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Rudy Ricciotti wins Colored Concrete Works Award 2017

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess presented its third Colored Concrete Works Award in Berlin on May 17, 2017, to a distinguished architect who has achieved something unique in the use of colored concrete. This year’s award goes to Rudy Ricciotti for his “Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée” (MuCEM) project in Marseille in the south of France. The building is constructed of a total of 1,100 m3 of concrete – in the form of prefabricated concrete slabs – and 250 m3 of in-situ concrete. The dark gray color tone was provided by the Lanxess pigments Bayferrox 330 and...

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