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Sagrada Familia finally gets building permit after 137 years

June 10, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

Barcelona’s city authority has granted the Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia, which has been under construction since 1882, its first building permit. The UNESCO world heritage site now has an official permit from the local council that will allow the building to be completed. The announcement was made by Janet Sanz, Barcelona’s deputy mayor for ecology,

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Ceramic Shelves Cover The Walls Of This Camper Store In Barcelona

May 16, 2019 Erin 0

  Kengo Kuma and Associates has designed a new store in Barcelona, Spain, for their client, Camper, that has an eye-catching pattern on its walls, drawing the attention of passerbys.   Inside, the pattern on the walls is revealed to be made up of roof-tile like ceramic elements, that neatly complement each other. Inspired by […]

EMBT and Patricia Urquiola complete Maggie’s Barcelona at Sant Pau Hospital

May 15, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Kálida Sant Pau Centre by EMBT and Patricia Urqiuola in Barcelona, Spain

EMBT has completed a Maggie’s Centre for cancer care at an art nouveau-hospital in Barcelona, with interiors designed by Patricia Urquiola. Located in the grounds of the Sant Pau Hospital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Spain, the Kálida Sant Pau Centre is the first building created by the Maggie’s Centres charity in mainland Europe. It is distinguished

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Cadaval & Solà-Morales converts 19th-century theatre into spacious Barcelona home

May 9, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Cadaval & Solà-Morales The Theatre Barcelona

Aged brick walls and ceiling beams hint at the past lives of this building in Barcelona, which Cadaval & Solà-Morales has turned into a contemporary home. Named after its former life as a drama venue, The Theatre house has been overhauled by local studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales to feature lofty living and work spaces. The house

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Nook Architects completes shared workspace The Room in Barcelona

March 28, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
The Room shared workspace by Nook Architects in Barcelona

Nook Architects has used rosy-pink walls and wooden joinery to foster a warm and inviting atmosphere inside this small-scale co-working space in Barcelona. Located in Barcelona’s El Poblenou neighbourhood, The Room is a shared office for just 14 people that’s been designed to suit a variety of work styles. Its an offshoot of Zamness, another co-working

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Drone photography captures Barcelona’s architectural symmetry from above

March 13, 2019 India Block 0

Hungarian photographer Márton Mogyorósy has used a drone to capture aerial shots of buildings around Barcelona, including Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s Walden 7. The photography series, called Barcelona from above, captures the Instagram-friendly symmetry of the city’s architecture. Included in the series are shots of Bofill and his collective Taller de Arquitectura’s Walden 7 apartment

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CRÜ combines different terracotta textures in Barcelona apartment

March 9, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of La Odette apartment by Crü

Exposed brickwork, vaulted ceilings and terracotta floor tiles feature throughout this renovated Barcelona apartment by Spanish architecture studio CRÜ. The La Odette apartment was formerly a dark and cramped three-bedroom home located on the second floor of an apartment building that dates back to 1877. It has been transformed into a spacious two-bedroom residence with

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TAAB6 uncovers and restores original features in Barcelona townhouse renovation

March 5, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Exterior of Single House in Horta, designed by TAAB6

Barcelona studio TAAB6 has renovated a 1930s townhouse in the city’s Horta district, Casa JJA, to create a family home that merges contemporary and traditional features. TAAB6, which is led by architects Ivan Llach and Raquel Colacios, said the aim was to keep or recover as many as of the house’s original elements as possible, then create

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Iker Gil and Luftwerk emblazon Barcelona Pavilion with laser grid

February 20, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Geometry of Light installation at Barcelona Pavilion by Luftwerk and Iker Gil

Luftwerk and designer Iker Gil have projected a grid of red lasers onto Mies van der Rohe’s seminal Barcelona Pavilion to create the Geometry of Light installation. Media-artist duo Luftwerk collaborated with Mas Studio’s Iker Gil to create the light show, which took place during of Barcelona’s Llum BCN and Santa Eulàlia festival. Named Geometry of Light, the

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Archways appear throughout a Barcelona penthouse by PMAA

January 31, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of penthouse apartment designed by PMAA

Partitions punctuated with arched openings divide the living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, which has been overhauled by architecture studio PMAA. Situated on the top floor of a residential building in Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, the penthouse apartment has been updated by locally-based PMAA to feature fresh white surfaces and a sequence of vaulted partitions. They

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