Spain

Geometric forms and embossed details recall historic predecessors at Spanish psychiatric facility

December 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has modernised a 19th-century psychiatric centre in the Spanish city of Pamplona by adding a series of structures with gabled profiles that reference the forms of the existing buildings. The project represents the first stage of a masterplan by local studio Vaillo+Irigaray Architects to redevelop the healthcare facility, which occupies a large site with

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Geometric forms and embossed details recall historic predecessors at Spanish psychiatric facility

December 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has modernised a 19th-century psychiatric centre in the Spanish city of Pamplona by adding a series of structures with gabled profiles that reference the forms of the existing buildings. The project represents the first stage of a masterplan by local studio Vaillo+Irigaray Architects to redevelop the healthcare facility, which occupies a large site with

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Alicante apartment renovated by Diego López Fuster Arquitectura references Hay products

December 10, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

This apartment in Alicante has had its interior walls removed to create a bright and spacious living space punctuated by brightly coloured niches inspired by the palette used by Danish design brand Hay. A newly married couple asked Diego López Fuster Arquitectura to refurbish the derelict apartment in the Spanish city to create their home. They requested a combined

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Alicante apartment renovated by Diego López Fuster Arquitectura references Hay products

December 10, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

This apartment in Alicante has had its interior walls removed to create a bright and spacious living space punctuated by brightly coloured niches inspired by the palette used by Danish design brand Hay. A newly married couple asked Diego López Fuster Arquitectura to refurbish the derelict apartment in the Spanish city to create their home. They requested a combined

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Alicante apartment renovated by Diego López Fuster Arquitectura references Hay products

December 10, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

This apartment in Alicante has had its interior walls removed to create a bright and spacious living space punctuated by brightly coloured niches inspired by the palette used by Danish design brand Hay. A newly married couple asked Diego López Fuster Arquitectura to refurbish the derelict apartment in the Spanish city to create their home. They requested a combined

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Laura Ortín adds “aesthetically disobedient” extension to beachfront home in Spain

December 3, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This faceted extension added to a holiday residence in Spain’s Alicante region features plywood-lined interiors and a picture window angled to frame a view of a nearby watchtower. The owners of the property in the town of Torre de la Horadada commissioned architect Laura Ortín’s Murcia-based studio to design a two-storey extension for use by

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Spanish holiday home by YLAB Arquitectos frames coastal mountain views

November 26, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

Spanish firm YLAB Arquitectos has redeveloped a holiday home in Maresme, southeast Spain, to make the most of the coastal mountain-range views. According to studio co-founder Yolanda Yuste López, the Scandinavian client’s brief was to create a comfortable but luxurious holiday home that takes its cues from hotel design. It also needed to be able to

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Raúl Sánchez Architects creates duplex apartment with golden cubes at its centre

November 18, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has transformed two derelict apartments in downtown Barcelona into a spacious two-storey home, centred around a pair of double-height gold cubes. Located on the ground and first floors of a nondescript eight-storey block in the city’s Raval neighbourhood, the apartments measured 55 square metres each, but were severely run down. The brief

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Concrete portico provides sheltered outdoor space for pink brick house in Seville

November 13, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio Canales Lombardero designed this brick-clad house in Seville with a double-height concrete portico to connect its living spaces with the garden. The studio headed by Francisco González de Canales Ruiz and Nuria Alvarez Lombardero designed Perea Borobio House for a retired couple who needed a flexible space capable of accommodating visiting family. The

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Alejandro Valdivieso’s Casa Aljibe features curved living space built around an old well

November 13, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Alejandro Valdivieso has repurposed a former water cistern near Madrid, transforming it into the basement of a house with a glass facade that curves around the original well. Casa Aljibe, which translates as Cistern House, is situated in the suburban district of Alpedrete, northwest of the Spanish capital. The underground cistern was built early

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