The third Material Vision – Materials for Product Development, Design and Architecture, International Trade Fair and Conference – ended on 23 November 2007 with a slight increase in the number of visitors. On the two days of the fair, 2,034 product developers, architects and designers from 27 countries came to the ‘Forum’ of Frankfurt Fair [...]
Leipzig’s duo event comprising the Z - Subcontracting Fair and the intec is once again expecting more than 1,000 exhibitors from all over Europe from February 26 to 29, 2008. Both trade fairs are closely connected with the industrial development taking place in Central Germany, where the most prominent industrial segments are automobile and [...]
Finnish elevator and escalator giant Kone has said that the Austrian cartel court has found Kone’s Austrian subsidiary and four other companies operating in the elevator and escalator industry to have been involved in anticompetitive practices, and consequently imposed a fine of EUR 22.5 million on Kone’s Austrian subsidiary.
The Austrian cartel court notified Kone’s Austrian [...]
The UK-based lighting company Thorn, a brand of the Zumtobel Group of Austria, is to illuminate heritage sites in the City of Jericho on the Palestinian West Bank. The project is one outcome of an initiative launched by The Lighting Urban Community International Association (LUCI), an international network of over 70 municipalities, universities, lighting designers [...]
Pipe producers and fittings manufacturers from Europe to China are recognising the processing and long-term performance benefits of recent introductions to the BorSafe product range from Borealis, a provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions. BorSafe polyethylene (PE) pressure pipe and fitting grades reflect Borealis’ commitment to contributing to better, safer and more durable pipe [...]
Whistler, B.C. – Intrawest and Whistler Blackcomb Resort have announced the start of construction on a peak-to-peak $52 milllion gondola. The lift system will be the longest, continuous unsupported span in the world, extending 3.024 km from the Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain to the Rendezvous Lodge on Blackcomb Mountain. Rising 415 meters above the [...]
Flughafen Wien AG’s ongoing construction of a new 150,000 square metre pier at Vienna’s Schwechat airport could face a building stop on concerns raised by the European Union’s environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas.
According to the newest issue of the Austrian weekly ‘Der Profil’, Dimas informed Austrian authorities on March 21 that his office believes construction of [...]
Sparkassen Immobilien and ECE to invest EUR 180m in Shopping- and Office Center in Sofia
*Construction permit issued for Serdika Center
*Investment volume: EUR 180m
* 200 stores – 2000 new jobs
Vienna stock listed Sparkassen Immobilien AG, the real estate investment company of Erste Bank is developing together with ECE Projektmanagement, Hamburg, the European market leader for shopping [...]
The UK-based lighting manufacturer Thorn, a brand of the Austrian Zumtobel Group, is to build a new production facility in Spennymoor in the north east of England. The appropriate planning permission was granted at the beginning of the year by the local authorities in Spennymoor. The move will involve transfer of production operations from the [...]
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]
Top London architect Zaha Hadid is behind a spectacular new link that will take passengers from the centre of Innsbruck, the capital of the Tirol, to the cableways on the Hungerburg mountain, a distance of 2,000 metres in just 27 minutes for both skiing and exceptional city views. From here, the newly renovated `Nordkette’ cableway, [...]
Tatiana Pogrebnyak was honoured at the Triumph Fashion Award 2006 celebration in Vienna, Austria.
Her designs on the theme “Dress up for Mozart – Rock up Rococo!†have been elected by the international jury out of more than 1,500 drawings which have interpreted Mozart and his time Rococo in a modern way.
Tatiana Pogrebnyak (born in Ukraine, [...]