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Villain House is a concrete replica of an old Barcelona townhouse

August 29, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local studio Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has replaced a dilapidated townhouse in Barcelona with a concrete home that mimics its original footprint. Named Villain House, the home incorporates the existing front facade, which Architecture Office Claudia Raurell said was the only salvageable part of the structure. The new volume has a blocky, straw-coloured concrete structure

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Stone ruins turned into Spanish home by H Arquitectes

August 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The crumbling stone walls of an old farmhouse formed the starting point for Casa 1627, a house in Spain completed by local studio H Arquitectes. In the agricultural landscape of Pals in Girona’s Baix Empordà, all that was left of the Mas Geli farmhouse was two outer cyclopean masonry walls supported by large buttresses. H

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“There is a tipping point of too much exposed concrete” says commenter

August 16, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Barcelona with “robust and monolithic” walls formed of tactile poured concrete completed by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. H Arquitectes created a skylit, triple-height atrium at the home’s centre that is framed by concrete columns and balconies above. “There is a tipping point of too

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Textured layers of poured concrete enclose Barcelona home by H Arquitectes

August 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio H Arquitectes has completed Casa 1736, a house in Barcelona with “robust and monolithic” walls formed of tactile poured concrete. The challenge of the design was to provide the three-storey home with sufficient ventilation and daylight, due to its deep plot bordered by neighbouring buildings. To achieve this, H Arquitectes created a skylit,

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David Closes adds jagged metal entrance to museum in Catalonia

August 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A jagged form clad in perforated aluminium marks the Baroque Museum of Catalonia entrance in Manresa, Spain, which has been updated by local architect David Closes. The new pavilion is one of several interventions improving access to the museum, which occupies a former 17th-century Jesuit college building alongside Manresa’s City History Museum. Closes’ design sits

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GMP Architekten tranforms Santiago Bernabéu into “sparkling” Madrid landmark

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed its remodelling of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium for Real Madrid, wrapping the exterior in sinuous metal louvres. Home to the Real Madrid football team, GMP Architekten collaborated with Spanish architecture studios L35 and Ribas & Ribas to transform the stadium into a multifunctional arena with an underground retractable pitch. Aiming to create

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Funcionable restores and updates historic home in Spain

August 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish architecture practice Funcionable has renovated a century-old home in a heritage-protected area of Toledo, making “few but radical” alterations to its historic masonry fabric. Named Reminiscent Home, the dwelling was in fact the place in which Funcionable founder, Julio Cesar Moreno, had been born, which informed the studio’s approach of reconnecting with the building’s

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MIAS references spider anatomy for foyer of Spanish healthcare centre

July 17, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

A radial wooden structure reminiscent of the body of a spider defines this foyer for a therapeutic healthcare centre, completed by architecture studio MIAS in the hills of Catalonia. Located in the town of Arenys de Munt, the teal-coloured pavilion is designed by MIAS as a flexible and “domestic” space where family members, patients and doctors can

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Núñez Ribot pairs cork with mass timber at Casa Pádel in Madrid

July 5, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Spanish architects Teo Nuñez and Almudena Ribot have built the Casa Pádel apartment block in Madrid, combining a cross-laminated timber structure with cork cladding. The block of five apartments, one of which is lived in by the Núñez Ribot Arquitectos founders, occupies a sunken site in Aravaca that previously served as a padel tennis court.

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