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Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona

April 13, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona, created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. MIAS and Coll-Leclerc

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Kauh restores historic Spanish park to be a “palimpsest of its evolution”

April 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. Located at the base of a gorge surrounded by Almería’s 11th-century Jayrán Wall, Kauh won a 2019 competition to reimagine the historic

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Life Reusing Posidonia was a prototype for “hyper-local architecture” on the Balearic islands

April 2, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Next in our Social Housing Revival series we examine Life Reusing Posidonia – a group of 14 dwellings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera designed by architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute using locally sourced materials such as dried seagrass. Completed in 2017, Life Reusing Posidonia is a multi-award winning project consisting of 14

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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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