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Destudio inverts day and night zones at redesigned Casa Inversa apartment

April 1, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Destudio has remodelled an apartment in Valencia for a couple of empty nesters, swapping the positions of the living and sleeping areas so they perform better for the owners’ lifestyles. The clients, who recently worked with Destudio to design their pharmacy in the Spanish city, invited the studio to oversee the renovation of

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Barcelona’s “best projects are being done in the field of social housing”

March 27, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

As part of our Social Housing Revival series, we spotlight the city of Barcelona, which is shrugging off the legacy of fascism by rapidly ramping up its supply of social housing. In June 2015, veteran housing activist Ada Colau became the first female mayor of Barcelona. She had risen to prominence clashing with police as

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Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa clads rural Spanish house with cork blocks

March 20, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has completed The Cork and Wood House, a home in Spain that is finished with a raw palette of materials. Located in the farming hamlet of Navajeda, the 175-square-metre home was designed by Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa to have a minimal impact on its rural surroundings, both visually and in terms of

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Isern Serra completes “serene” office for Spanish eyewear brand

March 13, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Sculptural custom-made furniture adds artistic flourishes to this otherwise minimal showroom and head office, designed by Spanish interiors studio Isern Serra for eyewear brand Gigi Studios. Isern Serra was tasked with creating a holistic scheme for the 900-square-metre headquarters, occupying one floor of a building in the town of Sant Cugat del Vallès just north

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Be Studio punctuates Spanish apartment block with ceramic tiles and green blinds

March 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture practice Be Studio has created the Churruca apartment block in the coastal region of Maresme, which is organised around a four-storey internal courtyard. Influenced by the local Mediterranean vernacular and coastal climate, the apartment block has a cream-hued facade with balconies fronted by green blinds and ceramic tile detailing that enable the block to “blend with

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Lucas y Hernández Gil adds multi-use greenhouse to Madrid bungalow

March 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A renovated 1970s bungalow with “kitsch character” and a greenhouse that doubles as a living room feature in Casamontesa – a weekend home designed by Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil. The project began when a couple asked the studio to overhaul a single-storey house that was once part of a hotel complex on the

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Dezeen’s Pinterest roundup features 11 modern Spanish villas

February 19, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

As spring draws closer in the northern hemisphere, we round up 11 Spanish houses and villas from Dezeen’s Pinterest. Traditional Spanish villas and homes have been searched five times more than normal on Pinterest in the last few weeks. With almond blossom exploding across the south of the Iberian peninsula, we have rounded up striking

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Fran Silvestre Arquitectos references pathways for winding Sabater House in Spain

February 17, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante, which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site. Its slim volumes adapt to the site’s natural topography,

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Zooco Estudio resurrects “vestige of the past” for brutalist restaurant

February 5, 2024 Shona Jackson 0

Madrid-based Zooco Estudio has created a striking restaurant within the Cantabrian Maritime Museum in Santander, Spain, that celebrates the building’s brutalist architecture. The restaurant is set within a dramatic vault of concrete paraboloids that were unearthed during the renovation, while a slatted timber ceiling pays homage to the area’s shipbuilding legacy. Overlooking the tranquil waters

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Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House

February 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. Rumeu and his wife, the Madrid-born artist Beatriz Dubois, decided to move to the architect’s home city for work after living for

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