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Yearnings. M. A. Carretero.

educational concerts at the

Auditorium of MAVA.

This written confirmation that I

have already announced in the

phone call that I mentioned

above is necessary as we

document to initiate actions we

deem appropriate to request

the necessary support to make

reconsider the position that our

City Council has adopted in

relation to our program.

Because I am sure that, in the

case of Castillo Grande de San

José de Valderas where the

MAVA is installed, there is an

internal struggle in the

government team of our City

Council to clarify that Alderman

or Councillor can stay with

powers over this inviting space

to devote to other things.

This policy of "scorched earth"

has already begun at the

beginning of 2014 with the

transfer of most of the second

floor of the Grand Castle to the

Community of Madrid for a

private company installing it

there a Family Counseling,

bringing the Museum he lost

much of its exhibition space,

lost his library, lost some

offices and lost two rooms

dedicated to workshops.

Then, at the beginning of last

year 2015, they converted the

room that is located on the

ground floor of the building

where the exhibition of

sculptures made with the

technique of laminated glass in

a space of use and enjoyment

for our seniors was installed,

replacing sculptures by the

appropriate furniture so you

can play a game or can read

the free newspapers that are

distributed in the municipality.

Over time we have found that

the use of this second space

dedicated to our elders is

totally void, since there are

other places throughout our

better equipped and better

located City for the elderly

neighbors can enjoy more

favorable offers leisure.

Faced with this absurd

measure of our Department of

Shows, and as has already

been four months since our last

concert, I miss the activities we

had been doing each month for

scheduling events.

He began our work with the

application of space to the

Department for conducting the

concert presented next month

in the General Register of the

City. I have to say that we were

forced to make an application

for each concert, because "they

meant a lot of work" receive for

various events.

Continued consultation with the

Miguel Angel Colmenero

Foundation program that had

been prepared for that month,

along with some of the

conservatories, to make

relevant advertising through

various cultural and sports

centers, the own City Hall, the

churches Municipality, School

of Music, School of Adults,

People's University of Senior

Centers, the information panel

of MAVA, our website and

Facebook, and the realization

of the playbill to deliver to

concert goers.

Also, being educational

concerts, also it had to prepare

the information to be

transmitted before the start of

the concert itself on the

characteristics of the works,

curriculum interpreters and any

other relevant information, as

was the case of individual

chapters on the history of

classical music.

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28925 ALCORCÓN.28925 ALCORCÓN.

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Monthly Newsletter

According to the Dictionary

dela Royal Spanish Academy

of Language, "longing" is

remembered with regret the

absence, denial or loss of

someone or something dear.

This feeling is what comes out

in my brain it impossible to

continue programming activity

"Concerts in the MAVA" that

our association has been

developing since Feb. 22,

2013.

Three years have already

served since that day in which

the tenor David Romero

Luengo inaugurated the

series of "Concerts in the

MAVA".

After it is scheduled over 24

regular concerts, a cycle of six

piano concerts and another

cycle of Spanish guitar

consists of five concerts.

As I reported in the editorial of

the Bulletin last month, the

Department of Entertainment

of our municipality informed

me by telephone on 19

January that we could no

longer continue programming

these concerts in the

Auditorium of MAVA because

this space was reserved for

conducting civil weddings.

I'm still waiting for the

Department confirm to me in

writing the reason or reasons

given for that we can not

continue programming our

Petr Novotny

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C O N T E N I D O :

Piece of the month 3

Established artists 4

Young artists 4

Registration in the RNA 5

David Magan Prize 6

Ouka Leele in La Granja 7

Activities Museums 8

Activities on the MAVA 11

The Mediterranean 12

Restoration of stained glas 13

Glass in Harrachov 15

Collection plate 16

Roman glass in Museums 17

News 18

Culture 2016 18

Good bye, José Antonio 19

Netherlands generates 19

The glass in museums 20

Recycling 21

Cultural visits 22

Culture 2016 program 22

Stained Mountain 23

Other trends 24

Interview with David Levy 25

HAS leader in Vietnam 27

The Ladies of Cerdanyola 28

Integrating graphene 29

How do 30

5D data recording 31

New window Barceló 32

The myth of Cinderella 33

Efficient solar sphere 34

High Glass 35

Swarovski Awards 36

Friends School of Glass 37

Sevilla Tower 38

Meet Orfeo Quagliata 39

Board Of Directors 40

Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LII) MAC. Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LII) MAC. Important issue: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (LII) MAC.

Intellectual

Property Law

BOOK IV

The scope of the Act

Article 164

Performers

....

3. In any case, national artists from other countries shall enjoy the protection afforded under international conventions and treaties to which Spain is party and be treated as equivalent to the Spanish artists when they should submit to the respective country nationals .

4. The terms of protection provided shall also apply to the owners mentioned who

are not nationals of the European Union provided they have guaranteed their protection in Spain by an international convention.

The term of protection shall expire on the date specified in the country of nationality of the holder without, in any case, the length does not exceed the established in the article mentioned.

Article 165

Producers, makers of ordinary photographs and editors

1. Producers, the makers of ordinary photographs and the publishers of the works mentioned will be protected under this Act in the following cases:

a) When are Spanish citizens or companies domiciled in Spain, and they are citizens of another European Union Member State or companies domiciled in another Member state of the European Union.

b) When they are nationals of third countries and published in Spain for the first time or within the following which have been in another country works mentioned thirty days.

However, the Government may restrict the scope of this principle, in the case of nationals of States not sufficiently protect the works or publications of Spaniards in comparable circumstances.

U R G E N T N E W SU R G E N T N E W SU R G E N T N E W S

New gallery Javier Gómez.

www.amigosmava.org

Hello friends, I am pleased to share with you my new gallery Timeless: Timeless groups galleries: Minerva Gallery in Malmo and Gallery new Form in Trelleborg, Gdynia Timeless, Timeless Bialystok, Timeless Gallery Gallery Tiemless Miami and Marbella.

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No response from the Department of Culture.No response from the Department of Culture.No response from the Department of Culture.

17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the

permanent collection of MAVA.

11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on

glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of

Science.

11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the

Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.

Will present my work and all the galleries of the group, and you can see my works in the gallery of Marbella. And in April in Sweden. I leave a Web link in the group.

Best regards,

Javier.

SPECIAL INTEREST:

Part of the month

Registration in the RNA

Award Magan

Ouka Leele in La Granja

Activities on the MAVA

News

Our activities

Glass recycling

How does

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Piece of the month. Markku Salo.

Markku Salo (Nokia

1954) is one of the artists

and designers currently

leading glass.

He was a pupil of the

great master Oiva Toikka

and its technical and

creative genius, reflected

in the boldness of its

shapes and colors, it has

made many duties

specified as its artistic

heir.

Heads the group of glass

artists of his generation,

dedicating its activity both

in the design of functional

objects as

experimentation and the

search for new artistic

expressions.

This desire for

experimentation has led

to the creation of works of

art and design objects

characterized by their

ideal functionality and

simple beauty.

Salo started his career in

the world of design in

1983 and has since

worked for Finnish firms

most emblematic design,

as Hackman, Iittala or

Aarikka.

Since 1971 he has

participated in very

numerous joint and solo

exhibitions in some of the

galleries and museums

more representative

glass as the Glass

Museum of Finland, the

Gallery Creszenzo &

Viesti in Rome, Italy, Blas

Gallery & Knåda in

Stockholm on

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in

Denmark, the Mokkumto

Gallery in Seoul and the

National Glass Centre of

La Granja.

He has won several

national awards and

scholarships, including

the Finnish State Prize for

applied and industrial

arts, and international,

including the Georg

Jensen Prize Nordic

design are highlighted.

His works are in major

museums around the

world, including the

Corning Museum of Glass

in New York, the Victoria

& Albert Museum in

London and the National

Museum in Stockholm.

On the occasion of

Europe Week 2009

presented several of his

works in the MAVA.

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Established artists. Petr Novotny.

He attends lectures and symposia on glass worldwide.

He teaches regularly at summer glass sessions and workshops in Glass Furnace, Turkey and Pilchuck Glass School in the USA

Today it is with Libor Fafala, co-owner and director of Ajeto Glassworks, Lindava in the Czech Republic.

Emerging artists. Ondrej Novotny.

www.amigosmava.org

Petr Novotny was born in the Czech Republic in 1952.

He studied glass manufacturing and technology being an apprentice in the Glass Centre in Novy Bor and later continued his studies at the Industrial High School in that city.

In 1983 he was awarded a Master of Fine Arts and glass crafts.

As one of the first in the former Czechoslovakia, he began his own studio for manufacturing replicas of ancient glass.

He works for many leading artists and designers in the world, including: René Roubicek, Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Edward Leibovitz, Willem Heesen and others.

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trade of glass.

After completing his study (2004), he

traveled from America and Europe to

gain experience and develop their

skills.

In 2010, Ondrej ended up working

as a teaching assistant of Martin

Janecký, which has influenced and

completely changed his way of

looking at the glass as a medium of

communication in general.

Recently, he has been working with

various artists and designers in the

Netherlands and the Czech

Republic.

Ondrej has a very different concept

of aesthetics.

Vivid colors, symmetry and balance

are part of its approach to the glass.

Ondrej Novotny is the youngest son

of the internationally renowned

artist Petr Novotny, who was one of

the pioneers of studio-glass

movement in the eighties.

Ondrej glassmaking began at the

age of fourteen, he finally decided

to study professionally at school

glass glass Novy Bor and began

working as an apprentice in the

Our web

Our web

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Registration in the RNA.

On January 19 the official registration of our Association and of its Statutes was held in the National Register of Associations (RNA) of the Ministry of Interior.

As indicated in the resolution of the RNA, the inscription was made in Group 1, Section 1, with the national number 609,044.

