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Ceramic surfaces define Kengo Kuma-designed Camper store in Barcelona

January 30, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Camper store in Barcelona, designed by Kengo Kuma

Concave tiles form a scallop pattern across the walls of this Barcelona shop, which Kengo Kuma has designed for footwear brand Camper. Decked out almost entirely in ceramics, this is the second Camper retail space to be designed Kengo Kuma & Associates. Back in 2015 the Japanese architect’s studio developed the interiors of the footwear brand’s Milan

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YLAB Arquitectos creates holiday apartment with indoor garden and hidden kitchen

January 26, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Argentona Apartment, designed by YLAB Arquitectos

Spanish-German firm YLAB Arquitectos has transformed a gloomy Barcelona apartment into a light-filled holiday home with plenty of hidden storage. Located in Barcelona’s Gracia district, the 90-square-metre Argentona Apartment was previously split into six rooms. As a result, it lacked daylight and had almost no connection with the outdoors. YLAB turned it into a one-bedroom

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Barcelona apartment by Cometa Architects takes cues from nearby marina

January 18, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Barcelona marina apartment, designed by Cometa Architects

Cement surfaces, wooden joinery, and copper detailing appear inside this Barcelona apartment, which Cometa Architects has designed to subtly draw upon maritime imagery. Described as a formally “introverted” space, the top-floor apartment has been revamped by local studio Cometa Architects with industrial materials that reflect Barcelona’s nearby Olympic Marina. “[The apartment] has been radically remodelled

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Porthole in Barcelona apartment gives glimpses of bathroom from living area

December 19, 2018 Natasha Levy 0
Font 6 apartment by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

A porthole offers a cheeky view into the shower cubicle of this Barcelona apartment, which Colombo and Serboli Architecture has revamped for one of its founders. The Font 6 apartment is set within a 20th-century residential block close to Barcelona’s renowned Sagrada Familia church and belongs to Andrea Serboli – the co-founder of Colombo and

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Barcelona’s Orvay bar takes design cues from winemaking

November 26, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Vine-green walls and Merlot hued mirrors appear inside this Barcelona bar, which Spanish studio Isern Serra has designed in reference to the process of making wine. Named Orvay, the bar has an extensive variety of wines, which served as a starting point for local studio Isern Serra design for the bar’s interiors. It developed a colour scheme inspired by

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Metric turns bomb-blasted banana warehouse in Barcelona into triplex apartment

October 30, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Crumbling brick surfaces hint at the rich past of this triplex apartment in Barcelona, designed by architecture studio Metric with arch-shaped openings and warm oak floors. The three-floor apartment is set within a former warehouse in Barcelona’s up-and-coming Sant Antoni neighbourhood. Originally built in the early 1900s, the building was first used to store bananas

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Sagrada Familia agrees €36 million payment after building for 136 years with no permit

October 23, 2018 India Block 0

Barcelona’s Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia has agreed to pay a lump sum to the city authorities, after 136 years of construction without a building permit. Work started on the UNESCO-listed basilica in 1882, but it never received an official permit from the local council. It has now agreed to pay €36 million (£31 million) to the

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Raul Sanchez Architects uses black and white to defines spaces in Barcelona apartment

October 16, 2018 Claire Bingham 0

Raul Sanchez Architects has refurbished the Sardenya Apartment in Barcelona to create an open plan space with different functions defined by black and white colouring. Raul Sanchez Architects renovated the residential apartment on the fourth floor of a 1970s building in Barcelona to create a two-bedroom flat with a flexible layout for a single man. The architect removed all but

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