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Arquitectura-G installs bright red family home on top of garage

May 9, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Red living room in House in Sant Antoni de Vilamajor by Arquitectura-G

Red is the colour of choice for this compact family house on the outskirts of Barcelona, designed by local studio Arquitectura-G to sit on top of a garage. House in Sant Antoni de Vilamajor is a 250-square-metre, single-storey home located in a village to the northeast of the city. Red surfaces feature both inside and

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Marià Castelló creates geometric three-volume home on Formentera

April 30, 2021 James Parkes 0
Es Pou by Maria Castello

Spanish architecture studio Marià Castelló has built a three-volume home with ceramic vaulted ceilings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera. Located on an agricultural plot in a rural area of Formentera – one of the Balearic Islands – Es Pou is a single-storey two-bedroom home. Built on the western side of the site, the south-facing

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The Voxel is a “quarantine cabin” made entirely from locally sourced materials

April 14, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A cabin with charred wood cladding

A team of students and researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have designed and built a cabin for self-isolation, using wood harvested from within one kilometre of its site. The project was developed as part of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s (IAAC) Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB)

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Five notable projects by emerging Spanish architecture collective Lacol

April 8, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
La Comunal workspaces in Barcelona

From a converted ship-sail factory to a housing cooperative built from cross-laminated timber, here’s a look at five significant projects by the emerging architecture collective Lacol. The 14-strong group of Spanish architects (above) came together as students in Barcelona in 2009 and today operate as an architecture cooperative that strives for social and environmental justice

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Delavegacanolasso creates prefabricated Tini home-office cabin

March 28, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Tini cabin by Delavegacanolasso

Spanish architecture studio Delavegacanolasso has created a modular, prefabricated cabin that can be ordered online and delivered on the back of a truck to act as a home office, weekend retreat or even a small dwelling. Called Tini, the compact unit arrives assembled and ready to be placed into a prepared plot. Measuring anywhere between

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Estudio ji Arquitectos creates photographer’s retreat in Spanish stables

March 28, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Estudio ji Arquitectos creates photographer's retreat in Spanish stables

Spanish studio Estudio ji Arquitectos has converted a stable block at a country house near Benidorm, Spain, into a retreat for its photographer owner. The studio renovated the 30-year-old stables into a multipurpose space for the home’s owner that had no fixed purpose but would act as a retreat alongside the neighbouring fields. “I hope

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Azab splits Spanish farmhouse into two interconnected modern homes

March 25, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Re-House farm house refurbishment in Bilbao by Azab

Architecture studio Azab has revamped a farmhouse on the edge of the town of Loiu in Spain and divided it into homes for a woman and her parents. Designed as homes for two generations of the same family, Azab split the former farmhouse in Bizkaia in the north of Spain horizontally. An apartment for the

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Anna and Eugeni Bach create Barcelona apartment building with bright yellow balconies

March 13, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture studio Anna and Eugeni Bach has designed Seven Lives, an apartment block in Barcelona that references its surroundings but has been given a playful modern touch with vibrant balconies and an adaptable layout. The building was designed by the Barcelona-based studio to conserve and capture the essence of the neighbourhood, while also adding a

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Foster + Partners to transform abandoned gas plant in Madrid into offices

March 2, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
Timber-framed workspaces inside an old gas plant

A vacant natural-gas plant in Madrid, Spain is set to be overhauled by Foster + Partners to create the plant-filled and timber-lined Acciona Ombú offices. The abandoned industrial building, constructed in 1905 by Spanish architect Luis de Landecho, will be retrofitted with 10,000 square-metres of workspace for the sustainable infrastructure company Acciona. Foster + Partners’ overhaul,

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Roberto Conte photographs Madrid’s brutalist architecture

February 25, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Top of Torres Blancas tower, Madrid

Roberto Conte’s latest photography series explores Madrid’s brutalist architecture to draw attention to a style not usually associated with the Spanish capital. The photographer, whose work often depicts concrete modernist and brutalist buildings, captured a selection of Madrileño brutalism that includes the Torres Blancas by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíz and a Le Corbusier-informed church by Cecilio Sanchez-Robles

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