Until then, and since its founding, both our Association and its statutes had been enrolled in the Register of Associations of the Community of Madrid.

In ancient statutes mention that the scope of our association was limited to the Community of Madrid was made.

With the appointment of the current Board at the Annual General Assembly held on February 4, 2007, intended to expand the scope of our Association at the state level it had, so we had to make a redrafting of our Statutes .

On February 24, 2013 was sent to members by email convening for Extraordinary General Meeting on 9 March following as a single point on the agenda the amendment to the Statutes included. Also, a file that notice with the new wording of the Statutes is attached.

the new wording of the statutes was approved at the Extraordinary General Assembly of that on 9 March and the

procedures for registration began.

On September 30, 2013 request of the Community of Madrid the registration of new statutes in the Register of Associations and in its letter dated March 3, 2015 we requested the correction of the text of one of the items, sending a certificate on the composition of the Board and that, since the new scope was national, our permission to submit all documentation to RNA Interior Ministry.

This request was duly answered through our written on the 18th of next March.

On August 18 they returned us to make the same request than we did on March 3, so we got on the phone with the Area Associations to inform them of duplicity, that had already responded to its earlier request and requesting that remitiesen all documentation to RNA.

On 8 October we received a request from RNA acknowledging receipt of the documentation sent by the Community of Madrid and asking us to aportásemos additional documentation, documentation sent them on 28 November and justifying the delay by the unsuccessful management in the location of the different members of the previous Board.

As expected in the case of the administration, we had to pay

fees to the Community of Madrid and the Ministry of Interior for registration applications.

Since it is not acceptable that the Community of Madrid would perceive rates for services that had not dated November 30 request the return of these fees until the date of publication of this Newsletter still remain waiting for their response to respect.

The registration of the new statutes, as you can tell, has been sick laborious, but in the end we achieved such registration and our Association on the National Register of Associations of the Interior Ministry.

What advantages does the registration of the association in RNA?

The registration of an association in the RNA carries several benefits:

partners, in terms of liability,

since registration involves the separation between the assets of the association and heritage partners (art. 15 Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, regulating the right of association)

and the rest of society,

because enrollment is a guarantee that the aims of the association are lawful and democratic functioning.

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David Magan Prize.

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The sculptor and member

of our David Magan

Association (Madrid,

1979), with his work

'Cube XIII', has won the

Second Prize NH

Collection of

Contemporary Art ARCO

2016, coordinated by

Juan Alfaro.

Magan's work is a three-

dimensional color

composition methacrylate

and stainless steel that

will be exposed during

the fair ARCOmadrid

2016 and later will be

incorporated into the

private collection of NH

Hotel Group in the

Eurobuilding hotel.

The jury responsible for

selecting the winning

artist has been formed by

international collectors

David Grebler

(Switzerland), Judko

Rosenstock (Costa Rica),

Marta Creus (Spain), Dan

Desmond and Robert

Galstian (USA), Simon

Parra (Ecuador ), Solita

Mishan (Colombia),

Frances Reynolds

(Argentina), Jimmy Belilty

(Venezuela) and Eugenio

Re Rebaudengo (Italy).

color

compartmentalization

Trained at the School of

Arts and Crafts in Madrid,

where he specialized in

woodworking and iron,

Magan soon showed a

strong interest in glass.

Result of deepening in

this area was the

development of a

personal technique in

which fuses the color

compartmentalization by

pieces of flat glass

feature window and a

spatial conception

tradition inherited both

sculptural and

architectural procedures.

Thus, their works become

a continuous process of

experimentation with

developments that light

and color are drawing in

their dialogue with space.

Open or closed, dynamic

or static, each of its parts

is a complex game where

the viewer is confronted

with various possibilities:

either the activity and

contemplative enjoyment

linked to the paintings, or

the rotation and tensions

required by dimensional

arts.

From these pages we

send to David our

warmest congratulations

and congratulations.

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Ouka Leele in La Granja.

Madrid artist designs a work glassmakers who make the CNV for the exhibition Think Glass' Alcorcón MAVA.

For Barbara Allende Gil de Biedma (the real name of Ouka Leele) photography and painting that transforms images are their usual environment, and sometimes sculpture but had never used the glass to express themselves.

Until he was asked to participate in the exhibition 'Think Glass' Art Museum of Alcorcon Glass (MAVA), which later, in May, will travel to the Museum of Glass in La Granja.

"It is an incredible opportunity for me because I worked in sculpture, but I've never done things in glass, a fascinating material because it provides volume and light."

Barbara hopes to define the end result. The initial idea, embodied in the sketches that have drawn, "is the maturity that has fallen," and the first prototypes made by the glassmakers of the Foundation CNV displayed as colored glass fruits.

They are "a fig that has fallen to the ground, which is already open and has mold and other still full of life, green transparent glass with the feeling that still hangs from the tree and a drop of nectar. Is the transition from life, "he explains enthusiastically to the new experience.

Because he likes to "break

barriers and I can not sort that only take pictures; I like to do a bit of everything. "

The process is slow. Diego Rodriguez, master glassmaker, has worked with Barbara to choose colors and shapes to get to an idea that may have an unexpected ending. "Just as we find something else, sometimes finding out the error," warns the artist.

The teacher uses techniques Venetian color. Once molten material, a process that begins at 450 degrees and ends at 1200, is blowing with cane steel ball glass red to go shaping, turning, marking the grooves of the fig with grater metal, making longer with an assistant who goes down to a small pit to give adequate volume and length to the neck of the fruit ...

Step by Step

Barbara observes, suggests some aspect and records the whole process with the phone.

Diego will explain you every step, "now what I need is to give volume because we want a pretty big piece," he warns after adding several balls, up to four colors in one piece.

Thus a fig glass after another, each with a shape and a predominant color according to the pigment that gives the particular metal oxide, which is "an added difficulty because each color has a different plasticity".

When you have the desired shape and volume, each element of the sculpture (about ten kilos of weight) passes furnace cooled to 450 degrees for the temperature to go down slowly, until seven hours later, is cool and ready for cutting and polishing of the surface.

Once completed and before traveling to Alcorcon, sculpture of several pieces will be protected in a foam injection mold before final packaging.

Ouka Leele enjoy the process of creation, this time with Diego Rodriguez and other glassmakers of the CNV Foundation.

It has been demanding with colors and as the molded parts progresses, reaffirms its view that this work "is a privilege."

And he is happy with the proposal of the MAVA and for having performed in Segovia, "where I have known the woods and nature," in part a source of inspiration for this work, she says, "and I will play with time which means, because until the finish we do not know what will be. "

This 'life transition' Ouka Lele will be exhibited at the MAVA Alcorcon since March 2 with the work in glass artists like Carmen Calvo, Maria Angeles San Jose, video artist Luis Patino, Carmen Algara, Manuel Bouzo or Aníbal Merlo.

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Activities Museums I.

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Activities Museums II.

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Activities Museums III.

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Activities on the MAVA. "Think of glass."

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The Valencian artist Carmen Calvo was the guest artist at Art Madrid'16, 11th edition of the contemporary art fair held from 24 to 28 February at the Crystal Gallery Centro Centro Cibeles.

On Friday 26 February at 19: 00h a conversation between the artist and four outstanding art professionals and journalism was held - Susana Blas, contemporary art historian specializing in gender issues; Rosa Perez, director of Fluid Rosa Radio 3; Angela Sanz, chief editor of Discover Art and Semíramis González, curator of independent art - with which he talked about his life, his work, and the visibility of women in the art sector, within the framework of the parallel program #ARTEYGENERO .

Carmen Calvo was also the author of the posters of the fair.

About Ouka Lele we referred on page 7 of this Bulletin.

Juan Ugalde (Bilbao, 1958) is a Spanish figurative painter of pop trend.

Since the 1990s his work is characterized by the fusion between painting and photography.

But it was in the mid-eighties when it was unveiled with abstract expressionist paintings.

Their original sources of inspiration are comics Spanish, hieroglyphic, landscapes kitsch, jokes and drawings with computer.

The sculptural work of Esther Pizarro (Madrid, 1967) has been characterized by the motivation of

the artist fascinated with the urban fabric of cities.

A fabric whose plot is threaded past and present, urban rationality and sentimental traces of lived or live, existence and project.

Their conceptions were also carried on several occasions the public space.

Manuel Bouzo (El Puente, Ourense, 1946) draws on the vital memories and aesthetic.

The first, which can be glimpsed as influences, combined Russian Constructivism and Surrealism, while the latter, speaking of experience, form a landscape of objects in which both formal poetic valuation as tools that dynamically activate memories claimed.

The messages of these paintings and objects may overlap in some compositions or having own lives.

In the work of Angeles San Jose (Madrid, 1961) it has renounced painting color and essentially reaffirmed as art space as a means to create awareness and govern the organization of pictorial space. that is your challenge.

However, his is not a mock space, "theatrical", "perspective" or derivative of tradition to represent the feeling of depth and atmosférica- -linear following the optical-mathematical principles perpetuated since the Renaissance classicism and baroque art. On the contrary, the space of the painting "made" graphite-that is, ore spread on the support in successive sweeps lead,

as well as some brief rhythmic strokes and touches like acentos- of oil, is a space flat and purely plastic: a consistent way in the same space that your stuff will build it and doing this.

Aníbal Merlo (Buenos Aires, 1949) is a poet of matter that handles concepts.

A concerns he recognized, that is, the landscape, the reality-unreality and tension between space and time axis should be added one that may be the synthesis of all of them, something like the imaginary possession of uninhabitable landscape by the I.

Thus, the strange photographs of Merlo, who both refer to the prehistory of this technique as the Surrealist practice and that use methods of digital processing, explore and walk metaphysical places that suggest known but strange places and, above all, the man who has visited and kept in her eyes.

Lois Patiño (Vigo, 1983) combined his studies of psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with Tai film school.

