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To enrich the experience of visitors to the iconic building, an emergency staircase is walled with undulating aluminum link curtains, in what is a new take on sensual Modernisme lines. Paying tribute to the decoration of Gaudí’s light well, the insta
The Valencia-based firm Trazia, headed by Carlos Pardo and Lucía Hernández, has renovated Casa Ayora – on Calle Mayor in Almussafes, a municipality in the comarca Ribera Baja – for museum use. Set between party walls, the building was a Dominican c
The Czech studio Atelier-r, headed by Miroslav Pospíšil, has refurbished Helfštýn Castle. It is located in Týn nad Bečvou, a municipality in the Olomouc Region of the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Helfštýn dates back to the 14th century and t
Within Shanghai’s Qingpu district lies the historical Zhang Yan Village, where the Shenzhen practice of Ju Bin, called Horizontal Design, has renovated and refurbished a series of structures and transformed then into part of a museum, fragmented into
Based in Madrid and Pamplona, the practice of Javier Pérez-Herreras and Francisco Javier Quintana de Uña – taller básico de arquitectura – has amid fir and pine trees built this 900-square-meter office pavilion that opens out on its long facade to th
On a steep slope of the Hokusetsu Mountains, 40 kilometers north of the city of Osaka, is the cemetery of the town of Inagawa. A monumental flight of stairs that divides the necropolis into two parts and leads to the sanctuary in the highest area mar
