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White-washed Mondrian Ibiza hotel perches above Cala Llonga bay

September 27, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Spanish studios Beades Architects and Cuarto Interior have revived a 1970s hotel property overlooking a bay in Ibiza, using local materials and mid-century furniture to transform its interiors. The Mondrian Ibiza is perched on a steep hillside above the beach and turquoise waters of Cala Llonga, on the Balearic Island’s east coast. “The building was

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Bear Architects designs Zubitegi Park in Spain as “living infrastructure”

September 21, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

An open steel grid topped with green barrel-vaulted roofs frames this park in Spain, which has been completed by Bilbao studio Bear Architects. Named Zubitegi Park, the project occupies a challenging plot on a former water treatment plant in Mallabia with a dramatic change in height and a poor connection to the nearby road. The

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Gold-leaf wall divides renovated Barcelona apartment by Raúl Sánchez Architects

September 10, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Raúl Sánchez has renovated a flat in a typical Barcelona apartment building, adding built-in cabinetry and furnishings in hues that echo the original mosaic flooring. The 85-square-metre flat was created following the subdivision of a larger apartment with aspects towards the Carrer d’Enric Granados on one side and a large internal courtyard on the

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Villain House is a concrete replica of an old Barcelona townhouse

August 29, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local studio Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has replaced a dilapidated townhouse in Barcelona with a concrete home that mimics its original footprint. Named Villain House, the home incorporates the existing front facade, which Architecture Office Claudia Raurell said was the only salvageable part of the structure. The new volume has a blocky, straw-coloured concrete structure

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Stone ruins turned into Spanish home by H Arquitectes

August 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The crumbling stone walls of an old farmhouse formed the starting point for Casa 1627, a house in Spain completed by local studio H Arquitectes. In the agricultural landscape of Pals in Girona’s Baix Empordà, all that was left of the Mas Geli farmhouse was two outer cyclopean masonry walls supported by large buttresses. H

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“There is a tipping point of too much exposed concrete” says commenter

August 16, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Barcelona with “robust and monolithic” walls formed of tactile poured concrete completed by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. H Arquitectes created a skylit, triple-height atrium at the home’s centre that is framed by concrete columns and balconies above. “There is a tipping point of too

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Textured layers of poured concrete enclose Barcelona home by H Arquitectes

August 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio H Arquitectes has completed Casa 1736, a house in Barcelona with “robust and monolithic” walls formed of tactile poured concrete. The challenge of the design was to provide the three-storey home with sufficient ventilation and daylight, due to its deep plot bordered by neighbouring buildings. To achieve this, H Arquitectes created a skylit,

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David Closes adds jagged metal entrance to museum in Catalonia

August 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A jagged form clad in perforated aluminium marks the Baroque Museum of Catalonia entrance in Manresa, Spain, which has been updated by local architect David Closes. The new pavilion is one of several interventions improving access to the museum, which occupies a former 17th-century Jesuit college building alongside Manresa’s City History Museum. Closes’ design sits

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GMP Architekten tranforms Santiago Bernabéu into “sparkling” Madrid landmark

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed its remodelling of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium for Real Madrid, wrapping the exterior in sinuous metal louvres. Home to the Real Madrid football team, GMP Architekten collaborated with Spanish architecture studios L35 and Ribas & Ribas to transform the stadium into a multifunctional arena with an underground retractable pitch. Aiming to create

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