He continued his training film NYFA New York and Barcelona, where the Master of Creative Documentary done at the University Pompeu Fabra.

He has taken courses of video at the Universität der Kunst in Berlin and workshops with artists and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, James Benning, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, José Luis Guerin and Daniel Canogar.

Carmen Algara (Madrid, 1948) is a self-taught artist with technical training in some workshops.

He debuted relatively late in the art world, but with a fairly clear idea of what he intended to do, both in the use of materials, always austere and concepts to stream.

Erick Miraval was born in Huanuco - Peru in 1982.

After living seven years in the Peruvian Amazon (Pucallpa) he moved to Lima where at age 16 he began to develop in competitions and awards.

Artist living in Madrid, working with plastics and multidisciplinary means.

Make devices referred to painting; his work as a cartoonist, has led him to consider matters relating to the environment, his book is his best presentation field.

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La Mediterránea in Frankfurt.

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Restoration of stained glass windows in Segovia (I).

They are located in high,

inaccessible and difficult to reach

places. But they are so important

that all those who contemplate it

are amazed. Are the windows of

the Cathedral of Segovia, a set of

glass art is more important than in

Europe because of its excellent

quality and scarcity.

The Lady of the Cathedrals ornate

stained glass windows from 1539,

which gradually have lost its

original luster for various reasons,

such as inclement weather or by

damage caused by facts as

prominent as the fire that took the

tower of the Cathedral in the

century XVII, which it damaged the

south at the foot of the ship.

Wind is one of the great enemies of

these works of art glass. One of the

greatest damage produced them a

gale in 1916 which caused them to

have to make new the chancel.

A century after the great incident,

the concern about being in perfect

condition these treasures is

paramount to the Cathedral

Chapter. So its leaders hired in

2009 to the company 'Vetraria

Muñoz de Pablos', the segoviano

Carlos Muñoz de Pablos, dedicated

to the creation, restoration and

conservation of artistic stained

glass.

The work is usually performed five

people, including three children of

stained glass artist, Alfonso, Pablo

and Rodrigo and stained glass

artist himself, who was awarded the

prize Castilla y León of Arts 2005

found.

Seven years in which they have

already managed to restore 47

windows of the 113 planned,

following a master plan that began

in May 2009 and is composed of

seven different phases. Work could

end in 2018, although "could be

extended a couple of years"

because "the problem is we do not

know what you are getting," as

recognized Alfonso and Pablo

Muñoz brothers.

The rush here are not good for a

vast and multidisciplinary work that

requires applying various

techniques to remove, restore and

replace the windows in the huge

gaps.

For now, the restaurateurs are

satisfied with the work done

because "nobody says anything

and is a sign that is good."

In his opinion, the work performed

involves "more than half" of all

because so far have ended "the

most difficult".

Not all the windows were bad,

some were well preserved and

others had visible damage, even

with holes and missing elements

with a precision and a critical study

have managed to return all its

splendor to that required it.

"The historical windows need a

series of operations that meet the

specific requirements posed by

contemporary restoration. That is,

there is a deep understanding of

the work involved, the maximum

reversibility of all operations to

ensure that none of them generate

any deterioration, that all

contributions are routed to a better

understanding of the work without

distorting their reading and above

all, that the primary objective is the

best preservation of this heritage. "

When they settled in the sixteenth

century, the windows had three

basic functions: enclosure to isolate

the inside from the outside; Plastic

support with an image for people who

could not read could understand the

sacred message of the Old and New

Testaments and thirdly, as a light

filter, to create an environment for

centuries, because "the light

generating color changes because

the goal is to create an environment

of transcendence, "says Alfonso

Muñoz.

Segovia Cathedral was the last

Gothic style built in Spain and the

use of light held was known very well

to project the vaults or create

"hottest" illuminations.

However, over the years and the

arrival of new styles such as Baroque

caused five windows were removed

in order to have "a clean white light",

something that clashes today in

certain points for the lighting

imbalance.

There Muñoz de Pablos and their

children have another important

challenge: make a contemporary

glazed, but "seeking compromise" to

achieve a balance between the

Renaissance and Gothic.

In fact, at the foot of the ship, the

Italian Francisco Sabatini in the

eighteenth century removed from its

location the largest showcase of all:

Judgment. A hole three meters wide

and six meters high which is now

blank, but these professionals are

hoping to install later this year.

The vitralistas know which window

was placed in each window factory

thanks to the file of the Cathedral, a

fundamental document for this work

which originated in 1540, when it

became a commission to plan

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Specifically, at the foot of the ship

are triptychs, which tell the story of

Christ, the cruise is dedicated to the

life of the Virgin and girola public

life of Christ. In the oculus you can

be seen angels musicians.

In addition, these experts may also

return its splendor windows that are

now an amalgam of colors because

they are positioned no sense, as a

kind of collage, what they call "a

salad" as the central window of the

triptych is over the organ.

The workshop

The work of these restaurateurs

began by the north because they

were those that had suffered least,

which has allowed them to

"discover the secrets and lattices

then undertake the work more

complicated," explained the Muñoz

brothers.

In fact, their daily lives must have

exquisite precision. First to remove

it from its location without suffering

any harm to what they have to walk

on many occasions by the very roof

of the Cathedral and lower,

modules, through the narrow spiral

staircases Seo Segovia.

Then, the piece is taken to the

workshop where they continue to

possess different processes to

clean the joint. For best results,

perform research on materials, in

addition to employing numerous,

complementary, analytical

techniques such as Raman

esprectoscopia, which identifies the

structure of the compounds forming

materials without taking sample,

even when they are poorly

crystalline .

A technique that have been

pioneers, such as cleaning with a

wet system that "is safe and unique

in the world" and which have been

investigating 15 years, because

"the restoration of stained glass is a

field that is not studied and is

known as "point.

The restorers also respect the

historic smithy the window,

keyways and shields, including

leaded somewhere missing or in

poor condition, for which they use a

specific lead buying in the

Netherlands, that "it is the best in

the world, because everything we

do with quality materials. "

Once finished, the restoration team

back into place, for what often

invest five days. Furthermore, they

use the original system anchored to

the stone cathedral with a specific

resin anchors, as long as weather

conditions permit.

Once restored, these professionals

continue to protect the because

"one of the causes of the

deterioration is more air, exerting a

force of 70 kilos per square meter,

or impacts," they explain.

So, they install a glass laminate

that "not broken" to avoid such

damage. Also, they leave an

isothermal chamber between the

glass and the glass that generates

an air stream that prevents

condensation so that "if you avoid

condensation, no chemical

deterioration."

In addition, everything they do is

well documented in a "very

comprehensive" report, which

includes both a historical and

aesthetic study, among other

things.

In the stained glass that make any

reintegration they seek to be "very

mimetic" that can only be appreciated

by experts, but with calibers that are

physically marked with a laser from

the back, imperceptible to the naked

eye.

Permanent exhibition

Since its inception, the restorers

were clear that the segovianos had to

admire the enormous work done

closely. Therefore, the Chapel of St.

Gregory welcomes a piece to

appreciate in detail the delicate and

complex realization of a window.

The first one was exposed was the

Deposition of the XVI century,

attributed to Pierres Pierres of

Holland and glassmakers Chiberri in

1547. Today, you can see the

triptych form up for 'The Christ with

the Cross',' The sacrifice of Isaac

'and' Naomi talking to women '. It is a

set of new creation that is

accompanied by drawings, cartoons

and documentation necessary to

achieve them. In addition, the

exhibition is completed with several

explanatory panels developed work,

the history of the Cathedral and the

iconographic program of restoration.

The ultimate goal of the restoration of

all windows is that from inside the

cathedral, not notice anything and

there is a harmony, which seems that

vitralistas are getting. So far, only a

scaffold is observed in the heights of

Seo that use these professionals.

What is clear is that this intervention

is being made, in his opinion, that

"will not have to intervene in a long

time."

A job that everyone can enjoy when

completed this set, returning back to

the Cathedral its own light.

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Glass in Harrachov.

The Czech Republic is a traditional manufacturer of glass products.

The window company of the town of Harrachov, in northern Bohemia, is the oldest in the country that is still working and specializing in handmade items.

80% of production of Harrachov glass factory is for export.

Its cups, vases, glass shelves, chandeliers and other items, reach markets about 30 countries worldwide.

In recent years the biggest orders are markets in the United States and China.

While in the United States they are interested in simple glass products, but larger, for

example cups or vases uncut without decorations, in China prefer a more varied and assorted decorative details.

The factory management in China prefer to send these items, since they are difficult to imitate, and said František Novosad, who owns the glass company Harrachov.

František Novosad admits that, precisely for fear that the Chinese do not try to imitate their products, hesitant in the beginning establish business contacts with that country, but now the business is going well.

In the case of products for the Chinese market glassmakers can demonstrate their skills and experience and their work is much appreciated and well

paid in that country, said Novosad.

In the Czech Republic Harrachov glass products they are sold exclusively at the factory and mostly foreign tourists buy them.

Four years ago the factory commemorated the 300th anniversary of its existence.

Unlike other companies, it managed to overcome without further damage the economic crisis thanks to its production opened to tourists.

15 years ago the owner of the glassworks in Harrachov also opened a small brewery and later a beer spa baths, which attracts many tourists to the place in the country and abroad.

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Rafael Sáiz, Burgos child

photographer Cirilo Moreno

Saiz, a legacy to the city of

Burgos a collection of glass

plates, old negatives from

the early twentieth century, if

not for the work of his father

not therefore have less

historical value and artistic.

This is a collection that Saiz

found, almost by chance,

between the material retains

its progenitor.

They are an unknown author,

are older that could range

between 80 and 100 years,

and represent primarily

altarpieces and altars,

although there are also about

landscapes or groups of

people.

