Roche Bobois   The French firm Roche Bobois devoted to furniture design and distribution, has launched its Pulp, series designed by Eugeni Quitllet (Ibiza, 1972). The result of this collaboration is a collection of biomorphic tables, chairs, and armchars, shunnin

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The renovation works at the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel involves several spaces. The inauguration of all the new spaces is scheduled for the summer of 2025. First to be completed is ‘The Council,’ a smoking room with two fireplaces, one on ea

Lucas y Hernández-Gil   Spain   Near the San Juan reservoir in the mountains of Madrid stands Casa Montesa, a work of the firm headed by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil. Beside this small bungalow, in the garden, the Madrid practice has raised a flexible, multip

Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius José María García de Paredes    Spain   Under the influence of Gio Ponti, the sinuous expressivity and exquisite materiality of the interiors seek to turn an administrative program into a genuine experience of space. The efficient layout, the fruit of an exhaustive study of references, is

Foster + Partners   China   This recently opened Apple store is in the heart of Shanghai’s Jing’an District. Generating a public space for encounters, a new circular plaza connects different walkways through several curving levels featuring vegetation and tiered seating from wh

Zooco Estudio   Spain   The Cantabrian Maritime Museum (MMC) in Santander was built between 1975 and 1978, following a design by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales. The interior is distributed in three floors around a central patio crowned with a vault of concr

Gonzalo del Val Toni Gelabert   Spain   Gonzalo del Val and Toni Gelabert, in collaboration with Clara Castañeda, revamped this flat in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, in a residential building raised between 1925 and 1927 for the Marquis of Amurrio by the architect Gustavo Fernández Balbu

Estudio DIIR   Spain   At Fortuny 47 in Madrid one finds an 80-square meter eatery called Greta Salad Bar. The objective of the project was to convey an identity linked to healthy values, through a design that floods the spaces with the color green. Different greenish tone

Pierre Yovanovitch   Switzerland   The young Victor Hugo who in 1832 was forbidden to stage Le roi s’amuse under the pretext of lèse-majesté could not have imagined that twenty years later, people would be singing his verses set to music on the streets of Venice, London, and even Hava

Hanghar   Spain   This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where expensive finishes are unnec

Risco   Portugal   So eager to modernize, the 19th century’s rulers did not properly weigh up the potential effects of their disentailment policies, leaving a vast pool of church property unprotected. In the case of the Convent of Beato António, what the 1755 earthquak

Barozzi Veiga   Spain   At Consell de Cent 349, in the Eixample, the first Barcelona store of the Australian cosmetic firm Aesop, founded in Melbourne in 1987, has opened. The firm of the Italian Fabricio Barozzi and the Galician Alberto Veiga did the interiors. A large hig

Snøhetta   United States   “The non-building of the year.” That is how the grand dame of architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, dubbed the skyscraper – crowned like a piece of English furniture – that Philip Johnson raised in Midtown Manhattan in the 1980s, and which de

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   As Loos would say, you can’t build a house with carpets alone. He was talking about the architect’s task having to start out with a skeleton for the enclosure, a conviction which a very young fashion house has now playfully set out to refute in one o

MOCA estudio   Spain   This eatery designed by MOCA estudio (Carlos Moles Romero, Adrián Sánchez), is at Santa Engracia 54, in Madrid's Chamberí neighborhood. On the ground floor of a listed 1925 building, it has a floor area of 300 square meters, 180 of which is the publi

Renesa Architecture   India   There is no doubt that we live surrounded by what Debord acidly called the marchandise vedette, articles that compete to be displayed in the most irresistible way possible, appealing to our senses and our wallets. In architecture, this dictate of pub

estudiHac   Spain   The Valencia-based studio has a space in which to display the broad range of creative possibilities that this brand specialized in claddings offers, presented through the superposition of materials, plans, textures, and colors...

P-M-A-A    Spain   The new circular skylight is a unique addition that transforms an old and dark space into an atmosphere filled with natural light. Concentrating the program at the corners generates an open-plan space of squared proportions and symmetrical in section

Evvo Retail   Spain   ‘Layers’ of industrial materials – aluminum and concrete – are added to the space that preserves the original walls, in contrast with the elegant and theatrical textures in an atmosphere of pastel colors that uses the curve as a sculptural element...

Solar Marta Jarabo   Spain   Brando studies the relationship between visual perception and the phenomenology of color, and the objective is to develop a new commercial model where consumption is understood as an atmospheric experience. Located in Madrid’s historical center, at H

Scapelab   Slovenia   Buildings can have many lives: someone builds them with a purpose, but time eventually imposes others, even though the forms stubbornly tend to persist. This is the case of an old construction in Ljubljana, which was a sugar refinery before a devasta

ENORME Studio   Spain   The modular flat named Beyome – a contraction of Beyond Home – addresses the trend toward living and working in one same space, adapting to the needs of the occupants. The rooms are reconfigirable, activated domoticaly or manually and through linear

Manuel Bouzas Santiago del Águila   Spain   As part of the 2021 celebration of A Cel Obert, a festival of ephemeral architecture held in Tortosa (Tarragona), this monumental-scale, over 6-meter-high lamp is the work of the architects Manuel Bouzas and Santiago del Águila, in collaboration with

TAKK Architecture   Spain   A reduced budget warranted rethinking the residence as a succession of concentric spaces that harness passive strategies to bring consumption of energy down to a minimum. Instead of the usual arrangement of rooms and hallways, the layout follows a th

In the Swedish locality of Jukkasjärvi, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, one finds Icehotel 365, the rooms of which are and built with snow and ice, including the suite named A Midsummer Night’s Dream, designed by Carl Philip Bernadotte and Oscar L

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   In schools of architecture, students are not taught how to execute renovations. This kind of work, disdained for years in schools and by the great representatives of contemporary architecture who teach there, has become the bread and butter of a prof

Barcelona has officially opened the latest segment of line 9 of its metropolitan raiway system, to which the team formed by Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet has contributed three stations: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic, and Mercabarna. Each

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