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ASCER announces the VI Awards ceramics for architecture and interior design

15/06/2007

June 15, 2007

The Spanish Association of manufacturers of tiles and paving ceramic (Ascer) convenes for the sixth consecutive year the ceramics awards for architecture and interior design, with a total budget of € 50,000 (20,000 to the form of architecture, 20,000 for the category of Interior design and 10,000 for the category of final project)aimed at rewarding the architectural and interior design work to make the best use of ceramic tiles produced in Spain. The jury of this Edition, consisting of professionals from architecture and interior design, will be chaired by the prestigious architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. The deadline to present a work competition and provide the required documentation is on October 31.

In its form of architecture, the ceramics Awards recognize the work done by professionals in this discipline in new plant buildings, works of reform or rehabilitation of existing buildings, urban renovations and exterior landscapes. In the category of Interior design, the contest distinguishes the best works of decoration of interiors of new plant, reform or rehabilitation, as well as the environmental actions of short duration mounts.

The works that can attend these two modalities should have been completed within the period from January 2006 to October 2007. As a prerequisite is that they used flooring or ceramic coatings manufactured in Spain as important material in the formal part of the building.

The ceramics awards for architecture and interior design have experienced a significant evolution due to the increasing quality of the projects submitted and to the significant prestige and professionalism of the candidates. Shows, are the projects distinguished in the later editions of the awards in the category of architecture: the archive of Castilla la Mancha in Toledo, of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra; the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi Expo in Japan of Alejandro Zaera, and Farshid Moussavi; the rehabilitation of Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue; and the Palace of congresses of Peñíscola, of Ángela García Paredes and Ignacio GARCIA Pedrosa.