"They're not my father and I

do not know how they got

into the hands of my father,"

acknowledged Saiz, but

suspects that the great

Cyril's got someone who

intended to get rid of them.

And it is that the negatives

are "sacred" in Burgos family

Collection of glass plates.

of altars, explained

photographer, which leads us

to believe that the

photographs would be

professional assignments.

400,000 negative

The assignment of these

glass plates is considered, at

least from the City, as the

beginning of the arrival of

Moreno Saiz legacy of the

Municipal Archives.

Milagros Moratinos has

reminded his son would love

to keep the photographer's

work, which does not rule out

self Rafael Saiz.

"Yes I would like to have your

site on the File," he

acknowledged.

However, we are talking

about more than 400,000

negatives, the oldest in the

early '40s, and touch one to

one study.

In addition, Saiz recalled

that, not the legal term of 100

years have passed, falls on

them data protection.

photographer, so, as it did at

the time his father, Rafael

Saiz has chosen to protect

these parts.

In this case, cediéndolas the

Municipal Archives, which

will create a special fund

under the title Cirilo Moreno

Saiz, and begin work on the

material: cleaning, catering,

dating, classification and

digitization.

Archive director, Milagros

Moratinos, explained that

this is an "ambitious" project.

It will take time and even

may require external

expertise, since the

identification and dating of

the images is not exactly

simple.

Rafael Saiz estimated that

the plates can be the

beginning of 1900, by the

type of elements shown

(there is even a balloon over

the city).

In addition, "there are many

retablos" and some sketches

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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XIV).

Eduardo Alonso Cereza

Another plaque appeared in

Hama, level II (Syria).

These objects are almost all

the same type, in some

cases it may come from the

same mold, and the

chronological field running

from the sixteenth century to

the thirteenth century B.C.

This could involve a short

time as articles of

manufacture, but would

enjoy a long period of use.

Home plate was in all

probability Syrian or a

nearby region.

The importance of this fact

possessed Syrian or Syrian-

Mesopotamian glass from

the sixteenth century B.C.

follows and irradiation Asia

Minor and the eastern

Mediterranean in a

chronological period from

the sixteenth to the

thirteenth century B.C.

It also carries a significant

trade in this geographical

area where the molded glass

plate would be another

example, or alternatively

could think of a shift in

Syrian-Mesopotamian

artisans in Asia Minor and

the Eastern Mediterranean.

Religion in the ancient world

envelops everything,

including the arts and crafts.

The molded glass plate

representing the goddess of

fertility is an example of the

influence of religion in the

glass, but not an isolated

incident, so it will be the

same with the Egyptian and

Roman glass.

Which appears on these

plates and originates in Syria

or the Syrian-Mesopotamian

region, it serves to prove the

antiquity of this fact.

Egyptian craftsmen also had

to face the lack of raw

materials such as wood, stone

and metals.

As was the case in

Mesopotamia they were

obtained through attacks,

raids or business

relationships; An example of

this is the lapis lazuli, so

abundant in Egyptian jewelry,

which was thought that came

through Byblos, but the more

prominent for its production

was in Afghanistan today.

Natron or sodium carbonate is

used in soap factories, glass

and dyes are obtained, as well

as salt, carpets and medicinal

plants, trade with the oasis

etc.

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N O T I C I A S (I).

Culture 2016.

Chartres, the Bible glass.

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and writer Javier Sierra, President of the National Association of Art Critics, Tomás Paredes, Alma Branches, Director of the Fiart Foundation ( International Arts Fund) and Alberto Cornejo Alcaraz, Director of Art Madrid.

The exhibition, which has remained open until February 29, comprises a total of 66 works (42 paintings and 24 sculptures) among which is the winning work this year, and the winner was announced on the same opening ceremony.

Last February we visited the Casa de Vacas in Madrid's Retiro Park Cultural Center to see the exhibition of selected in the 51st Queen Sofia Prize for Painting and Sculpture, organized by the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors works.

The exhibition is an excellent proposal of the best Spanish artists, some highlights and other novel, which coincides with the presence in Madrid of international public important occasion of ARCO and has the

support of specialized Jury gathered for this important prize, consisting of José Gabriel Astudillo Lopez, President of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors, Maria Dolores Barreda Pérez, General Secretary of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors, Antonio Vargas, Google, painter, sculptor and engraver Rafael Canogar, painter Eduardo Naranjo the painter, sculptor and artist multidisciplinary Alejandro Aguilar Soria, author of the visual image of the Prize, the journalist

mysteries.

On one side of the

cathedral, the old house

has been converted into

Tithe Centre du Vitrail,

which is both museum

restoration workshop,

study center and

exhibition hall of glass

artists.

The upper part (where the

bishop stored grain) has

been rebuilt, while the

cellar (where the wine

was collected) retains its

Romanesque vaults. The Gothic cathedral, one of

the most beautiful in the world,

is located in the upper part of

the city.

Bright and dark at once, full of

stained glass and hidden

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N O T I C I A S (II).

Goodbye, Jose Antonio.

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Netherlands generates solar energy.

municipality of Quintanas

de Valdelucio , as

reported by sources of

emergency services.

The two cars have

collided for reasons that

have not been clarified

and in one of the vehicles

have been trapped two

people, who have been

trasladas the University

of Burgos hospital in

serious condition.

Apparently, one of the

wounded woman is the

director of the Museum of

Altamira.

The operating room 112

moved the notice of the

accident to the Civil

Guard Traffic, firefighters

The director of the

Museum of Altamira, José

Antonio Lasheras, died

last February 27 in an

accident when he collided

frontally the vehicle he

was traveling with another

tourism in the N-627 road,

at the height of Burgos

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of the City of Burgos,

firefighters Council of

Palencia and the public

health service, the Sacyl,

who sent the place a UVI

one basic life support

ambulance and doctor at

the health center of

Aguilar de Campo.

In the accident, the

doctors of Sacyl

confirmed the death of

Jose Antonio Lasheras

and attended and

transported the injured to

Care Complex of Burgos.

Lasheras (Barcelona,

1956) directed the

Museum of Altamira since

1991.

Rest in peace.

I wish we could see these developments in our country.

The first street in the world capable of converting sunlight into energy was officially opened to traffic in the Netherlands.

What if covered with solar panels highways ?, an interesting idea, it

is a reality in the Netherlands and that could help reduce dependence on oil pollution that causes climate change and global warming.

It's actually a bike lane 70.1 meters long in the town of Krommenie.

Lane called "SolaRoad" is formed

by concrete modules of 2.5 x 3.5 meters, solar panels coated slip tempered glass to prevent accidents.

Bicycles and electric vehicles could one day recharge your batteries directly on roads or bicycle lanes.

Since it began operating a few days ago, the track has produced 140 kilowatts per hour, the equivalent of 140 washing cycles.

By the time the electricity injected into the grid but in the future could be used to illuminate the street.

Holland has a lot of ambition in the field of renewable energy.

With about 17 million people, the bicycle is a very popular transport system.

The government's goal is to triple the share of renewable energy in overall energy consumption by 2020.

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The glass in Museums: Kunstpalast.

The Museum Kunstpalast (German: Museum Kunst Palast) is an art museum in Dusseldorf which houses a collection ranging from classical antiquity to the present: paintings, sculptures, a graphic collection of 70,000 drawings, photographs and prints , collection of applied arts and the Hentrich museum has an important collection of glass works.

The complex has an area of 5,000 sqm and 4,000 sqm permanent exhibition for temporary exhibitions besides art library, theater Robert Schumann with 800 seats and Restoration Institute.

The museum has its antecedents in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, a typical communal art collection in Germany.

The first exhibitions were in charge of the popular regents Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici and some citizens of Düsseldorf rich.

The number of exhibits was expanded in the nineteenth century with the collection of Lambert Krahe, formerly a collection of educational purposes Düsseldorf Kunstakademie [Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf].

The Düsseldorfer Gallerieverein, founded in the

nineteenth century, collected many drawings of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule later ceded to this collection.

The Kunstmuseum [Museum of Art], in its current form, was opened in 1913 to expose the Municipal Art Collection.

The current building.

The Ehrenhof building complex was built in 1925 for the exhibition "Gesolei (abbreviation of the German, Gesundheitspflege, soziale und Fürsorge Leibesübungen [health, social care and sport"].

Construction plans for the building architect Wilhelm Kreis.

Communal art collections, works in the Museum of Applied Arts (which had been founded in 1883) and the Ceramic Collection Hetjens Hetjens-Museum moved to the building Ehrenhof in 1928.

In 1932 he added the collection of the Art Academy, which was refounded in 1819 and had a thirty paintings from the private collection that the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm founded in 1710.

Most of the works of the original collection had become property of the Bavarian royal family and had been transferred in 1805 to Munich finally staying at the Alte Pinakothek.

After World War II, especially in the early 1960s, the collection was expanded with contributions from donations or permanent cessions of various collections: Hentrich and Barlach-Heuer, Giradet, Binder, Schwartz and Koch.

In 1979 the collections were scattered throughout the city for the restoration and extension of the building which reopened in May 1985.

A fire in 1993 forced to close the museum until next year.

In 2001 the Museum of Art and the neighboring Palace of Art formed a foundation (in a public-private partnership) entitled: "Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast" [Museum Kunstpalast].

In the same complex of buildings, also it based the NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft [Forum for culture and economy of North Rhine-Westphalia].

In this collection you can also find Hentrich glass collection, with its more than 3,000 pieces, it is one of the largest in Europe.

Among the most important elements of this collection are the glass art deco French artist Maurice Marinot, plus medieval glassware Merovingian era (584-641 BC.) To the years of the Renaissance.

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Recycling. Cement cullet.

A "green" variety of hydraulic

cement moisture resistant wing,

which is based on glass

recycling urban waste, was

developed by a team of

CINVESTAV (Cinvestav) Saltillo

(Mexico) unit.

