Barcelona

No Image

Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona

April 13, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona, created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. MIAS and Coll-Leclerc

The post Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Barcelona’s “best projects are being done in the field of social housing”

March 27, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

As part of our Social Housing Revival series, we spotlight the city of Barcelona, which is shrugging off the legacy of fascism by rapidly ramping up its supply of social housing. In June 2015, veteran housing activist Ada Colau became the first female mayor of Barcelona. She had risen to prominence clashing with police as

The post Barcelona’s “best projects are being done in the field of social housing” appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House

February 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. Rumeu and his wife, the Madrid-born artist Beatriz Dubois, decided to move to the architect’s home city for work after living for

The post Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

External Reference uses 3D printing to create organic displays for La Manso store in Barcelona

December 21, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

3D-printed shelving structures informed by Catalan-modernist buildings were used for shelving in this store designed by External Reference for a Spanish jewellery brand. Experimental jewellery designer Adriana Manso asked Carmelo Zappulla’s studio External Reference to develop a suitably unusual interior concept for her first physical store in the city. The project involved designing a window display

The post External Reference uses 3D printing to create organic displays for La Manso store in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona

November 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Spanish architecture studio CRÜ has remodelled an old public laundry into a house and studio for a couple in west Barcelona. Called La Clara, the project in the district of Les Corts is shortlisted in the house renovation category of the Dezeen Awards 2023. To reconfigure the old ground floor laundry into a home, CRÜ

The post CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

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

The post Mesura furnishes Casa Vasto apartment and gallery with “constellation of objects” appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

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

The post El Departamento designs Barcelona eyewear store as a “challenging visual exercise” appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Isern Serra turns renderings into reality to form pink Moco Concept Store in Barcelona

June 15, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Isern Serra has transformed a computer-generated image by digital artist Six N Five into a rose-coloured retail space for the Moco Museum in Barcelona. Situated in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood, the Moco Museum exclusively exhibits the work of modern artists such as Damien Hirst, Kaws, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons. The institution’s eponymous

The post Isern Serra turns renderings into reality to form pink Moco Concept Store in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Raúl Sanchez Architects divides Barcelona apartment with 21-metre-long wooden wall

May 30, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

A lengthy walnut-panelled wall runs through the bright white living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, renovated by local studio Raúl Sanchez Architects. The Girona Street apartment is set within a 19th-century building in Barcelona’s affluent Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood and belongs to a design-savvy couple with two young children. Prior to the renovation, the apartment

The post Raúl Sanchez Architects divides Barcelona apartment with 21-metre-long wooden wall appeared first on Dezeen.