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YLAB Arquitectos creates holiday apartment with indoor garden and hidden kitchen

January 26, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Argentona Apartment, designed by YLAB Arquitectos

Spanish-German firm YLAB Arquitectos has transformed a gloomy Barcelona apartment into a light-filled holiday home with plenty of hidden storage. Located in Barcelona’s Gracia district, the 90-square-metre Argentona Apartment was previously split into six rooms. As a result, it lacked daylight and had almost no connection with the outdoors. YLAB turned it into a one-bedroom

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Barcelona apartment by Cometa Architects takes cues from nearby marina

January 18, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Barcelona marina apartment, designed by Cometa Architects

Cement surfaces, wooden joinery, and copper detailing appear inside this Barcelona apartment, which Cometa Architects has designed to subtly draw upon maritime imagery. Described as a formally “introverted” space, the top-floor apartment has been revamped by local studio Cometa Architects with industrial materials that reflect Barcelona’s nearby Olympic Marina. “[The apartment] has been radically remodelled

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Francesc Rifé Studio sticks to dark tones for Valencia’s Merkato restaurant

January 11, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Merkato restaurant, designed by Francesc Rifé Studio

Coal-coloured surfaces and blackened furnishings provide the dark interiors of this market-style restaurant in Valencia, designed by Francesc Rifé Studio. Francesc Rifé’s Barcelona-based studio chose almost exclusively dark-toned surfaces in its design for Merkato, which set within a former aircraft hanger. Located in Valencia’s buzzing Eixample district, the lofty space is described as a gastronomic market. It plays host

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Lucas y Hernández-Gil retains original details in revamp of rural Spanish guesthouse

January 9, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Casa Villalba de los Barros, designed by Lucas y Hernández-Gil

Humble mortar walls and clay floors are paired with original arched ceilings and decorative doorways inside this family-run guesthouse in Spain, which has been revamped by Lucas y Hernández-Gil. Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil overhauled the property in La Hermandad de Villalba to create a series of rustic living spaces that honour the original architecture and outdoor

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Nacho Martin creates colourful test lab for creatives in Madrid

January 9, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of the IED Innovation Lab by Nacho Martin

Exposed computer hardware and toy construction models informed the aesthetic of this innovation lab in Madrid, which architecture studio Nacho Martin has created for the Istituto Europeo di Design. The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Innovation Lab in the southwestern suburb of Carabanchel by Nacho Martin features a series of colourful yet practical workstations that allow the

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Kaikaya sushi restaurant in Valencia fuses Japanese and Brazilian design

December 29, 2018 Ali Morris 0
Kaikaya restaurant by Masquespacio

Creative consultancy Masquespacio has completed a tropical sushi restaurant in Valencia, Spain, that mixes Japanese and Brazilian-inspired design elements. Called Kaikaya, the restaurant’s plant-filled green and maroon interior celebrates the Brazilian-Japanese food culture that has been created in the hundred years since Japanese immigrants first started to arrive in Brazil. Now home to the largest

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Porthole in Barcelona apartment gives glimpses of bathroom from living area

December 19, 2018 Natasha Levy 0
Font 6 apartment by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

A porthole offers a cheeky view into the shower cubicle of this Barcelona apartment, which Colombo and Serboli Architecture has revamped for one of its founders. The Font 6 apartment is set within a 20th-century residential block close to Barcelona’s renowned Sagrada Familia church and belongs to Andrea Serboli – the co-founder of Colombo and

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