QbiQ meets Cartoni during the Dutch Design Week
The nine-day Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in October in Eindhoven every year. The biggest design event of Northern Europe will be presenting work and concepts of more than 2,600 designers to more than 335,000 visitors from the Netherlands and abroad. Spread over about 100 locations throughout town, DDW will organise and facilitate among others exhibitions, lectures, distribution of prizes, network meetings, debates and festivities.
Cartoni Design
A style room that makes you forget that every square centimetre was produced sustainably. Cartoni Design presents the style room in Area51 in cooperation with QbiQ. From watse flows to interior products. QbiQ presents the story about how high quality products are made from leftover material. To inspire the visitors and to show how valuable our raw materials are.
Marijn Muller, founder of Cartoni Design, will bedesigning the style room with products of his Dutch Design label in a temporary layout developed in cooperation with partners who believe that a circular economy is of utmost importance.
More information can be found here on the Dutch Design Week website.
QbiQ sponsor of ARC Awards
ARC Awards is an initiative of ‘de Architect’. It is the only design prize in the Netherlands and Flanders from chair to city. The Awards shed light on the very best work in the categories architecture, interior, furniture, detail, innovation, development, young talent and oeuvre. QbiQ is one of the sponsors of this initiative.
The objective is to celebrate the significance and the power of design and to promote it for a wide audience. Meanwhile, the ARC Awards have acquired a fixed place in the Dutch architectural landscape. Winning an Award can be of importance for a designer for the next step or for taking on a new assignment. In addition, it sees to obtaining valuable attention and gaining prestige. The fact that each Award is assessed by an independent jury makes it a unique instrument for architecture.
Read more on the Arc Awards website.
QbiQ partner World Architecture Festival
The World Architecture Festival (WAF), which takes place in Amsterdam this year, has announced its speakers programme. The line-up includes, among others, Rem Koolhaas, David Adjaye, Peter Cook and Jeanne Gang. The WAF is organised in the RAI from 28 to 30 November and the theme is Identity. QbiQ participates in this festival and would like to enter into dialogue with visitors from across the world.
The WAF, which was organised for the first time in Barcelona in 2008 and then called in at various cities from around the world, will be organised in the Netherlands for the first time. Partly for this reason, the programme of speakers has a somewhat ‘Dutch’ flavour, with lectures from, among others, Francine Houben, Kees Christiaanse and Caroline Bos.
The international names include, among others, John Wardle, Chad Oppenheim and Aaron Betsky. The WAF believes that the highlight of the speakers programme is an interview of architecture critic Charles Jencks with Rem Koolhaas, with a focus on the current and future concept of a global architecture identity.
‘Identity’ is expounded at the festival in the expression of individual, common, civil and national identity in architecture, but also about how buildings and places are increasingly becoming part of the discussion about ethnic and gender identity.
The programme of the WAF includes lectures, discussions and presentations. In addition, the WAF Awards will be presented in no less than 33 categories. Parallel to the WAF, the RAI will be hosting the Inside World Festival of Interiors, with speakers such as India Mahdavi, Christina Seilern, Eva Jiricná and Maria Warner Wong.
Source: Architectenweb.nl
Read more on the World Architecture Festival website.
Cradle 2 Cradle Café: Dutch Design Week edition
The Cradle to Cradle Café is an initiative that originated in 2009 from a collaboration between the companies Koninklijke Ahrend, Tarkett, Koninklijke Mosa and QbiQ.. These companies develop and produce their products according to the Cradle to Cradle principles.
Spreading a range of ideas
However, they take things a little further and dedicate themselves to spreading the Cradle to Cradle range of ideas. This is why, among others, the Cradle to Cradle Café was created. Cradle to Cradle Café’s are mini seminars in which topical and varied subjects in the area of Cradle to Cradle and sustainability are discussed by various inspirational speakers. For instance, you will be informed in detail about a contemporary sustainability theme in the construction sector. The cafés take place four times a year in various regions in the Netherlands.
Free entrance
The seminars are usually held in the morning, followed by a (networking) lunch. Entrance is free. The upcoming edition coincides with the Dutch Design Week on 25 October in Eindhoven. Read more about the content of this event on the Cradle 2 Cradle Café site.
The favourites of the Herengracht Industry Prize 2018 are known
The nominations of the biannual Herengracht Industry Prize 2018 have been announced. The high quality and diversity, the clear, exciting and somewhat radical concepts, the attractive field of tension between interior and architecture and the merging of various disciplines to fascinating Gesamtkunstwerken, typify the submissions according to the jury.
The submitted projects of this third edition of the Herengracht Industry Prize 2018 also indicate that the crisis is over. According to the jury ‘the so-called ‘crisis aesthetics’ with low-budget materials, exposed concrete and low-tech constructions are paving the way for smart interventions, new lighting systems, more high quality construction material, increased sustainability and circularity and tailored design.’
The nominees are
Museum Voorlinden by Kraaijvanger Architects
Reception pavilion Brick Factory Vogelensangh by Bedaux de Brouwer Architects.
