BlingCrete™ will be exhibiting at BAU 2013. The World’s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems takes place from January 14 to 19, 2013 at Messe München exhibition center. Once again the event is expected to attract around 2,000 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and approximately 240,000 visitors from all over the world. You...

BlingCrete™ is presented at the London Design Festival 2012 with the inaugural exhibition ‘Whiter than White’ – a collaboration between Materials Council and Architonic. Whiter than White is an exploration of the pursuit of ‘whiteness’ in the built environment. What makes a material white and what concessions must be made by designers in the face...

matériO, le labo will be showing BlingCrete™ at the 2012 edition of the prestigious fair MAISON ET OBJET in Paris. «SIMPLE MATTER(S)», as well as «SIMPLICITY MATTERS» are both referring to the pureness of simple materials and to the importance of simplicity in contemporary design. Actually, the exhibition will regroup a selection of materials, technologies,...

BlingCrete´s Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann give a talk about their research work at this year´s R+T: “On the third day of the fair, the new leading event for architects and planners celebrates its debut: ´The Art of Planning – Forum on architecture and integral planning´. International leading architects such as Dominique Perrault and numerous...

BlingCrete™ is going to participate in the largest construction and building material exhibition in the United Kingdom – Ecobuild 2012. This exhibition takes place since 2005, and it has become one of the main sector exhibitions and meeting place for architects, designers, ingeneers, investors, manufacturers, distributors etc. Ecobuild is the biggest event for sustainable design,...

The Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) provided the backdrop for the presentation of the iF awards at BMW Welt in Munich, held on February 10, 2012. BlingCrete™ received one of the coveted iF gold awards for highly innovative material development and outstanding design achievements. The winning entries of the internationally renowned design competition are also...

Kicking off in September, the DMY Asia Exhibition Tour will present BlingCrete™ at seven different trade fairs and festivals in Asia. The stations of the tour include: Taiwan Designers’ Week (Taipei/Taiwan)
 16.09.-25.09.2011 / Beijing Design Week (Beijing/China) 
28.09.-3.10.2011 / Taipei World Design Expo, Taiwan
 22.10-30.10.2011 / Designtide Tokyo (Tokyo/Japan)
 29.10-3.11.2011 / Detour 2011 (Hong Kong/China)
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BlingCrete™ will be on display in the THINK:Material feature exhibit at IIDEX/NeoCon Toronto, Canada on September 22 and 23, 2011. THINK:Material is an interactive exhibit curated by International Materials Consultant Jim Salazar, that showcases innovative materials from across the globe. www.thinkmaterial.ca www.iidexneocon.com

tl.mag discovered the new generation of materials for product development, design and architecture during Material Vision in Frankfurt. Lightness, and its different interpretations, was a recurring theme. tl.mag presents BlingCrete™ as its favourite innovation. www.tlmagazine.be

BlingCrete™ is nominated for the 2012 German Design Award. Only works that are both pioneering and marketable, and indeed have already proved that they are fit for market, are short-listed. The competition aims to identify, present, and reward innovative and international design trends.  

  Exhibition with BlingCrete™ by Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster at the National Glass Centre NGC, Sunderland. 18 March – 10 July 2011 One of the most striking architectural developments over the last 50 years has been the increasing presence of glass façades (…) affecting both our environment and people’s lives. Façade: Through a Glass Darkly...