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MIAS references spider anatomy for foyer of Spanish healthcare centre

July 17, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

A radial wooden structure reminiscent of the body of a spider defines this foyer for a therapeutic healthcare centre, completed by architecture studio MIAS in the hills of Catalonia. Located in the town of Arenys de Munt, the teal-coloured pavilion is designed by MIAS as a flexible and “domestic” space where family members, patients and doctors can

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Núñez Ribot pairs cork with mass timber at Casa Pádel in Madrid

July 5, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Spanish architects Teo Nuñez and Almudena Ribot have built the Casa Pádel apartment block in Madrid, combining a cross-laminated timber structure with cork cladding. The block of five apartments, one of which is lived in by the Núñez Ribot Arquitectos founders, occupies a sunken site in Aravaca that previously served as a padel tennis court.

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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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FRPO creates “cathedral of energy” with translucent polycarbonate tower

June 9, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio FRPO has designed DH Palencia, a thermal power plant in Spain consisting of a concrete base topped by a lantern-like building and an adjacent tower. Located in Palencia, the 1,960-square-metre building is the focal point of the city’s new heating network. It converts heat energy into electricity using renewable sources, including biomass from

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Stepped villa in Menorca by Nomo Studio offers “an abundance of textures”

May 21, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of white-plaster volumes steps down a hillside to frame views of the Mediterranean Sea at Bundle House, a villa in Menorca by architecture practice Nomo Studio. In response to a sloping, awkwardly-shaped site, Nomo Studio divided the home into nine distinct blocks that are organised to create small pockets of outdoor space and a

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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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H3O creates “unpredictable” zigzagging interiors for lightning-struck home

May 10, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, transformed by Barcelona studio H3O to reference a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago. The one-storey Relámpago House is a former barn with a white-painted barrel-vaulted ceiling in the Spanish town of Sant Just Desvern on the

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Masquespacio founders create home and office where “everything revolves around play”

May 8, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have transformed a traditional Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed home and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis movement. Creative and life partners Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse renovated the 1920s villa, which was once a farmhouse on the outskirts of Valencia, to create a

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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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