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Colour blocking brightens fire-damaged Klinker Apartment in Barcelona

October 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Klinker Apartment by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona. Klinker Apartment is set inside an art-nouveau building in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood and serves as a holiday home for a family of four hailing from Coronado, California. The mother, an interior designer, had

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Colour blocking brightens fire-damaged Klinker Apartment in Barcelona

October 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Klinker Apartment by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona. Klinker Apartment is set inside an art-nouveau building in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood and serves as a holiday home for a family of four hailing from Coronado, California. The mother, an interior designer, had

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Decorative tiled floors reveal original room layout of renovated Barcelona apartments

October 11, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Vallirana 47 apartment by Vora

Architecture studio Vora has created an interplay of old and new inside these five Barcelona apartments, by arranging walls to highlight the original patterned tile floors. Set inside a grey, austere residential building called Vallirana 47, the apartments have been overhauled by locally-based studio Vora to blend old and new elements. “We worked with the

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Raúl Sanchez Architects strips back Barcelona apartment to showcase architectural details

September 23, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Atic Aribau by Raúl Sanchez Architects

A series of light-filled living spaces feature inside this Barcelona apartment, which Raúl Sanchez Architects has stripped back to highlight the building’s sloped facade. Atic Aribau is set within one of the chamfered-corner residential buildings that are characteristic of Barcelona’s Eixample neighbourhood. The 110-square-metre apartment – which takes its name from a nearby street –

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Vilablanch restores and revamps Barcelona’s Casa Burés

August 14, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Burés by Vilablanch

Interior design studio Vilablanch selected “silent” contemporary furnishings to deck out this Barcelona apartment block, keeping the focus on the building’s opulent original features. Casa Burés – which is longlisted in the apartment interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards – has been designed by Vilablanch to feature a host of modern fixtures and furnishings

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Vilablanch restores and revamps Barcelona’s Casa Burés

August 14, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Burés by Vilablanch

Interior design studio Vilablanch selected “silent” contemporary furnishings to deck out this Barcelona apartment block, keeping the focus on the building’s opulent original features. Casa Burés – which is longlisted in the apartment interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards – has been designed by Vilablanch to feature a host of modern fixtures and furnishings

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Nook Architects favours living space over bedrooms in Barcelona flat revamp

July 28, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Caldrap Barcelona Apartment by Nook Architects

Nook Architects has reduced the size of bedrooms in Caldrap, a flat in Barcelona, to make room for a spacious and versatile new living and dining space. The home is located in an ageing high-rise in the city’s Poble Sec neighbourhood. With 67 square-metres of floor space, it was spacious enough to accommodate its new

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Prefabricated pine panels clad kindergarten near Barcelona

July 19, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
El Til-ler Kindergarten School by Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges

Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. The concrete and pine kindergarten is one of six structures arranged like a small village around a central “rambla” – a Hispanic term for a promenade or high street. Alongside the kindergarten,

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Anthony Burrill’s graphics top delicate timber rooftop pavilion in Barcelona

July 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Summer Pavilion by Eugeni Bach, Anthony Burrill and Elisava Barcelona students

Graphic designer Anthony Burrill and architect Eugeni Bach worked with students in Barcelona to build 3KMS, a rooftop pavilion decorated with MDF panels. Forty students from the Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering worked on the pavilion, which stands on the roof of the school. Burrill and Bach are both tutors at the school, and

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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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