015. It will be another of the different reshaping<br />
projects developed at Ground Zero to promote<br />
again this New York district. /<br />
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA<br />
To summarize in this<br />
page the work of this<br />
Valencian architect and<br />
sculptor specialized in big<br />
structures would be virtually<br />
impossible. For this reason,<br />
we will only highlight his<br />
Prince of Asturias Award<br />
for the Arts, his National<br />
Architecture Award and<br />
his American Institute of<br />
Architects Gold Medal.<br />
Photos: SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, LLC<br />
RETRATO: MICHAEL FALCO