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Mesura furnishes Casa Vasto apartment and gallery with “constellation of objects”

September 20, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

Local studio Mesura has designed a live-work home for a gallery owner that combines exhibition space with living quarters in a former factory in Barcelona. Casa Vasto is situated in the city’s seaside neighbourhood El Poblenou, characterised by its 18th-century industrial buildings that were deindustrialised in the 1960s and 70s. The apartment is located in

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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior

September 3, 2023 Erin 0

Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently completed in Madrid, Spain, that includes wood details throughout its interior. In the living room, a wall-mounted TV is disguised as art, while illuminated wooden shelves on either side stand as curated showcases, highlighting the owner’s colorful book collection. […]

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Fluted Concrete Walls Cut By Continuous Window Openings Define This Villa

August 31, 2023 Erin 0

NOMO STUDIO has shared photos of a modern home they’ve designed in Menorca, Spain, that features a textured facade of fluted concrete walls. The fluted concrete walls are sliced by continuous window openings creating a combination of horizontal stripes that alternate between solid and glass. Here’s a close-up look at the grooved concrete block combined with darker wattle ceilings and […]

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Viruta Lab blankets former fisherman’s house in Valencia with chequerboard tiles

August 14, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Spanish interiors studio Viruta Lab has renovated a compact house in El Cabanyal, Valencia’s traditional fishing neighbourhood, using geometric blue-and-white tiling for an understated nautical aesthetic. Built in 1946, the humble two-storey building once belonged to the grandparents of the current owner but had been boarded up for many years. Viruta Lab was brought on board to

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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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Plantea Estudio designs intentionally unfinished Veja store “to look like we didn’t do anything”

July 26, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Raw finishes and brutalist interventions feature in footwear brand Veja’s first dedicated shop in Madrid, complete with an in-house shoe repair workshop and interiors designed by local firm Plantea Estudio. The retail space is housed in a building in the centre of Madrid, which has functioned as a shop, a restaurant and a bank office

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Curves and colour blocking feature in JJ16 apartment by Lucas y Hernández-Gil

July 13, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Madrid studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil has completed a family home that makes the most of every inch, with details including a yellow storage wall, a corridor kitchen and a hidden closet. JJ16 is a three-bedroom apartment in Madrid’s Salamanca district, but until recently it had been used as an office. Lucas y Hernández-Gil, a specialist

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The Lodge hotel takes over 500-year-old farmhouse in Mallorca

July 5, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A roughly-hewn stone trough and a traditional mill for pressing olive oil were repurposed by interior designer Pilar García-Nieto within this farmhouse-turned-hotel near Mallorca’s Serra de Tramuntana mountain range. The Lodge is the latest boutique hotel from Único Hotels, tucked away inside a 157-hectare estate filled with centenarian almond and olive trees, lavender fields and 20 kilometres

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Balzar Arquitectos nestles copper-toned home into Valencian olive grove

July 2, 2023 Katie Last 0

Spanish studio Balzar Arquitectos has added a copper-toned family house named La Casa de los Olivos to an olive grove in Valencia, Spain. Aiming to blend into its site in the town of Quesa, the long and low-lying home has been finished with a red-hued lime mortar that mimics the surrounding soil. Balzar Arquitectos also

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Lamborghini unveils luxury villas “directly inspired by the brand’s supercars”

June 22, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sports car brand Lamborghini and developer Dar Global have unveiled 53 villas that will overlook the Mediterranean near Marbella on the south coast of Spain. Named Tierra Viva, the development will consist of 53 two-storey villas on a hillside in the town of Behanavís near Marbella. Announced as the car brand’s first residential project in Europe,

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