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Barcelona to convert a third of central streets into car-free green spaces

November 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Aerial view of Barcelona's grid-like Eixample district

Barcelona’s city council has announced its plans to transform one in three streets in its Eixample district into green, car-free public spaces to tackle air pollution. Under the scheme, 21 streets and 21 road junctions will be converted into small parks and public squares – creating 33.4 hectares of land “where the pedestrian and the

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Game On’s neon-filled exhibition design paid homage to 80s video games

October 23, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

LED arches in Game On's exhibition design by Smart & Green Design

Spanish practice Smart & Green Design re-designed the Barbican’s touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s. The retrospective, which is reportedly the largest international exhibition to explore the history of video games, spans more than 400 collector’s

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Old Spanish workshop converted into tactile family home by Nomos

October 14, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Inside of La Nave apartment in Madrid by Nomos

Tactile bricks and pinewood partitions decorate the La Nave apartment, which Nomos has slotted into the concrete shell of a disused workshop in Madrid, Spain. La Nave was developed by Nomos as a family home for two of its partners, Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo, who head up its Spanish office. The project has since

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Minimal Fantasy holiday apartment in Madrid is almost completely pink

September 30, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Bedrooms of Minimal Fantasy, a pink apartment in Madrid

Patricia Bustos Studio channelled “aesthetic madness” to create the striking bright-pink interior of this rentable apartment at the heart of Madrid, Spain. Locally-based Patricia Bustos Studio applied 12 different shades of pink throughout the Minimal Fantasy apartment, which is meant to offer a bolder take on the typical holiday rental. “We wanted to do something

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The Olive Houses are off-grid retreats hidden in Mallorca’s mountains

September 3, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

The Olive Houses in Mallorca designed by Mar Plus Ask

Craggy boulders jut through walls in these off-grid guesthouses that architecture studio Mar Plus Ask has built in Mallorca, Spain, for creatives in need of a quiet escape. Tucked away high up in Mallorca’s Tramuntana mountains, The Olive Houses are run year-round by Mar Plus Ask as a silent refuge where solo architects, writers and

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ON-A proposes covering Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium with Nou Parc

August 26, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Nou Parc park at Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona by ON-A Architecture

Barcelona studio ON-A has envisioned a 26-hectare park in the city that would rise up to cover FC Barcelona football stadium to the west. Named Nou Parc, as a direct reference to the Nou Camp stadium’s name, the forested park would cover the venue along with the surrounding car parks and other smaller sports venues.

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Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill’s “delightfully confusing” La Muralla Roja

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill's La Muralla Roja

Architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss has captured the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in his latest photo series. Weiss decided to photograph the Calpe housing estate La Muralla Roja, which translates into English as the Red Wall, after seeing the building in a monograph published to celebrate Bofill’s

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Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill’s “delightfully confusing” La Muralla Roja

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss has captured the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in his latest photo series. Weiss decided to photograph the Calpe housing estate La Muralla Roja, which translates into English as the Red Wall, after seeing the building in a monograph published to celebrate Bofill’s

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John Pawson and David Chipperfield design houses for Ibiza community Sabina

August 4, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

A number of leading architects and designers such as John Pawson, David Chipperfield and Marcio Kogan have unveiled residential designs for a development in Ibiza. Called Sabina, the private community is currently under construction on Ibiza’s west coast. The project spans 17 hectares and is led by British developer Anton Bilton, who is the co-founder

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John Pawson and David Chipperfield design houses for Ibiza community Sabina

August 4, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

A number of leading architects and designers such as John Pawson, David Chipperfield and Marcio Kogan have unveiled residential designs for a development in Ibiza. Called Sabina, the private community is currently under construction on Ibiza’s west coast. The project spans 17 hectares and is led by British developer Anton Bilton, who is the co-founder

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