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Lucas y Hernández-Gil uses extreme colour blocking in Naked and Famous bar

January 22, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil has used reflective materials, neon lighting and sunset colours to create intense interiors for a bar in Seville. Called Naked and Famous, the bar contains a series of rooms that explore extremely different moods, thanks to varying colours, materials and lighting conditions. According to architect Cristina Domínguez Lucas, co-founder of

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Rambla Climate-House shows how suburban homes can support biodiversity

January 13, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Spanish architects Andrés Jaque and Miguel Mesa del Castillo have built a climate-conscious house that restores the drought-tolerant ecology of a site on the outskirts of Murcia. Rambla Climate-House is raised up on stilts above a wild landscape, designed to preserve the site’s soil humidity and rejuvenate its biodiversity. The fissured topography is modelled on the ravines –

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Andrés Jaque designs Reggio School “to become a multiverse”

January 3, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Spanish architect Andrés Jaque’s Office for Political Innovation has completed a school near Madrid that aims to be as colourful and playful as a child’s imagination. Located in Encinar de los Reyes, on the northern outskirts of the Spanish capital, Reggio School is a six-storey building featuring cork walls, concrete arches, porthole windows and zigzagging

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Wood, Plants, And Geometric Patterns Create The Design Character Of This Takeaway Shop

January 2, 2023 Erin 0

Interior design firm Manuel García Asociados has completed El Fógón (“The Stove” in Spanish), a takeaway food shop that’s located in Elche in the Province of Alicante. The exterior of the shop includes a white square tiled facade, black window frames, and a green accent above that provides a background for the logo. Inside, the […]

Parramon + Tahull adds tiled floors and bespoke joinery to refurbished Barcelona apartment

December 27, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Barcelona architecture studio Parramon + Tahull has renovated a traditional apartment in the city’s Gracia neighbourhood, adding birch plywood joinery and ceramic tiling to complement the building’s original features. The apartment is home to a family of four, which has lived there for several years and wanted to carry out a significant overhaul of the

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Casa Olivar is a Madrid apartment designed as a “sensorial refuge”

December 23, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Designers Matteo Ferrari and Carlota Gallo have transformed a traditional two-storey apartment in Madrid, Spain, into a tranquil home for themselves featuring a pared-back palette of natural materials and crafted details. Casa Olivar is located in a typical corrala – a type of apartment building found in the old parts of Madrid, where housing units

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OHLAB celebrates historical details at Can Santacilia apartments in Palma de Mallorca

December 16, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office OHLAB has renovated a historical apartment building in Palma de Mallorca introducing contemporary elements including a meandering wooden walkway that contrast with the original features. Can Santacilia is a 3,300-square-metre residential development containing 15 apartments and common areas distributed across two adjoining buildings in the heart of Palma de Mallorca’s old town. Parts

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Design + Health exhibition in Valencia highlights importance of design in the health sector

December 15, 2022 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: exhibited as part of World Design Capital Valencia 2022, the Design + Health exhibition showcases the influence of design on advancements in science and medicine. Presented at the Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity (MuVIM) in Spain, the exhibition aims to illustrate how design has been used in the health sector to improve people’s

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Wabi-sabi philosophy leads revamp of Palau apartment in Barcelona

December 9, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Local studio Colombo and Serboli Architecture has completed a clean and contemporary renovation of an apartment in Barcelona, spotlighting some of its “imperfect” original features. The Palau apartment is situated a stone’s throw from the city’s Palau de la Música concert hall and backs onto a cluster of secluded courtyards. Its owner, an Italian fashion

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Wood screens and green courtyards define apartment block in Mallorca by OHLAB

December 1, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Sliding panels of thin wooden slats provide shade and ventilation to the interiors of this apartment block in Palma on the island of Mallorca, designed by local architecture studio OHLAB. Located on the popular Paseo Mallorca, the block contains 15 apartments with a basement spa and gym for residents, organised around a courtyard and private

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