Recycle glass as cement is

"logistically easier and more

beneficial for the environment

than do it through the industry

itself that material," said

researcher Jose Ivan Escalante

Garcia.

He explained that this is an

alternative to Portland cement,

for its excellent combination of

properties, is the most widely

used in the construction industry;

one kilogram of CO2 for each

identical product number:

however, in production large

amounts of carbon dioxide are

released to the atmosphere.

Where appropriate, this group of

researchers used all kinds glass

is washed, dried, crushed and

ground before being combined

with limestone, an abundant

mineral and very low cost. Then

the obtained mixture activated

with a solution of alkali

compounds.

"By subjecting cullet to a

chemical activation with alkaline

compounds will We led a series

of reactions leading to the

solidification of what was initially

a similar paste which form

Portland cement mixing with

water" explained.

"This paste hardens and

develops finally excellent

mechanical properties that make

appropriate cement to produce

concrete for various

applications".

The mechanical properties such

as compressive strength, were

optimized in the laboratory with

the help of statistical methods to

complete the process without

having to perform hundreds of

assays.

"We look appropriate for that

cement to develop the best

mechanical and chemical

properties and is resistant to

moisture conditions," he added

the scientist, PhD specializing in

ceramics from the University of

Sheffield, England.

With those statistics tools and

process described above,

Escalante Garcia and his

collaborators managed to

cement that can be considered

ecological for two reasons:

besides contributing to recycle

glass in its production emits less

carbon dioxide into the

atmosphere compared with the

conventional Portland.

Furthermore, the reduction of

emissions of carbon dioxide of

this new ecological cement

compared to Portland cement

production is determined.

But based on experience with

other families of ecological

cements also work in the

Cinvestav-Saltillo, Escalante

Garcia is estimated that at least

50 percent.

To date there are many scientists

in the world to prove the use of

glass, cement and concrete

equipment, but their approaches

are different.

Instead, the scientists proposed

Cinvestav, which already has two

patent applications nationally,

process focuses on the

production of an alternative to

Portland cement.

The main advantage would fail an

industrial waste that is converted

into useful materials, instead of

throwing more trash to landfills,

"said the expert.

The most appropriate niche

market for this innovation would

be the industry prefabricated

construction products.

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Our activities.

In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2016.

Cultural visits.

CULTURE 2016 program.

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institutions, among which include

known "Old playing the hurdy-

gurdy" (c. 1620-1630) and "Saint

Jerome reading" (c. 1627-29),

two recent additions to the

collections of the Prado which

illustrate the essential features of

the painting La Tour, specialized

in genre scenes and religious

affairs artist additions.

Forgotten for more than two

centuries, La Tour was recovered

in the early twentieth century

This March will visit the Prado

Museum to see the most

important exhibition in Spain on

Georges de La Tour (1593-1652),

considered one of the most

important French painters of the

seventeenth century.

A sample will be composed of

more than thirty paintings of the

author, an exceptional number

considering that only forty

paintings from his hand, from

prestigious international

thanks to a brief article by

Hermann Voss published in

1915, in which he related his first

painting with historical

documentation.

No one had been able to

recognize the personality of this

strange artist, whose paintings

often were attributed to Spanish

painters: John Rizzi, Herrera the

Elder, Zurbaran, Velazquez,

Murillo, Maíno, etc.

Portuguese design has

been installed for a few

weeks, until the end of

March in the Central

Design Slaughterhouse

Madrid, hosted an

exhibition 70 parts 44

shown authors.

These include some made

of glass and therefore we

will make a visit to this

Central of Design in this

March.

character, and heir to a fruitful

and rooted craft tradition, the

Content and sober, faithful

reflection of the Portuguese

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Stained Mountain.

It looks like European

tradition workshops with two

or three hundred years old.

It is no coincidence that there

impersonates nothing: not a

table or a chair has been

changed.

Miguel Angel Fernandez,

who for years was head of

the Coordination of Museums

and Exhibitions of the

National Institute of

Anthropology and History

and also drafted the book

'The Glass of Mexico', in the

restoration of the civil works

of Chapultepec Castle was

who He validated the

workshop to intervene

stained glass windows and

stained glass for the MIB.

"In Puebla there vitralistas,

also in the Federal District,

Why us? Miguel Angel

Fernandez puts his hand to

the spit and says: 'If you want

a stained glass window in

your museum' he says

directly to the governor, 'with

Mountain Tower'. And stained

glass we have to go to

market tomorrow, "said

Fernando Mountain.

The stained glass educates,

motivates and transforms,

said Gabriel Mountain his

son Fernando Mountain

Vazquez, representative of

the third generation within

'Vitrales Mountain', workshop

leader now places his art not

only in churches, restaurants

and museums, but in any

part of the world.

Installed since early last

century in Torreon, Mexico,

each utensil is valued.

Moreover workers, real

skilled craftsmen.

The light in the painting is

beautiful and refracts the

color in the pupils.

In the stained glass life

becomes color that explodes

through the light of his

pieces managing to

transform an environment.

The colors pop, fractals that

multiply their ruts on

anything: a plate, a glass, a

glass table.

Simple but extremely

worship, Fernando Mountain

explains that the painter

Chagall defined the stained

glass as an emotion, said it

was light that comes alive in

the colors motivating moods

and a change of

environment, creating

feelings of closeness

between the believer with

God in a temple, or the

saints in Europe to feel the

impact of the play of light

cathedrals.

"A similarity between the

stained glass window with

people live, normally

observed with light, like

people. Lights as it is

touched by the natural light

projecting inward. But you

light night light and

projection is outward as

people with their own light,

"says Fernando.

Focused on sending a

stained glass window

requested by the governor of

Puebla, Rafael Moreno

Valles, for the Museum of

International Baroque (MIB)

that will have 2 floors and

twenty rooms designed by

Toyo Ito, one of the top ten

architects in the world, in

Vitrales Mountain time he

stopped.

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Other trends. Opening of ARCO.

Among the many lattices forming

the braiding striking sculpture by

Cristina Iglesias iron, mobile

photographing people close to

Felipe and Letizia kings visiting the

booth trickled EL PAÍS.

Within the maze of two tons of

weight, the artist explained to the

Monarcas the complex process of

elaboration of the piece, oblivious

to the din of the royal party.

The route of the authorities,

accompanied by gallery owners,

bodyguards, journalists,

photographers and gawkers,

marked the official opening of the

35th edition of the Contemporary

Art Fair of Madrid (Arco).

Kings remained a long time in the

bowels of suspended III Pavilion,

dreams, as they spoke with

Iglesias, the president of El Pais,

Juan Luis Cebrián; COUNTRY

director, Antonio Cano; PRISA

CEO; José Luis Sainz and CEO of

PRISA News, Manuel Mirat.

The large presence of the dome of

the editor of this newspaper group

was due to the events celebrating

the 40th anniversary of El Pais,

which went on sale on May 4, 1976.

This commitment to the art of one

of the Spanish most international

creative with work in some of the

best museums in the world, is one

of the landmarks of the

commemoration, as it approaches

the commemorative date.

"They liked a lot and have shown

interest especially how a work of

this magnitude is made," said

Antonio Cano, at the end of the visit

of kings.

Not for less. The huge iron ship

Churches impressive. Create your

own space, a kind of shelter that

isolates the visitor from the rest of

the stands of the pavilion Ifema, the

Madrid Trade Fair which is held

Arco, attended by 221 galleries

from 27 countries.

The desire for refuge

"I am interested in this double

character building and

concealment, the desire for refuge

and also to show. Like the shadows

cast on the wall and on the ground,

outside the ship could be space,

"said the artist.

A ship leaving the reading of the

novel Solaris, Stanislaw Lem, as

recognized Churches, rather than

the influence of the eponymous film

by Andrei Tarkovsky - "although the

film is always there; without

realizing influences, "he added

Sister musician and soundtrack

composer Alberto Iglesias.

Not surprisingly, there are

fragments of the book inserted in a

work so rotund as subtle in its

multiple readings.

"Basque Art? Of course she is

Basque, and San Sebastián like me,

but mostly is an international artist,

"said Angel Gabilondo, former

Minister of Education and leader of

the socialist opposition in the Madrid

parliament.

"I was surprised and I liked it. You

walk in and then have to leave

behind a path of light and shadow,

"said the mayor of Madrid, Manuela

Carmena.

"It's architecture is literature, is

sculpture and the viewer must

transform Cristina suggestions,"

said the director of the National

Museum Reina Sofia, Manuel Borja-

Villel.

After the royal stele, which went to

other booths, visits to space EL

PAÍS followed.

Separated from the main

delegation, the Secretary of State

for Culture, Jose Maria Lassalle,

had an impact on "Aporia" (paradox

or insurmountable logical difficulty)

presented by the artist in his work of

Arc have received visits from the

general public after two days of

buyers and professionals.

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For some time now we have been

hearing different technological

initiatives to create smart windows that

react to environmental conditions

instinctive way to create comfortable

conditions inside the rooms.

Thus, apart from user comfort, also it

contributes to greater energy efficiency

of the building, with consequent

savings in energy and monetary

expense that entails.

The widespread application of these

technologies is, however, very difficult

due mainly to its high cost and has

only been possible installation in very

specific and selective situations.

However, the Higher Council for

Scientific Research (CSIC) has

developed a strategy based on not

based on liquid crystal (LC), which

could have a wide implementation in all

types of window and facade at a very

economical cost materials solution.

Vitreous has maintained an interview

with Professor David Levy, Department

of Photonic Materials Institute of

Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM),

the CSIC, who has had the

collaboration of Dr. Marcos Zayat,

ICMM also in development this

innovative and affordable technology.

What is an intelligent window and why

it is not yet current use in the actual

construction?

