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Raul Sanchez Architects uses black and white to defines spaces in Barcelona apartment

October 16, 2018 Claire Bingham 0

Raul Sanchez Architects has refurbished the Sardenya Apartment in Barcelona to create an open plan space with different functions defined by black and white colouring. Raul Sanchez Architects renovated the residential apartment on the fourth floor of a 1970s building in Barcelona to create a two-bedroom flat with a flexible layout for a single man. The architect removed all but

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Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona

October 10, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. The stream is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. In the talk, Dezeen’s

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Seven Barcelona homes with tile designs worth repeating

October 6, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Tiles have been used widely throughout Spanish interior design, particularly within Barcelona homes. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy has selected seven of the city’s most striking examples, from an apartment with ornately patterned floors to a home with textured terracotta walls. Laia and Biel’s House by TEd’A Architecture studio TE’dA aptly created several ceramic surfaces within

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Crushed tiles used to create terrazzo details in Laia and Biel’s House in Barcelona

July 22, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Terrazzo grout made from crushed tiles and a long spruce plywood storage wall feature in this renovated Barcelona flat by Spanish firm TEd’A. The apartment provides a Barcelona base for Laia and Biel Huguet, owners of Mallorcan tile brand Huguet, in the city’s Gracia district. Its 65-square-metre interior is arranged across three consecutive rooms, with a

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Escolano + Steegmann creates apartment that recalls rooftops of Barcelona

July 21, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Bold geometric shapes and terracotta tiles are used to reference the city rooftops in Escolano + Steegmann’s renovation of an apartment in Barcelona. Called Casa Conxita, the 84-square-metre apartment has a linear, east-west layout that looks out onto the street at one end and into a courtyard at the other. The plan is divided lengthways into two zones

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Facebook to move into Jean Nouvel’s Barcelona skyscraper

May 8, 2018 India Block 0

Facebook has reportedly rented eight floors of office space inside the Jean Nouvel-designed Torre Glòries skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. Competence Call Centre (CCC), a company hired by Facebook to combat the spread of fake news, hate speech and violent content on the social media platform, has acquired 9,000 square metres of office space in the building, according

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Antique doors create wood-panelled halls in Barcelona apartment renovation

April 6, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Antique doors, panelling and sections of ageing plasterwork have been kept on display in Isabel López Vilalta’s overhaul of this Barcelona apartment, which includes a new mezzanine play area complete with slide. The penthouse is located north-west of Barcelona’s city centre in the affluent neighbourhood of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi. Its owners, a professional couple with three children, tasked

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Marc Goodwin photographs 14 architecture studios in Barcelona

March 2, 2018 India Block 0

Photographer Marc Goodwin visited Barcelona for the the next instalment of his series on architects’ offices around the world, shooting among others the workspace created inside a former cement factory by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. Goodwin, who heads up architectural photography studio Archmospheres, shot 14 workspaces around the city, including the offices of Ricardo Bofill, Office of Architecture

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Deep-blue cabinetry and coral-pink arches redefine Barcelona apartment

February 22, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has made room for colourful storage units and a pink bathroom by opening up the plan of this apartment in Barcelona’s historic El Born neighbourhood. Apartment in Born is set within a residential building that dates back to the 13th-century. It’s owner, a young Italian women who works in the fashion

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Deep-blue cabinetry and coral-pink arches redefine Barcelona apartment

February 22, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has made room for colourful storage units and a pink bathroom by opening up the plan of this apartment in Barcelona’s historic El Born neighbourhood. Apartment in Born is set within a residential building that dates back to the 13th-century. It’s owner, a young Italian women who works in the fashion

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