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El Departamento designs Barcelona eyewear store as a “challenging visual exercise”

August 13, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Slight variations in tone and texture differentiate surfaces inside the PJ Lobster glasses store in Barcelona, which Spanish interiors studio El Departamento has finished entirely in green. The shop in the El Born district features walls, floors and stuccoed ceilings all covered in soft, tranquil tones of seafoam green, creating an immersive experience designed to challenge

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Isern Serra turns renderings into reality to form pink Moco Concept Store in Barcelona

June 15, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Isern Serra has transformed a computer-generated image by digital artist Six N Five into a rose-coloured retail space for the Moco Museum in Barcelona. Situated in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood, the Moco Museum exclusively exhibits the work of modern artists such as Damien Hirst, Kaws, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons. The institution’s eponymous

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Raúl Sanchez Architects divides Barcelona apartment with 21-metre-long wooden wall

May 30, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

A lengthy walnut-panelled wall runs through the bright white living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, renovated by local studio Raúl Sanchez Architects. The Girona Street apartment is set within a 19th-century building in Barcelona’s affluent Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood and belongs to a design-savvy couple with two young children. Prior to the renovation, the apartment

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FLORA is a mass-timber research pavilion in Barcelona’s forest canopy

May 24, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A team of students and researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has built a hillside timber pavilion with hanging walkways nestled in the trees. Called FLORA, an acronym for Forest Lab for Observational Research and Analysis, the pavilion is a scientific facility that will allow a researcher to live and work in

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Office for Strategic Spaces revitalises historic Barcelona apartment block

May 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio Office for Strategic Spaces has refurbished a 19th-century housing block in Barcelona, unlocking a previously neglected yard space with a new public courtyard linked by criss-crossing metal walkways. The block, called La Carboneria, sits within Barcelona’s Eixample district, known for its famous gridded urban plan designed by Ildefons Cedrá. During the design of

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H Arquitectes transforms 19th-century Barcelona terrace with brick extension

April 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Spanish studio H Arquitectes has converted a small 19th-century dwelling into a spacious family home in Barcelona named House 1616. Arranged across three levels, the terraced home has been transformed from a single-storey building with two new brick levels that draw upon the building’s original design. Located on a dense street in the Spanish city, House

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Energy-saving 10K House in Barcelona is a “labyrinth that multiplies perspectives”

March 17, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Spanish studio Takk took cues from snugly stacked Russian dolls for the interior renovation of this Barcelona apartment, which features rooms nestled inside each other to maximise insulation. Called 10K House, the 50-square-metre apartment was renovated by Takk using a material budget of only 10,000 euros with the aim of updating the home to be

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Isern Serra creates pared-back office “with seemingly surreal details” for Andrés Reisinger

January 27, 2023 Alice Finney 0

Spanish architecture and interior design studio Isern Serra kept to a material palette of concrete, quartz and stainless steel to create this pared-back office for Reisinger Studio Located in the Poblenou neighbourhood in Barcelona, digital artist Andrés Reisinger’s studio is surrounded by several other creative’s offices and is designed to reflect the artist’s minimalist, dreamlike style. “The

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Parramon + Tahull adds tiled floors and bespoke joinery to refurbished Barcelona apartment

December 27, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Barcelona architecture studio Parramon + Tahull has renovated a traditional apartment in the city’s Gracia neighbourhood, adding birch plywood joinery and ceramic tiling to complement the building’s original features. The apartment is home to a family of four, which has lived there for several years and wanted to carry out a significant overhaul of the

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Wabi-sabi philosophy leads revamp of Palau apartment in Barcelona

December 9, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Local studio Colombo and Serboli Architecture has completed a clean and contemporary renovation of an apartment in Barcelona, spotlighting some of its “imperfect” original features. The Palau apartment is situated a stone’s throw from the city’s Palau de la Música concert hall and backs onto a cluster of secluded courtyards. Its owner, an Italian fashion

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