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World Architecture Festival, a unique event that celebrates the biggest architects’ works, on the 24th of October in Barcelona has conferred to the architecture studio Grafton Architects the award as "best building of the world in 2008" for the Milan’s Bocconi University project, realized with GranitiFiandre’s materials.
The Festival director, Paul Finch, has praised the building as it reflects the city’s character, describing it as a totally 3d piece of design.
The jury was enthusiastic about the project, for its physical and conceptual density, which has received many positive feedbacks, crediting the value of Bocconi University project, that brought the city into the campus, uniting the life of Milan with the life of the University.

The Azul Bateig material, belonging to the NewStone collection by GranitiFiandre has been used to pave all connection areas and all the storeys offices with raised floors: a product selected by Grafton Architects for its extreme resistance, an intrinsic characteristic of all GranitiFiandre’s materials.

An example of Italian quality combined to one of the most accredited worldwide architecture studios has given birth to an innovative and global interesting project, that has acknowledged the important award to Grafton Architects studio.

The restigious Bocconi University project has been published by the architecture reviews "Area 100" and "Materia", that have credited its importance dedicating detailed and relevant articles.

Besides, the Bocconi’s "e&m" review, economy & management, has chosen GranitiFiandre as a successful Case History for the small and medium industries sector, realizing an article titled "Communicating innovation in order to create value", with the collaboration of GranitiFiandre’s Key Account Director Gianfranco Sassi. A text that shows GranitiFiandre’s way of making innovation and transmitting it, converting a real product quality in a perceived quality, in order to create the value that differentiates the company towards the customers.

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Bocconi University - Milan
World Architecture Festival