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JOB OFFER

OPEN POSITIONS FROM SEPTEMBER IN PARIS

It’s not about the tools, it’s about your ideas and your attitude.  If you believe that space matters and it is still an agent of change. If you believe that technology should lead us to beauty and poetry. If you believe that we act through disciplines, meanings and processes. 

City of Millau - France.

ABACO SHORTLISTED FOR NEW MILLAU SCHOOL

Portes Ouvertes des Architectes 2016.

ABACO OPEN DOORS

For the second year, in 2015 we were in Volumes Coworking, we are joining the event Portes Ouvertes des Architectes in France. Even if we are still not completely installed in the new location, we will be exceptionally open to the public during the 3rd of June and the 4th of June. We will be happy to welcome you, drink a glass of wine, show you our brand new office and talk about our recent and on-going projects. 

CITY OF PADUA.

PRIZE GENERAZIONE MERITO

We are really excited to be in Padua (Italy) on Saturday 7 May 2016 for being awarded by the city’s cultural department with the Prix Generazione Merito.

The Prix aims to valorize 3 young talents who are emerging at a national and international level with their projects. It’s a great honour for us to be among them and a huge motivation to keep on working hard.

MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2016.

PRIZE FLORIM | Exhibit -It

During the 2016 of the Milan Design Week | Salone del Mobile, we were in Milan to receive the Prix Florim as part of the Florim4Architects event at the flagship showroom in Milan of the renowned ceramic brand.

FEAR OF COLUMNS COMPETITION.

CAESURA FINALIST IN BARCELONA  

We recently partecipated to a truly challenging competition in Barcelona, the Fear of Columns Competition promoted by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. The goal was to imagine something to evoke the original ionic columns that inspired Mies during the design of the famous Barcelona Pavilion. A great and inspiring challenge to face such an important building for the architectural culture. It led us to question our most deep identity and certitudes in an intense trip that we finally tried to express through CAESURA.

SPECIAL GUEST ON NEW ITALIAN BLOOD PLATFORM.

ABACO ON NIB 

EXHIB-IT COMPETITION FOR MILAN DESIGN WEEK.

2nd Place with BOOM! 

Great news from Italy! Our project BOOM! for an installation inside FLORIM showroom in Milan has won the second place. The competition was part of the Milan Design Week 2016. BOOM! has been conceived starting from the interior architecture of the showroom characterized by a series of vertical elements like contemporary dolmens made of ceramic. BOOM! as the word suggest talks about an explosion.

REINVENTER PARIS - Appel à Projet

FLEX EDISON

Yesterday abacO was at the Pavillion de l’Arsenal in Paris to support the FLEX EDISON project. Flex has been selected as one of the four finalists for the Edison site area in the 13th arrondissement in Paris, as part of the Reinventer Paris competition.

Among Sou Fujimoto, David Chipperfield and many others, the team leaded by CD Architecture and Bidard&Raissi deserved a great second place. abacO had the great pleasure to contribute to the project and being part of this great team.

MERRY XMAS & HAPPY 2016!

The 2015 has been an amazing year for abacO.  We started with a Pecha Kucha talk at Volumes Coworking and we are ending with a robotic fabrication research and preparing construction drawings for our first house to be built in the center of Paris.

In between, many projects, competitions, travels, new friends and collaborations. Surely, one of the most exciting and intense moment was the project we did for the Biennale Maggia 2015 in Italy that won the honorable mention. At this link you can see more images of our art installation.

Now we need some days of rest to recharge the batteries. The 2016 promises to be even more interesting and exciting. Stay tuned. We will announce soon some big news regarding our projects and our growth strategies.

BRING LIFE - Robotic Fabrication Research.

TATTOO FURNITURE PROJECT

After 2 months of tests and prototyps with the KUKA Agilus at the workshop, we recently started one of the several researches we will be working in the 2016. 

Food Wine & CO. Conference, Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

HIGH TECH, HIGH TOUCH, HIGH TASTE

The IV Edition of the “Food Wine & Co” event will be held in Rome at the Cinecittà Studios on the 19/20th November 2015. We have been invited to talk about our work and our experience between design, new technologies and food. 

The event is organized by the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. You can see the detailed program at the link of the University, and an article at this link (both in italian).

Padova Soft City, Competition & Research.

#PLAY PADOVA. REPORT

The report of the research we did in collaboration with a multidisciplinar team for a large area of the city of Padova (Italy) is finally online, at this link.

Premio Federico Maggia 2015.

HONORABLE MENTION FOR PALOMAR

Good News. We received an honorable mention with our installation Palomar / Trame Digitali during the vernissage of the Biennale Maggia 2015 which took place on the 9th of October in Biella, at the Lanificio Sella.

It will be possible to see Palomar untill the 27th of November, closing day of the event.

Biennale Maggia 2015.

PALOMAR - VERNISSAGE

After a long week of hard work, inside the amazing old Sella building, we are happy to invite you at the vernissage of our artpiece Palomar / Trame Digitali.

Rovine dal Futuro: a new story from Venice

MORTE A VENEZIA / DEATH IN VENICE

As you know, we love to imagine stories and design [im]possible futures. Morte a Venezia is a strongly ironic one. It recently received lot of attention on the italian media along with an architectural episode occurred in Venice.

Biennale Barbara Capocchin 2015

SUR LA TABLE MENTIONED AT THE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE CAPOCCHIN 2015.

Our proposal has been listed as one of the ten best design projects in the “I Tavoli dell’Architettura” contest.