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Some buildings have more lives than a cat. This one located in the exclusive neighborhood of Sarriá (Barcelona) is a clear example. First it was a family residence. Later the ground floor was turned into a lighting factory and then a shop. Now there is another business on this floor and a house on the first level. […]

After a complicated year for the Catalan company recently acquired by Damm and Cobega groups, Cacaolat faces a new era with optimism and enthusiasm. The new offices of Cacaolat in Barcelona, located in a former industrial building with brick walls, metallic structure and a ceiling made of exposed trusses, have been redesigned by Pilar Líbano studio and Jaume […]

The catalan studio Arquitectura-g has renovated this house located in Cilleros (Cáceres, Spain). The original building was a traditional country house between party walls, with an elongated floor plan and a narrow centerline, facing a garden at the rear. Time and abandonment took the building to a complete state of dilapidation.

Acabada la gran feria de la iluminación europea, Light+Building 2014, en Vibia ya tienen listo su catálogo virtual con las últimas novedades y colecciones, además de los modelos más representativos de la firma española. Ya te presentamos las novedades de la firma en diarioDESIGN, ahora puedes consultar directamente su nuevo Catálogo General de Vibia 2014, aquí. […]

In the past it was a several rooms apartment but after the renovation, conducted by the interior designer Neus Casanova, this 65 square meter space located in Barcelona has turned into a single-room apartment in which furniture and some original features divide the night and day spaces. Moreover the house has a very particular distribution, since […]

Every two years, the world’s best brands and designers reunite in Frankfurt at Light & Building fair to present the novelties that will star their catalogues for the next 24 months. It has taken place this month and here you can find a selection from the Spanish designers and/or brands participating, a must for all […]

The trick has not been to take advantage of the building’s well and turning it into a garden, since it is actually an artificial garden in which the light comes from a fake skylight in the roof. This and other artifices have been used by the catalan studio Egue & Seta to transform this ground floor […]

Esta semana, el Salone Internazionale del Mobile de Milán copa la actualidad del mundo del diseño. Pero en diarioDESIGN no nos quedamos ahí: he aquí lo más visto esta semana en nuestra web. No te pierdas ninguno de los posts de diarioDESIGN, aquí. ¡Feliz cumpleaños Hans J. Wegner! Dinamarca celebra el centenario del ‘maestro del […]

La semana pasada repasamos las novedades del diseño español que se presentaron en la feria Light & Building en Frankfurt. Hoy te presentamos una selección de los mejores diseños nórdicos en iluminación; una luz sumamente cálida que nos encanta y ha tenido gran protagonismo también en las últimas ferias de Estocolmo y Frankfurt. Seguro que no […]

Hoy finaliza Light & Building 2014, la cita imprescindible para los interesados en el mundo de la iluminación. Cada dos años, las mejores firmas y diseñadores del mundo se reúnen en Frankfurt para presentar las novedades que protagonizaran sus catálogos durante los siguientes 24 meses.

Del 30 de marzo al 4 de abril, el sector de la iluminación presenta sus nuevas colecciones en la feria Light+Building de Frankfurt, la más importante de Europa para este sector. De entre sus 2.300 expositores (con más de 60 firmas españolas), os presentamos las novedades de la firma Vibia, un sugerente y renovado catálogo […]

Architect Gustau Gili Galfetti has carried out an important renovation of an apartment in an advanced state of deterioration located in the Eixample district of Barcelona, based on the classic typology of the neighborhood buildings: two clearly differentiated zones, in the front and the rear, the latter one being provided with an access to a […]

Designed by Renzo Piano, The Shard is the highest building in London and, at least for the moment, in Western Europe. Situated on the south bank of the Thames, near the Borough Market and Tower Bridge, it is an enormous glass skyscraper of 72 floors. On the 32nd floor sits the Oblix restaurant designed by […]

Camper has recently opened a new showroom In Shanghai designed by Neri & Hu. The prestigious chinese studio has achieved the perfect balance between tradition and modernity in this project for the Malllorcan brand’s flagship store in China, situated in the French Concession zone. They have done so by conceiving a building within a building, with […]

The Portuguese architecture studio Carvalho Araújo is behind this subtle intervention at Quinta de Lemos, a rural farmhouse set amongst vineyards in Viseu, Portugal. The project forms part of the strategy of a global brand, and is composed of gourmet restaurant and a small countryside hotel.

The Dom Arquitectura studio, founded by the architect Pablo Serrano Elorduy and the interior designer Blanca Elorduy, has carried out the renovation of this ancient home situated in the rural village of Noutigos in Carnota, a region in Galicia (Spain). Respect for old stone and existing elements, combined with an open plan, modern lighting and furnishings are the […]