Auditorium cemetery Zoom- en Zegestede by pole productions. View the project on the website of the H.I.P. 2018
Matryoshka House by Shift architecture urbanism & Makina
Blaak House by V8 Architects. View the project on the website of the H.I.P. 2018
Jury
The jury of the Herengracht Industry Prize 2018 consists of Patrick Koschuch (Van Dongen-Koschuch), Saskia Simon (OMA), Erik Kessels (KesselsKramer), Tanja Soeter (Hema) and Indira van ’t Klooster (architecture journalist).
The winner will be announced on 14 June. In 2016 Maurice Mentjens won the prize for the House of Smart.
Salone del Mobile
Salone del Mobile starts on 17 April. This international design fair takes place in April every year. This year QbiQ is the sponsor of Bar Anne.
Bar Anne is a new concept where everything is related. A show bar, place to hang out and a meeting point in one, it offers a complete experience. Made by designers, for designers, it’s a completely Dutch product. It was developed by Rick Tegelaar, VanTot, Mae Engelgeer, Klaas Kuiken, Dirk van der Kooij, Jolan van der Wiel, HandMade Industrials, Jelle Mastenbroek, Sabine Marcelis, Brit van Nerven, Kranen/Gille and Aart van Asseldonk.
Bar Anne is not your average exhibition, you can try out everything: sitting, lying down, jumping and even sleeping and eating. The bar opens at 11 am, lunch is served around noon, followed by an aperitif, dinner and cocktail hour to shake things up. There will of course be music and time to dance until very late.
It won’t only be about feeding and entertaining design lovers, there will also be talks about all related aspects.
Bar Anne is located centrally between the famous Zona Tortona and the city centre in the historic Museo Diocesano. This special location was converted into a brand new hotspot in the city that welcomes anyone who is curious and creative. Bar Anne is open from Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 April for snacks, drinks, music and more, from 11 am to 1 am.
QbiQ Wall Systems is taking part in the Circular Expo at Building Holland!
QbiQ Wall Systems is taking part in the largest travelling collection of circular products in Europe. The next stop is Building Holland. In the ´Buildings As Materials Banks´installation, developed by EPEA Nederland, visitors experience how buildings can serve as material banks, in an interactive way. The installation consists of more than 70 products that are each circular, demountable and recyclable. The visitor can ‘scan’ the products and read the Materials Passports of these product directly on his own smartphone. Go to www.epea.nl/rems for video, photos and the itinerary of the exhibition!
The European Buildings As Materials Banks (www.bamb2020.eu) project develops tools to convert the construction industry from traditionally linear to innovative circular. Two tools are central here: Reversible Building Design and Materials Passports.
Reversible Building Design focuses on designing buildings for adaptability during use, and reusability after use.
Materials Passports form the essential platform to enable this reuse by making crucial information available about, for instance, the composition, take-back systems and (de)installation instructions.
Visit the´Buildings As Materials Banks´exhibition at stand 11.084 of the RAI at Building Holland and you are welcome at one of the organised tours and/or the presentations of Ernst-Jan Mul (Wed 18 April 12:25 – 12:45 pm, Inspirante stage) and Elma Durmisevic (Wed 18 April 1:05 – 1:25 pm, Nexus stage).
Do you have any questions or would you like to register for a tour? Send an e-mail to massop@epea.com
Test: EI30 fire-resistant facade with 0-joint
Our new EI30 fire-resistant glass wall with 33 mm profile was tested today. This wall is an extension of the IQ Protect range that also consists of fire, smoke, and impact-resistant glass walls. As expected, the glass facade passed the test with flying colours and is now officially certified.
This fire-resistant facade is unique in several ways. Firstly because it doesn’t require a vertical support, so one can create a full glass wall where EI30 classification is required. Secondly, the wall is remarkable because it has a ground and ceiling profile of just 33 mm height so it seamlessly fits with all other QbiQ modular walls that also all have a 33 mm profile.
HIP Herengracht industry prize
The HIP (Herengracht industry prize), of which QbiQ is a partner, takes place every other year.
This biannual award is presented to an architect or interior architect for an interior project realised in the Netherlands. We are currently working hard to make this year another success. The HIP is an event where interior architects can send in projects. The winner receives the HIP Trophy and €2,500 in cash.
The idea for this prize originated in the Lensvelt HUB at Herengracht in Amsterdam. HIP wants to give architects and/or interior architects who realise high-grade projects and are loyal to the industry a pat on the back. To put it differently: an architect who goes for quality, sustainability, originality and authenticity.
The third edition of this wonderful award will take place in 2018. Once again, attention will be paid to high-grade interior projects realised in the Netherlands.
To take part, make sure the project is realised between 14 April 2016 and 14 April 2018. Submitting is possible up to 14 April 2018 on www.herengrachtindustrieprijs.nl (you can send in several projects). The winner will be announced in Amsterdam on 14 June 2018. You can expect a possible personal invitation to this festive award ceremony at the end of April.
Completed: Housing corporation Viveste in Bunnik
We recently supplied two fire resistant facades at housing corporation Viveste in Bunnik. What makes these IQ-Protect wall so unique is that the glass panels are connected to each other with an 0-joint (sealant joint) instead of always having to place a vertical stand. This creates one big glass wall. The walls at Viveste are EW30 certified.
For pictures, visit: QbiQ Gallery
