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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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Isern Serra designs Barcelona modelling agency as a “landscape” for taking photos

June 24, 2024 Natasha Levy 0

Pale walls, sculptural furnishings and sunken plant features provide a striking backdrop to photoshoots taking place inside this Barcelona modelling agency, devised by Spanish studio Isern Serra. The Blow Models office occupies the ground floor of a 1920s building and its adjoining warehouse in Barcelona’s Sant Martí neighbourhood. Isern Serra designed its pared-back interior as

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IAAC creates mobile Moca dwelling with openable fabric facades

May 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Students and researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have constructed a mobile home in Barcelona using wood from Collserola Natural Park. Called Moca, an abbreviation of Mobile Catalyst, the prototype two-person dwelling is mounted on a trailer and designed to be easily transported by car. It is built from cross-laminated timber (CLT)

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Miriam Barrio creates “organic and natural” interiors for Barcelona curly hair salon

May 16, 2024 Douglas Jardim 0

Barcelona-based Miriam Barrio Studios has transformed the interiors of a modernist building into Curly Lab, a curly hair salon incorporating curved shapes and copper-toned surfaces. Located at the base of a gothic and modernist building designed by Catalan architect Enric Sagnier in 1895, Curly Lab is situated at Diputación in the Eixample district of Barcelona.

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Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona

April 13, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona, created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. MIAS and Coll-Leclerc

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Barcelona’s “best projects are being done in the field of social housing”

March 27, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

As part of our Social Housing Revival series, we spotlight the city of Barcelona, which is shrugging off the legacy of fascism by rapidly ramping up its supply of social housing. In June 2015, veteran housing activist Ada Colau became the first female mayor of Barcelona. She had risen to prominence clashing with police as

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Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House

February 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. Rumeu and his wife, the Madrid-born artist Beatriz Dubois, decided to move to the architect’s home city for work after living for

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External Reference uses 3D printing to create organic displays for La Manso store in Barcelona

December 21, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

3D-printed shelving structures informed by Catalan-modernist buildings were used for shelving in this store designed by External Reference for a Spanish jewellery brand. Experimental jewellery designer Adriana Manso asked Carmelo Zappulla’s studio External Reference to develop a suitably unusual interior concept for her first physical store in the city. The project involved designing a window display

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CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona

November 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Spanish architecture studio CRÜ has remodelled an old public laundry into a house and studio for a couple in west Barcelona. Called La Clara, the project in the district of Les Corts is shortlisted in the house renovation category of the Dezeen Awards 2023. To reconfigure the old ground floor laundry into a home, CRÜ

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