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Too Good to Waste seeks to question the validity of the current relationship between wood consumption and fashion. Contrary to popular perception, not all forests are disappearing. In fact, the vast American hardwood forest is a quickly expanding resource and the volume of its standing timber has more than doubled in the last 50 years.

A guided tour of the American Hardwood Export Council’s Too Good to Waste project, an interactive installation designed by Barcelona-based architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and crafted by furniture makers Benchmark.

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Based on an idea by Dave Venables, director of the American Hardwood Export Council, designed by Architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and carried out by Sean Sutcliffe of Benchmark Furniture, one of the best-known furniture makers in Europe, Too Good to Waste, an exhibition in Segovia’s Plaza Mayor is an exciting initiative to promote new approaches to sustainable design. Chaired by Michelangelo Giombini.

Internationally acclaimed architect Richard Rogers, Pritzker Prize winner in 2007 and one of the world’s leading representatives of contemporary urban planning, talks about his vision for the future of the planet’s cities with Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize and Dean of IE University’s School of Architecture and Design. Among Rogers’ landmark buildings are the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd’s building in London and Madrid’s T4 at Barajas Airport. He also designed the headquarters of the Protos winery in Peñafiel, close to Segovia. He and his team are currently working on the Castellana Norte project to develop the northern edge of the Spanish capital.

Writer and architectural critic Deyan Sudjic is the Director of Design at the Museum of London, which has become one of the world’s leading spaces for contemporary design. The author of the influential The Language of Cities talks to Liam Aldous, correspondent in Spain for Monocle magazine and an expert on urban trends, about the need for radical shifts in the way our cities are designed.

Introduced by Emilio Gil of Red Española de Asociaciones de Diseño (READ)

Too Good to Waste seeks to question the validity of the current relationship between wood consumption and fashion. Contrary to popular perception, not all forests are disappearing. In fact, the vast American hardwood forest is a quickly expanding resource and the volume of its standing timber has more than doubled in the last 50 years.

A guided tour of the American Hardwood Export Council’s Too Good to Waste project, an interactive installation designed by Barcelona-based architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and crafted by furniture makers Benchmark.

One of the world’s first public parks, Városliget (City Park) is in Budapest. For over 150 years the park and its institutions of culture have been a green oasis for relaxation, entertainment and recreation. After a couple of decades of decline, the Liget Budapest Project is renovating it. As part of the cultural development, Sou Fujimoto’s piece of art, the House of Hungarian Music will be housed there.  How will this development renew the area and the cultural life of the capital?

Too Good to Waste seeks to question the validity of the current relationship between wood consumption and fashion. Contrary to popular perception, not all forests are disappearing. In fact, the vast American hardwood forest is a quickly expanding resource and the volume of its standing timber has more than doubled in the last 50 years.

A guided tour of the American Hardwood Export Council’s Too Good to Waste project, an interactive installation designed by Barcelona-based architect Benedetta Tagliabue, and crafted by furniture makers Benchmark.

Event in Spanish

Luis Vidal is one of Spain’s leading architects and over the last two decades has been involved in the design of some of Europe’s major airports, incorporating the most advanced technology to improve their flexibility and efficiency. He talks to Simon Manley, the British ambassador, about the role that air hubs can play within the broader challenge of adapting our cities to changing times.