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Family home by Hiha Studio features double-height rooms and rammed earth walls

April 22, 2019 Ali Morris 0
House renovation by Hiha Studio

Barcelona-based Hiha Studio removed floors and inserted lofty voids to create this light-filled family home in a northeastern Spanish village. Originally two separate houses connected by rammed earth party-walls, the house is made up of two narrow rectangular plots that measure around five metres wide and between 15 and 30 metres in length. Located in

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Laura Álvarez Architecture transforms stone ruin into zero-energy Villa Slow

April 19, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Villa Slow by Laura Alvarez

This holiday home in Spain by Laura Álvarez Architecture is built from the walls of a stone ruin and generates more energy that it consumes. Named Villa Slow, the dwelling replaces a former ruin found in rolling hills in the natural park of Valles Pasiegos. It is designed to have minimal impact on its environment, and

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Vertical garden and sleeping pod feature in small Madrid apartment

April 16, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Husos Arquitectos Madrid apartment

Spanish studio Husos Arquitectos has created a 46-square-metre plywood-lined apartment in Madrid for a young doctor and his pet bulldog. The apartment is located within a 1960s housing-block in Madrid’s Acacias neighbourhood, which is described by the architects as a modern take on the traditional Spanish corrala – blocks of flats linked by external corridors

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Wood and bright colours define Spanish youth centre by B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Germina Foundation by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a “comforting” place. B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed the centre in the Catalonian municipality of Badalona for the Germina Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion. The centre occupies

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Nook Architects completes shared workspace The Room in Barcelona

March 28, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
The Room shared workspace by Nook Architects in Barcelona

Nook Architects has used rosy-pink walls and wooden joinery to foster a warm and inviting atmosphere inside this small-scale co-working space in Barcelona. Located in Barcelona’s El Poblenou neighbourhood, The Room is a shared office for just 14 people that’s been designed to suit a variety of work styles. Its an offshoot of Zamness, another co-working

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Steyn Studio’s concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Sierra House by Steyn Studio

London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge. With a narrow, 6.8-metre-wide site and strict planning restrictions, Sierra House is Steyn Studio’s reinterpretation of the typical townhouse typology of the surrounding neighbourhood. Due to local height restrictions the roof could not peak

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Azab adds space-saving details to domed attic apartment in Bilbao

March 16, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of 100.60 Apartment, designed by Azab

Architecture studio Azab has added under-floor storage and bright yellow walls to make this formerly characterless attic apartment in Bilbao, Spain, suitable for a young family of four. Formerly host to a series of conventional living spaces, the 100.60 Apartment has been revamped using clever storage systems and brightly coloured surfaces. Its owners – a married

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Nomo Studio creates pixelated villa in Menorca

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Villa Catwalk by Nomo Studio in Menorca

Barcelona-based Nomo Studio has arranged a collection of bright white cubes to create Villa Catwalk on the island the the Mediterranean island of Menorca. The house in Coves Noves occupies two piles of bright white cubes placed on either side of a 28-metre-long central block, called the catwalk. Part external terrace and part internal, the long catwalk block

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Drone photography captures Barcelona’s architectural symmetry from above

March 13, 2019 India Block 0

Hungarian photographer Márton Mogyorósy has used a drone to capture aerial shots of buildings around Barcelona, including Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s Walden 7. The photography series, called Barcelona from above, captures the Instagram-friendly symmetry of the city’s architecture. Included in the series are shots of Bofill and his collective Taller de Arquitectura’s Walden 7 apartment

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Arquitectura-G builds modern house behind crumbling old stone walls

March 10, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Single family house in Palau-Sator by Arquitectura-G

Architecture office Arquitectura-G has slotted a new house within the aged stone walls of a ruin in the medieval village of Palau-Sator, Spain. The plot in the centre of the village in the Empordà region near Girona previously contained a stone house that had deteriorated into a state of ruin. Barcelona-based office Arquitectura-G revived the site while respecting

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