In recent years they have tried to

develop successfully without valid

technologies for application in smart

windows, or "smart windows", based

on different principles to obtain a

variable transmission window light.

These systems use very sophisticated

techniques and huge production costs,

especially when it comes to large for

use for example in facades, so not

Interview with David Levy (I).

change their optical transmission in the

visible and infrared range, achieving

switching between a transparent state

and an opaque.

As a result, the device regulates the

amount of visible light or infrared and

reduces sun visibility through the glass.

None of the existing systems work, or

its working principle is based,

according to an air flow with controlled

humidity as element that causes the

change in transmittance of the new

device (switching ON-OFF).

The device shown in the figure is a

15x15 cm window in which there are

two coated with EMD coating facing an

interior cavity through which is passed

the humidity controlled air for activation

glasses.

The system is complemented by an

autonomous activation box which

houses a system to damp or dry air

circulating inside the window.

The application of this coating less

than one micron thick acts as a barrier

able to control the amount of light

passing through glass and thus reduce

visibility or provide privacy instantly,

adjust the lighting in places where

necessary or act as protective against

solar radiation.

Its operation can be activated with a

remote controller and the response

times are a few seconds.

What are its main advantages?

The simple and easy preparation

device and that use cheaper materials

than conventionally used in other

intelligent and compliant window

environment, causes the

manufacturing costs are extremely low,

allowing the mass production of smart

structures of great surface (square

meters). ..//..

industrially manufactured, except for

special orders.

This is the main reason why we are

not smart windows in our own homes.

What solution developed in the CSIC

and how to solve these problems?

Our contribution in this field is a

pioneer and very important.

This CSIC of Windows Smart EMDs

(Externally Modulated Displays)

technology is unprecedented because

innovation representing lies in the

possibility of manufacturing smart

windows that do not require for their

expensive manufacturing components

such as conductive glasses (ITO) or

compounds LC , for operation.

These two elements are those that

raise very markedly manufacture of

conventional smart windows

(electrochromic, LCD, PDLC / GDLC,

SPD, etc.) and, therefore, are a major

limitation for insertion in the market.

The EMDs not only represent a very

attractive to existing technologies

alternative, but they are also an

alternative more "accessible" in

economic terms, since it will allow the

manufacture reasonably priced

facilitating large-scale introduction of

the technology of smart windows the

market and expanding the range of the

sector to new potential users.

What is this new technique to achieve

"smart windows"?

The operating principle of this

technology is based on the controlled

activation of a combination of chemical

and physical reactions which produce

the opaque-transparent glass window

switching.

These coatings EMDs consist of thin

films of highly porous material by

exposure to wet or dry air, radically

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Interview with David Levy (II).

..//..

As an example, a square meter of a

classic window to be able to perform

these functions can cost thousands of

euros, but with our technology just a

few cents!

What applications can have this new

technology?

The technology can be applied in

different elements of a building

windows or doors, partition panels in

offices, sliding doors, regulatory

elements or light protection, display

screens of information, ceiling panels,

skylights, mirrors for applications in

architecture decoration inside or

outside of buildings or regulatory

elements or light protection, among

others.

Its operation can be controlled with a

remote controller and can be applied

in intelligent buildings as windows and

doors and partition panels office on

sliding doors, storefronts, restaurants,

shops, hotels, bathrooms, hospitals

and large surfaces, creating "privacy

"desired efficiently and dynamically

(reversible).

They have done already testing

application work? What has been the

behavior?

There have been no trials work.

The EMDs have aroused great interest

of the industry related to this field, and

we have good expectations apply in

this sector.

The transfer of this technology new

windows EMD is well advanced, since

there is already a demonstrator or

prototype preliminary laboratory size

shown in the photograph.

We are now thinking move to the

phase of scaling-up to develop a larger

device that can exhibit at any trade

fair.

They have taken into account the

current regulations at present in the

building sector?

It was not necessary because it is a

simple modification of currently used

glass therefore adapts to these

regulations.

It is this technology supports its

application in any type of glass or

surface or, conversely, requires any

special requirements?

Yes, it is compatible. This is a premise

that we set in the first steps of this

invention.

This technology was created to save

the current deficit windows in the

market. Not only is an economic

factor.

When making a smart window and

pretend incorporate it into the

production lines of specialized

industrial sector, manufacturing

processes must also be "simple".

Manufacturers also seek profitability in

their manufacturing lines while saving

time also reduce their costs.

We are talking about profitability of

industrial processes. The EMDs meet

this requirement since it is a product

that is both complex and novel is

simple to manufacture.

Another no less important advantage

is its high photo-stability (do not

degrade light) when exposed to

sunlight, which makes them valid for

use abroad.

We have also managed to adapt the

technology so that it can be used on

surfaces that are flexible, flat, curved,

whether glass or polymer.

In terms of energy efficiency, what are

the advantages of this new

development?

These windows can be used in a wide

variety of applications where control

light passing through the window or a

dynamic or controlled privacy required.

These windows may also be

appropriate to reduce the air

conditioning load of a building in

summer and heating in winter, thus

offering an optimization of energy

resources in buildings, but perhaps

most remarkable in terms of energy

savings is that the main consumer

need for activation is the "water" and

only in small amounts.

During times of opacity of the window

allows the external view from inside the

room?

No. Privacy is a target and therefore of

the characteristics of the invention.

Moreover, it does allow light through,

therefore not need to turn on a light to

illuminate the room, but that would take

advantage of ambient light.

Have you already been interest by the

industry in this innovation? Where

should contact companies interested in

adopting this technology?

This research is aimed at both the

architectural sector and decor as for

windows, partitions (interior / exterior)

and privacy in buildings, meeting the

demands of current sustainability

application in the sectors construction

and energy and even the automotive

sector.

Any interest in the industry in this

technology that we intend to transfer

our laboratory to industry is welcome,

because we are at a very advanced

stage and willing to make the transfer.

They can go to CSIC or the Office of

Knowledge Transfer of CSIC.

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HAS, leading Vietnam.

Established in 2012, the

limited liability company

HAS has become one of

the leading companies in

Vietnam producing

glassware Bohemia.

Its products have been

exported to many

markets like the US,

Europe and Japan,

among others.

Bohemia is a famous

brand of glass in the

Czech Republic, with

high-end products such

as glass, glasses,

memorabilia and

decorative.

After its constitution, the

company quickly

established HAS its

position in the domestic

market, because in

Vietnam there are few

manufacturers of high-

end glass.

The company was

founded by Nguyen Thi

Hoa, who was born into a

family with a tradition in

the production of glass in

the province of Thai Binh.

After graduating from

college in 2000, Hoa

worked for a company

specializing in the

distribution and

manufacture of glass

products company

Bohemia.

During his 12 years of

work there, I had the

opportunity to work with

foreign experts and

accumulated experience

and knowledge about this

type of product.

He decided to establish

his own company and

successfully investigated

a new production line of

glassware Bohemia.

HAS now has a factory in

Quoc Huong Street, Thao

Dien district of, District 2,

Ho Chi Minh City.

Their products vary in

styles and sizes, each

made in different colors

such as yellow, green,

blue, vermilion, pink and

purple.

Many designs are made

in classic and realistic

styles, with gold or carved

decorative patterns.

All materials are imported

from Germany, Poland

and the Czech Republic.

According to Hoa, it is

very difficult to satisfy

foreign customers, as

they have good taste and

are very demanding, so in

addition to advanced

technology and modern

production lines, also

requires workers skills

and diligence.

It HAS has become one

of the leading

manufacturers and

distributors of glassware

in Vietnam.

His pieces are sold in

most provinces and glass

products are high-end

favorites of large groups

and corporations.

Each year, the company

achieved sales of about

40 billion VND and

occupies about 40

percent of the market

share of exports in the

US, Europe and some

Asian countries like Japan

and Singapore.

It also has the privilege of

being distributor of

Bohemian crystal for

some companies in the

Czech Republic.

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The Ladies of Cerdanyola.

hosted the Doménech Laboratories, hence also known as Can Domenech, were dismantled in the sixties.

When the museum opened in 2009 it was able to recover the bottom of the leaded glass and the lower wood, but the top was rebuilt.

"Coincidentally, when it would proceed with the restoration of the door with problems Leaded appeared a neighbor who had located the top was missing, so all conceded" he says, pleased, the director who knows a Balcells 1906 sketch of the door "so it turns 100 years."

"Many of the people who visited us from Barcelona have said they would return to see the ladies in their original place," Romero says.

You will also see a sign that is now underway in the MAC, on the rationalist architecture in Cerdanyola, analyzing seven examples of these projected premier architects whose careers germinated in the thirties and the Civil War smashed buildings.

"Today only two remain standing, others were expanded and modified and are almost unrecognizable" remacha Romero.

[the restaurateur who returned their splendor in 2014] who advised the transfer, "says Txema Romero, director of MAC, which maintains that it has been a tremendous spread of the museum has increased the number of visitors.

"People who visit us ask them where they come from and especially on weekends, are Barcelona."

The Ladies of Cerdanyola are three huge panels made in 1910 for the main hall of the summer residence of the merchant Evaristo Lopez.

In her six women appear surrounded by nature. In one of them, two women are swinging so placida (this is the group that has traveled to Barcelona); in the other, two women peonies launch the swans from a boat and the last pick flowers along the water.

The old ladies have found their way home a gift.

"On Wednesday he finished assembling the original gateway to the house; an exquisite union of wood and stained glass floral inspiration and example of modernism, "Romero says.

The door, like the other windows of the building that

That modernism is not just a phenomenon Barcelona is something known.

Other towns close to the capital have signed works by Antoni Gaudí, Domenech i Montaner Lluís Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

In the exhibition Modernism, art, workshops and industries that have visited nearly 100,000 people in La Pedrera in which the fundamental role of applied and decorative arts in the Catalan modernism showed, the first piece that received the visitor was a splendid glass of Cerdanyola Art Museum (MAC), known popularly as the "Ladies of Cerdanyola".

