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Plantea Estudio plays with light and shadow for Acid cafe interior

January 30, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio Plantea Estudio has completed a cafe and bakery inside an early 20th-century building in Madrid, contrasting the original dark tones of the interior with modern steel surfaces. Taking over a former gem store on a busy street in the Justicia district, the Acid cafe and bakeshop was designed to provide a place for

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Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park

January 24, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. Named Casa Eñe, the home is located half an hour’s drive from the Spanish capital and was designed for clients who wanted a home that would have a minimal impact

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Madrid home designed to reinforce social networks for ageing couple

January 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels define this home in Madrid, Spain, designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects. Designed for an ageing couple with increasing mobility difficulties, Beyond-the-family Kin by Ignacio G Galán and Alvaro M Fidalgo and Arantza Ozaeta of OF Architects seeks to encourage social connections in

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Ibiza Interiors turns dry-stone stables into flexible guesthouse Campo Atelier

January 9, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

A 200-year-old stable building in the mountains of Ibiza has been converted into a vacation home by local studio Ibiza Interiors. The Atelier is one of four dwellings that make up Campo – a group of rentable guesthouses set in a finca, or farmstead, in the island’s Morna Valley. Ibiza Interiors founder Jurjen Van Hulzen has renovated

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Fluted concrete encloses Menorca holiday home by Nomo Studio

January 7, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Textured concrete designed to withstand the Mediterranean climate defines Shift House, a tiered holiday home by Nomo Studio on the island of Menorca. Shift House is formed of displaced rectangular volumes built into the hillside, finished with a facade of alternating striated concrete walls and continuous window bands. The home’s rough concrete facades draw on

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OHLAB encloses Mallorcan duplex apartments with dynamic shutters

January 4, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Folding, lattice shutters form the dynamic facade of Paral·lel, a residential complex in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, designed by local architecture studio OHLAB. Located within the quiet residential neighbourhood of Bonanova, the complex contains 12 duplex apartments, split into six ground floor units topped by six penthouse units. The building’s wooden facade is punctured by

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External Reference uses 3D printing to create organic displays for La Manso store in Barcelona

December 21, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

3D-printed shelving structures informed by Catalan-modernist buildings were used for shelving in this store designed by External Reference for a Spanish jewellery brand. Experimental jewellery designer Adriana Manso asked Carmelo Zappulla’s studio External Reference to develop a suitably unusual interior concept for her first physical store in the city. The project involved designing a window display

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Baldó Arquitectura references Japanese design for Spanish pool house

December 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Bamboo and an overhanging roof characterise Godai Pavilion, a pool house that Spanish studio Baldó Arquitectura has created for a home in rural Cantabria. Located in northern Spain, the outbuilding is designed in line with the local climate and aims to showcase natural materials and Japanese design details. Baldó Arquitectura positioned the pool house to

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BABELstudio creates “archetypal” woodland cabin in the Basque Country

November 3, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice BABELstudio has completed Aralar Cottage, a black wooden cabin in the Basque Country with a hinged side that opens the interior to the surrounding forest. Surrounded by the lush vegetation of Sierra de Aralar, the cabin was designed by BABELstudio for a couple based in Bilbao who enjoy carpentry and hiking. It has

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CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona

November 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Spanish architecture studio CRÜ has remodelled an old public laundry into a house and studio for a couple in west Barcelona. Called La Clara, the project in the district of Les Corts is shortlisted in the house renovation category of the Dezeen Awards 2023. To reconfigure the old ground floor laundry into a home, CRÜ

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