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A house with a bright yellow facade features in today’s Dezeen Debate newsletter

February 17, 2022 Daria Casalini 0

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate, the new name for our Dezeen Weekly newsletter, features a house with a bright yellow facade. Commenters are wowed by the Spanish house, which was designed by studio MACH in Barcelona and sits on a backstreet close to Gaudi’s Parc Güell. Yellow steelwork and industrial-style interiors characterise Casa Collumpio,

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MACH references high-tech architecture at yellow house in Barcelona

February 12, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A facade of bright yellow steelwork and an industrial-style interior informed by the high-tech architecture movement define this house in Barcelona, designed by local architecture studio MACH. Located on a backstreet close to Parc Güell by Antoni Gaudi, the dwelling called Casa Collumpio combines living areas with space for MACH’s own office. Casa Collumpio is conceived

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“The great transformer of Barcelona” architect Oriol Bohigas dies aged 95

December 8, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Oriol Bohigas, the Catalan architect behind the modernisation of Barcelona, has died at the age of 95. Bohigas, who had Parkinson’s disease for a number of years before his death, passed away on 30 November 2021. An architect and urban planner who co-founded the firm MBM Arquitectes, he was best known for his work transforming

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Kengo Kuma designs sculptural metal-mesh curtain for Gaudí’s Casa Battló

August 3, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Kengo Kuma and Associates has used 164,000 metres of aluminium chains to create this curtain that references the organic forms found inside Barcelona’s renovated Casa Battló. The intervention by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s studio is part of an extensive renovation of the house designed by the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí in 1904. Casa Battló

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Five notable projects by emerging Spanish architecture collective Lacol

April 8, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

From a converted ship-sail factory to a housing cooperative built from cross-laminated timber, here’s a look at five significant projects by the emerging architecture collective Lacol. The 14-strong group of Spanish architects (above) came together as students in Barcelona in 2009 and today operate as an architecture cooperative that strives for social and environmental justice

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Assorted bricks give texture to facade of Camp del Ferro sports centre in Barcelona

January 23, 2021 Amy Frearson 0

Brick facade of Camp del Ferro sports centre in Barcelona

A mix of solid and perforated bricks creates rich patterns in the facade of this Barcelona sports centre, completed by three collaborating architecture studios. Albert Salazar Junyent and Joan Carles Navarro of AIA, Antoni Barceló and Bárbara Balanzó of Barceló-Balanzó Arquitectes, and Gustau Gili Galfetti all teamed up on the design of Camp del Ferro.

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Barcelona to convert a third of central streets into car-free green spaces

November 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Aerial view of Barcelona's grid-like Eixample district

Barcelona’s city council has announced its plans to transform one in three streets in its Eixample district into green, car-free public spaces to tackle air pollution. Under the scheme, 21 streets and 21 road junctions will be converted into small parks and public squares – creating 33.4 hectares of land “where the pedestrian and the

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ON-A proposes covering Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium with Nou Parc

August 26, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Nou Parc park at Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona by ON-A Architecture

Barcelona studio ON-A has envisioned a 26-hectare park in the city that would rise up to cover FC Barcelona football stadium to the west. Named Nou Parc, as a direct reference to the Nou Camp stadium’s name, the forested park would cover the venue along with the surrounding car parks and other smaller sports venues.

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Mas-aqui uses multiple levels to open up Yurikago House in Barcelona

June 30, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture studio Mas-aqui has transformed an apartment in Barcelona into a multi-level home lined with wood and ceramic tiles. Mas-aqui renovated the semi-basement apartment near Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell, using half levels to create more space on the upper storey and creating a new internal staircase to connect to a previously unused lower level. The

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Mas-aqui gives 1910s house in Barcelona a minimalist update

June 11, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture studio Mas-aqui has renovated a 20th-century apartment in the mountains above Barcelona, creating a light-filled home. Called Akari House, a Japanese term for light, the home is now lit by a large skylight built into the roof terrace. Mas-aqui’s clients bought the property, which dates from the 1910s, in a state of disrepair, having

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