Considered one of the most outstanding works of art of modernist glass of Catalonia, once the sample back to look at the place for which they were created, the Casa Evarist López, a modernist housing Gaeietà Buigas and Eduard Maria Balcell built in 1894 in the heart of the city of Valles Occidental.

"It was like having a storefront on Passeig Gràcia. When they requested the pieces was a huge responsibility. Ask advice from the Center for Restoration of Personal Property of the Generalitat and Jordi Bonet,

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Integrating graphene into glass.

A group of scientists from

the University of Stony

Brook and the Department

of Energy's Brookhaven

National Laboratory in the

US has developed a glass

with electronic properties

that integrates graphene

and could optimize the

screens of all types of

devices and solar cells .

The method that created

these researchers can add

layers of graphene on the

surface of ordinary glass,

and stands out as a

scalable, easy to

implement and inexpensive

process.

In tests, scientists used a

glass substrate of soda

and lime, most common

glass, which can be found

in the windows, bottles and

many other everyday

objects.

When applied the

graphene, the sodium

atoms present in the glass

potentiated the electronic

properties of the miracle

material.

"Sodium inside the glass

creates a high density of

electrons in graphene,

which is essential to carry

out many processes," said

Nanditha Dissanayake, a

member of the team, which

believes it has been a

challenge to get this

reaction.

The method has been used

to integrate graphene

group in glass known as

doping, through which

foreign chemicals are

introduced.

However, scientists

discovered that graphene

may be doped optimally

without adding chemicals,

allowing the resulting

compound is more resistant

to degradation.

There is still much work to

be done and we need to

continue research on the

process of doping and

carefully examine the

strength of the material

during exposure to

operating conditions of the

real world.

Potential applications of

conductive glass graphene

are many, from consumer

electronics to energy

technologies.

For example, it is a

promising candidate to

replace indium tin oxide in

solar cells, in organic light

emitting diodes (OLEDs) in

display screens and touch.

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How does it.

This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Gudenrath reticello.

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5D data recording.

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A system of eternal 5D data recording is presented.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have taken a big step forward in the development of digital data storage, able to survive for billions of years.

Using nanostructured glass, scientists Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University (ORC) have developed recording and retrieval processes five-dimensional (5D) digital data recording femtosecond laser.

This storage allows properties unprecedented, including the capacity of 360 TB / disk, thermal stability up to 1000 ° C and life virtually unlimited at room temperature (13,800 million years to 190 ° C) by opening a new era of data file eternal form.

With a very stable, secure portable memory form, the technology could be useful for organizations with large files, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.

The technology was demonstrated experimentally for the first time in 2013, recording a digital copy of 300 kb of a text file successfully in 5D.

Now, the main documents of human history, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the optics of Newton or the British Magna Carta, have been saved as digital copies that could survive the human race.

The documents were recorded using ultrafast lasers producing extremely short and intense light pulses.

The file is written in three layers of nanostructured points separated by five micrometers (one millionth of a meter).

Self-assembled nanostructures change the paths with the light passes through the glass, changing the polarization of light that can be read by combination of optical microscope and a polarizer.

Glass memory has been compared to the 'memory crystals' used in the Superman movies.

Data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz.

The information coding is carried out in five dimensions: the size and orientation, in addition to the three-dimensional position of these nanostructures.

Professor Peter Kazansky, the ORC, says :. "It's exciting to think we've created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations This technology can ensure the latest evidence of our civilization. Everything we've learned will not be forgotten".

The system will be presented at the meeting of the Optical Engineering Conference in San Francisco.

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The huge fresco drawn with

mud Barceló created in the

glass facade of the French

National Library is "heir to

the Seu," says the artist in

an interview that was

broadcast by the program

ib3 Dues voltes.

Space analysis and

presenting Neus Albis today

issued a report focused on

the work Barceló prepares

for the French capital.

Inside Sa Teulera, his pottery

workshop Vilafranca, the

artist explained that what

could be seen at the Paris

library will be "a great

window painted in mud", a

material that appreciates

"because it allows the

passage of light and It

achieves a very particular

and special light. "

Barceló shown in the

program IB3 the play of

shadows and light projected

into library work drawn on

the glass.

"It is a living work," says the

artist. "You never repeated

the same, since the

conjunction of the sun and

vegetation in this case

outside of Vilafranca- makes

the drawing is literally

always different, an idea that

I really like."

The painter wanted to clarify

that the works to be

displayed both inside the

library and the Picasso

Museum, respond to "a

single exposure", with

bullfighting echoes, titled

Sun and shadow.

"In the National Library will

be more engravings,

paintings, one of them very

large, of the eighties. Also

recent work, etchings,

portraits of my mother,

ceramics, bronzes ... a

summary of what you will

find in the two exhibitions I

have been doing for years,

"he said.

Asked about his feelings to

be announced in France as

the first living artist to enter

the Museum of Paris with a

monographic since its

reopening in 2014, Barcelo

joked: "It's not to be

indifferent, but should be

alive."

Barceló also acknowledged

that it was "fun" Speaking at

the Seu, in the Blessed

Sacrament chapel.

"I go often to visit with

friends," he acknowledged,

while indicating that its

intervention on the facade of

the library Paris "has a lot to

do with what I did in the Seu,

because it's mud."

"That was the first time I

used the mud to a

monumental work. In Paris

the work also will be

monumental but ephemeral,

because it is unfired mud.

Everything is ephemeral,

including Seu" he added.

After his work in the

cathedral, he recalled, "we

did the performance Paso

doble, also with mud and

ephemeral".

New window Barceló.

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The myth of Cinderella.

With the help of the Fairy

Godmother, Cinderella gets

her rags turn into a splendid

dress, and a pumpkin in a

luxurious carriage.

At least until twelve o'clock.

Because at that time, as the

story says, Cinderella has to

run with your shoes glass

before the illusion faded and

Prince discovered his true

aspect.

But physics knows no

illusions or tale.

A group of students from the

University of Leicester has

shown that Cinderella could

not have fled the Prince at

twelve o'clock if I had gone

driveway with glass shoes.

In research published in

"Journal of Physics Special

Topics", a magazine in which

students do work related

fiction and reality and that fit

curiosities but scientific

advances, these young

people have evaluated the

resistance that would have a

heeled shoe with glass.

"While Cinderella could have

been standing with her

shoes, regardless of the size

of the heel, you can not say

the same if I had tried

walking or running,"

explained these young

people in their particular

study.

In the best case scenario, as

calculated resistance glass

and the forces at play, these

scientists argue that

Cinderella could have fled

the Prince with a shoe with a

heel of at most 1.15

centimeters.

A length much less than

what is usually seen in the

drawings.

To reach that conclusion,

students equations applied

to measure the resistance to

the weight of the shoe, when

Cinderella was standing

when I was walking or when

I was running.

They also estimated the

resistance of the glass

through simplification: they

felt that it was made of one

of the most common glass

so applied the parameters of

hardness and strength of

this material.

In addition, they were forced

to estimate the measures of

the girl.

To simplify things, they

agreed that Cinderella

weighed 55kg and had 32

European.

He also had to take into

account the angle of the heel

to the ground when walking

or running, stride height, the

pressure distribution along

the length of the heel ... etc.

As Mervyn Roy, one of the

teachers responsible for this

work, National Geographic

said, "There is only one real

world, but once you look in

fiction, there is a vast realm

of things to explore."

Apart from the funny, or not,

that results such studies, the

scientist also said that if

today students can solve

problems as simple as it is

thanks to the work of others

in the past.

But even in the case study

shoe Cinderella would still

have to continue studies with

new materials or different

angles of impact of the heel.

Science is restless until he

touches the realm of fantasy.

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Efficient solar sphere.

This solar sphere is 70%

more efficient than

traditional panels and

generates energy to the

moonlight.

Its operation is quite

simple.

The device comprises a

container completely

spherical glass filled with

water for magnifying the

intensity of sunlight at

over 10,000 times.

With this simple device is

not only able to capture

energy on sunny days,

but also on cloudy days

and even generate

energy at night from the

moonlight.

By the geometry of the

solar sphere, much of the

light received on the

previous cap is reflected

and magnified on the

back, which in turn, by a

bending effect, sunlight

concentrated inward

subsequent

intensification in a certain

area of your base.

Right in that area tiny

solar panels are

positioned to capture the

arrival of that ray of light

magnified.

Although this

phenomenon of

amplification and

concentration of sunlight

from water has been

known for centuries, the

novelty introduced by the

German architect and

inventor André Broessel,

is to provide the

Rawlemon of a

positioning system with

respect to the constant

movement of the sun and

the moon to the system

much more efficient than

current photovoltaic

technology.

One of the premises of

this young architect was

without the use of

sophisticated

semiconductor devices or

complicated technology,

the cost of which hinder

the accessibility of users

walk to this type of high

efficiency devices.

Glass, water and tiny

solar panels, along with

positioning software from

the sun or moon, is all

you need Rawlemon for

generating energy from

the light captured 24

hours a day.

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High performance glass.

The Museu do Amanhã be one

of the great cultural icons of

the 2016 Summer Olympics.

And the extraordinary building,

which has renovated and

modernized and decadent

image of Porto Maravilha, is

double stamp 'made in Spain'

in its construction.

On the one hand, the

exceptional design of the most

international Spanish architect,

Santiago Calatrava, and on the

other the glass skin that

surrounds a steel structure that

seems to emerge from the

water of the bay, thanks to

TVITEC.

TVITEC, the first Spanish

manufacturer of architectural

glass, provided for this work

over 3,000 m2 of different

products of high performance

and design features and a very

demanding specifications of

solar control in the field of

industrial transformation.

