Visit QbiQ during Material District
With 140 exhibitors, exhibitions with 200 new materials, presentations by 100 leading start-ups & designers and a lecture programme with 60 speakers this year, MaterialDistrict Rotterdam will once again be filled with material innovations. R&D and design professionals will submerge themselves in Rotterdam Ahoy from 12 to 14 March 2019 in an inspiring mix of topical themes, such as circularity, digitalisation, smartness, health and social design. Click here for a free entrance ticket.
International leaders
This year, the organiser MaterialDistrict (previously Materia) has attracted nine internationally renowned ambassadors that represent six sectors and play a major part in the composition of the speakers programme and the selection of promising start-ups and designers. For the Architecture sector this is Ben van Berkel and Filippo Lodi (UNStudio and UNSense), for Interiors design duo Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe (Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe), for Products Anouk Groen (RNA Design), for Textiles & Fabrics Anne Marie Commandeur (Stijlinstituut) and Liesbeth in ’t Hout, for Urban & Landscapes Cees Donkers (former city architect of Eindhoven) and for Print & Sign this is Annemarie Kleve (Houdbaar).
Exhibitions with materials and presentations by start-ups & designers
During the visit to the largest multi-sectoral materials fair in the world, the visitor can enjoy no less than six independent MaterialDistrict exhibitions. In close consultation with the ambassadors, the organisation will design six pavilions on the trade fair floor, where unique exhibition pieces of start-ups & designers will be presented per sector. Palm leather carpet, fashion made of coffee textile, ‘green’ graffiti, thin glass walls by thinglass, denim furniture and communicating facades are just a few examples of exhibition pieces that will broaden the visitor’s imagination. Naturally, MaterialDistrict will be showing the 200 latest materials they scouted this past year; printed roof tiles, a composite material of marble powder and oysters, paving tiles made of burned waste and 197 other innovations can be seen, felt and experienced at the fair in Rotterdam.
Intriguing lecture programme
MaterialDistrict Rotterdam is known for its intriguing lecture programme; in which renowned (inter)national architects, scientists, designers and other experts share the latest developments in the field of materials with the audience. After last years’ success, there will once again be two simultaneous theatre programmes in which a line-up of no less than 60 speakers will be sharing their knowledge and experience with the visitor.
Product launches and novelties of leading manufacturers
A large number of well-known brands will also grasp the opportunity to introduce their latest material innovations to the general public at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam. In total, around 140 leading material manufacturers will show their novelties: the ‘newest of the new’ is therefore literally what the visitor will find during a visit to MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019.
Visits
MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019 takes place from Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 March in Rotterdam Ahoy. For more information and a free entrance ticket, visit Rotterdam.MaterialDistrict.nl.
You can find QbiQ at stand number 130!
Opening times
Tuesday 12 M arch, 10:30 am – 6:30 pm
Wednesday 13 March, 10:30 am – 8:30 pm
Thursday 14 March, 10:30 – 5:30 pm
Media partners
For MaterialDistrict Rotterdam; MaterialDistrict collaborates with several media partners, including professional journals Frame, Textilia, Product, PI and ArchitectuurNL.
About MaterialDistrict
MaterialDistrict is the world’s leading matchmaking platform in the area of innovative materials. MaterialDistricts’ value as a high grade source of inspiration is clear: R&D and design professionals from all industries use our platform to discover material solutions. Daily via MaterialDistrict.com, annually at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam and periodically with the traveling events MaterialDistrict Expo, MaterialDistrict Talks and MaterialDistrict Pop-up.
Spectacular wall systems for Pulse, Delft University of Technology
A new project with a very special contribution of QbiQ was recently finished: the Pulse building at Delft University of Technology. This design by Ector Hoogstad Architecten originated from the university’s need for more education areas with a flexible, uniquely shaped design. The rooms are used for various new forms of education, such as interactive seminars, flipped classrooms and videoconferencing.
This ‘modern activating education’ got its purpose in this entirely climate-neutral building, with a star role for the QbiQ wall systems. For instance, the entrance was provided with a 5.30-metre high glass wall with blue lighting. In the Inspiration Room we provided a 7-metre high glass wall. What’s also special are the extra wide glass walls in which you can still see the building’s metal construction. The details can be found here.
December party at Architecten Showroom Amsterdam!
Architecten Showroom Amsterdam is organising a party. On 11 December there will be a networking event for architects and other construction professionals. As a partner of the Architecten Showroom we are happy to invite you.
The theme of the afternoon is the ambitious project Sluishuis Amsterdam, which will rise up opposite the showroom in the river IJ. The organisation has roped in several key figures to explain the development, design and construction this new architectural landmark for Amsterdam. This will be followed by a debate and drinks.
Register for the December party now. Entrance is free, but the number of places is limited.
QbiQ congratulates winners of the 2018 ARC Awards
The seventh edition of the ARC Awards was presented in the Van Nelle Factory on Thursday 22 November. A company of 450 architects and their clients met up and enjoyed a wonderful dinner. QbiQ is happy to support this initiative! We congratulate the proud winners of the ARC18 Awards.
The prizes award the very best work of the past year in the categories architecture, interior, furniture, detail, innovation and development.
Winnaars van ARC18
ARC18 Architectuur Award: Noord/Zuidlijn Amsterdam by Benthem Crouwel Architects
ARC18 Interieur Award: MFC Doelum in Renkum by NOAHH + Studio Nuy from Noort in collaboration with Abbie Steinhauser
ARC18 Meubel Award: Pauzelandschap by man&paard
ARC18 Detail Award: Cadix Antwerpen by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
ARC18 Innovatie Award: People’s Pavilion – 100% borrowed by bureau SLA in collaboration with Overtreders W
ARC18 Development Award: Kaaspakhuis Gouda by White House Development and Mei architects
ARC18 Jong Talent Award: Tomas Dirrix
ARC18 Oeuvre Award: Adriaan Geuze
Circular interior is the new Standard
A style room which makes you forget that every square centimeter is produced sustainably. The style room is decorated with products from the Dutch Design label Cartoni Design in collaboration with partners who believe that a circular economy is of the utmost importance. The style room has been supplemented with a presentation of residual flows to interior products. You can also see how our suppliers transform residual material into high-quality semi-finished products with which Cartoni Design makes its furniture.
Product Design by:
Ernst Ilias, Wisse Trooster, Sabine van der Ham, Joost Linder & Jeroen Bomers, Plankstaal & Laura van de Wijdeven
Concept & Exhibition Design
Cartoni Design & Wisse Trooster
QbiQ enthusiastic member of Architecten Showroom Amsterdam
Recently, QbiQ became an enthusiastic member of Architecten Showroom Amsterdam. It is the place for the latest trends, innovations and knowledge. More than 20 (inter)national companies are represented. Here you can get advice and sample material. Everything at one location in an inspiring environment.
You are welcome to visit our exhibition; QbiQ will show, among others, a mock-up of the new Route 66 wall. Please make an appointment before your arrival with Marianne van der Sande, who will be happy to speak to you.
Marianne@qbiq.nl
+31 6 136 196 29
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.