TVITEC dressed the Museum

of Tomorrow, in which

laminated and tempered glass

used by incorporating solar

control coatings to improve the

energy efficiency of the

complex, which also installed,

considering the sustainable

design of Calatrava,

photovoltaic panels on its

cover .

Laminates processed by

TVITEC belong to the extra

clear Solar Sunguard

Guardian Neutral 67 model,

which promote transparency

and luminosity, and have 4

sheets colorless PVB that

guarantee, in turn, security.

The rolled-tempered are of

various thicknesses: 12 + 12;

6 + 6, 8 + 8 and 10 + 10.

They also incorporate a small

dark-colored silk-screened on

the inner side of each unit.

In total more than 750 pieces

of glass of irregular shapes

and sizes, some of which are

around 4 m they were

processed.

The Spanish transformer,

which has its main production

site in Cubillos del Sil -very

near Ponferrada- is now one of

only two in Europe that can

manufacture glass up to 12 m

in length (mega-jumbos).

These pieces, large and

characterized by transparency,

contribute to the team claim

Calatrava to achieve highly

luminous spaces that magnify

the size of the rooms.

The Museu do Amanhã opened

last December 19 and in

addition to receiving thousands

of hits in the early days- is

already listed as one of the 10

new best museums in the

world.

Dedicated to science and

technology, invites you to

imagine how we will live in the

next 50 years; audiovisual

immersive spaces, interactive

installations and games are

available in Portuguese,

English and Spanish.

The spectacular glass shell

that opens like a large window

on the front of the museum is

an element of the most

distinctive of the project, which

has had the Odebrecht

construction company as a

major player and Martifer

fachadista as responsible for

the structure, in which

architectural glass 'made in

Spain' plays a prominent role.

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Swarovski awards.

The winners of Swarovski

Designers of the Future Award

this year, proposed by Design

Miami and Swarovski, have

been announced in Paris: the

Japanese sound artist based

in London, Yuri Suzuki; Indian

artist Anjali Srinivasan glass;

and German-Icelandic duo

Veronika Sedlmair and Brynjar

Siguroarson whose Brynjar &

Veronika Studio is based in

Berlin.

The winners were invited to

the Swarovski headquarters in

Wattens, Austria, to explore

the techniques of glass

manufacturing company.

The winners have been

commissioned to Swarovksi to

create new works around the

glass, working closely with

experts Swarovski production

to be released in the twelfth

edition of Design Miami Basel

14 to 19 June.

The commission invited to

investigate the notion of

refinement as part of the

creative process, while

presenting an ideal way to

design how to live in the future

proposal.

"The Swarovski Designers of

the Future Award aims to

highlight the different

approaches and

technologically daring design

through the work of designers

who are not yet household

names," said Rodman

Primack, executive director of

Design Miami, who have been

granting the award since 2006.

"The winners this year are

witness to the breadth of this

field, with explorations in

sound design, glass work and

the fact storytelling through

design".

The award recognizes

designers and emerging

studies are expanding the

culture of design through

experimentation with

innovative technology.

Previous winners were the

Studio Swine, who created

optical frames with human hair

and manufactured plastic

objects found at sea; "Techno-

fairy" Elaine Ng Tan Ling,

known for his work of bio-

mimicry and textiles; and Max

Lamb, who recently unveiled

an installation made with a

tree in the garden of his

grandfather for the London

Design Week and FUMI

Gallery.

2016 winners were selected by

a jury of leading figures in the

design world, including Nadja

Swarovski; Devan Sudjic, the

Director of the London Design

Museum; Zoe Ryan, the

Curator of Architecture and

Design at the Art Institute of

Chicago; Li Edelkoort, trend

analyst and director of Parsons

Design Interdisciplinary

Program; architect Asif Khan

and Alexandra Cunningham

Cameron of Design Miami.

Over the years, the award has

been a strong indicator of the

state of design, highlighting

emerging talents at the top of

their field globally throughout

the entire industry.

The exhibition of the Designers

of the Future of Design Miami

Basel brings a new energy and

a creative and experimental

advantage the most important

event for the high-end market

luxury design, creating a cross-

pollination between the

collectable design, design as

art (which tends to be

conservative when it comes to

new production technologies)

and the vanguard.

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Friends of the School of Glass.

implementation activities

of the School of Glass

educational program.

Support personal and

professional

development / as

alumni / ae.

Contribute to

sustainable and long-

term financing of the

project.

Support activities aimed

at development of the

community in which the

School of Glass is

located.

In addition, community

development projects are

promoted both educational

structures and

communities from which

they come students in

supplementary educational

needs, and all kinds of

actions for the benefit of

the community.

Contact the Association of

Friends of the School of

Glass through this link.

AEV OBJECTIVES:

Ensure the objectives of

the School of Glass.

Support the

The Friends Association of

the School of Glass (AEV)

in El Progreso, Yoro,

Honduras, is a non-profit

NGO, promoted by

professional and committed

people, whose mission is to

advocate for access to

education for young

people, as a means of

improving the quality of life

and development at

Community level.

The AEV ensures the

proper operation of the

School of Glass and

supports both the

curriculum and the

development of students.

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Sevilla Tower, the highest of Andalusia.

The visit organized CaixaBank

Sevilla Torre has revealed

curiosities Cartuja skyscraper,

a building 180 meters high,

making it the highest in

Andalusia.

Among these curiosities is the

speed of their lifts, climbing

one time in walking over three

meters per second plant.

In total, it takes just over 35

seconds to travel the 37 first

floors.

The building has 12 elevators

and a forklift. Six lifts up from

the floor to the 18 -4 plant and

six rise from 19 to 35. The

forklift makes the journey from

the -4 to 37.

In that last visitable floor there

is an exceptional panoramic

viewpoint, which allows us to

contemplate bird's eye view

Cartuja, the old town, the river,

Triana, Tablada or Aljarafe.

"From here you have a unique

perspective of the Giralda,"

said Rafael Herrador

yesterday, territorial director of

CaixaBank, the financial

institution that took over the

project in 2012 after the

merger of La Caixa and

Cajasol.

The building has 11 pedestrian

walkways that connect the

entrance of Tower Seville

Square, where buildings

podiums go the mall and the

CaixaForum.

Hotel guests and office users

will have different access.

Customers will do it from the

floor facing the street, while

office workers will use an

access from floor -1. Workers

will have an entry card that

also identify them in elevators.

It is expected that Hotusa, the

chain operate a hotel in 13 of

the 39 floors of the skyscraper,

open a panoramic restaurant

on the 37th floor, the last to be

visited.

Farrier declined to say whether

the hotel is five star luxury, as

stated in the beginning, since

now being negotiated with the

City Council and the Board its

characteristics and

modification of the regional

regulations for this and other

skyscrapers remain exempt

from the requirement, for

example, have windows. "It

will be a unique and premium

hotel," said the regional

director of CaixaBank.

The skyscraper has 19,000 m2

of glass facade. Manuel

Jimenez, manager of Puerto

Triana, which owns the

skyscraper and whose shares

are 100% of CaixaBank

explains that for thorough

cleaning requires at least three

months.

Operators are cleaning façade

strips from top to bottom.

In addition to the glass coating,

it has 1,500 tons of steel on its

facade. These steel blades

replaced the ceramic coating

thought at first and then was

scrapped because of the

danger that could lead to

passersby if they gave off any

blow gondolas used to clean

glasses. "Any piece that could

shed ceramics would become

a projectile for pedestrians

when falling from 180 meters

high," said Rafael Herrador.

The gardens there on the

covers of the two podiums

buildings where a shopping

mall will not be visited by the

public in general for security

reasons, although Puerto

Triana does not rule out a

future open to small groups.

Rainwater collected in wells

located on the -4 floor of the

building allow watering these

gardens, with 12,000 square

meters and more than 3,000

units of 60 plant species, may

not be visited by the general

public now.

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Meet the artist Orfeo Quagliata.

Orfeo Quagliata is a unique

artist, who uses the physics

of light, the science of

industrial engineering and

the beauty of art to give life

to the beautiful glass

sculptures of contemporary

style never seen before.

Definitely a similar style you

will not see in the

foreseeable future.

Born in San Francisco, he

has been in contact with

glass child, because for

some time he worked

alongside his father learning

about this material.

Then studied architecture,

industrial design and

furniture design.

The artist likes to experiment

with different techniques and

create conceptual pieces,

using their knowledge in

different disciplines to make

combinations of colors, sizes

and geometries.

His first official work was

done 15 years ago. We talk

about a necklace that was a

glass plate fused in stripes

with a silver piece in the

middle.

Since then he became

increasingly complex jobs,

giving a special name to

each of the pieces

performed, an eccentric

detail and quite strange.

This artist is quite expensive

these days and often uses

the phrase "I'm so fusing

future" to describe himself.

He even went to print shirts

with different colors and that

phrase in the middle.

She loves to do fungi, bars

and mini bars, tables, stained

glass and jewelry.

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Castillo de San José de

Valderas.

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n

28925 ALCORCÓN

MADRID

Our Newsletter is worded

in:

When glass culture

The Association of Friends of MAVA

was incorporated on June 21, 2003 in

accordance with current management.

The purpose of this Association is to

promote, encourage and support many

cultural activities, in the broadest terms,

are related to the mission and activities

of the Museum of Glass Art Alcorcon.

Our goal is to develop and collabora-

te with other public or private entities in

the promotion, protection and dissemi-

nation of art and culture.

Our members may be fees, benefac-

tors, Full and juveniles.

www.amigosmava.org

Presidente honorario

Javier Gómez Gómez

Presidente

Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez

Vicepresidente

Pablo Bravo García

Secretaria

Rosa García Montemayor

Tesorera

Mª Angeles Cañas Santos

Vocales

Evangelina del Poyo

Diego Martín García

Francisco Martín García

José María Gallardo Breña

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Reina Sofía Awards (III).