The architectural practice led by Benedetta Tagliabue has rehabilitated a residential building located in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, where it’s possible to trace the various historical periods that have transformed the neighbourhood through the Renaissance and the Baroque up until the Modern era to the early twentieth century. The property preserves historical vestiges acquired over the […]
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards is the world’s only event dedicated exclusively to accolade the best projects on hospitality design. Starting from the two overall winners, here are the 2013 winning projects in all the categories, including two in Spain. The Atrium Champagne Bar won in the Best Bar and Best Restaurant or Bar in a Hotel […]
This natural oasis is inside the latest skyscraper to grace Barcelona’s skyline: the Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel designed by Jean Nouvel and Ribas & Ribas. We have already covered the project in diarioDESIGN but here is now a video that lets you view the hotel like you were actually there. For those who cannot have the chance to see […]
The Madrid-based architecture pratice of Carlos Arroyo is behind the stunning transformation of an old Coca Cola plant to a town hall and civic centre in Oostkamp, Belgium.
A new restaurant interior constructed on a limited budget but nonetheless resourceful and imaginative within its programmatic and financial limitations. Oval consist of some 200 m2 situated on the ground floor of a late 19th Century building in the juncture of C. Valencia and Enric Granados in Barcelona, the left Eixample district. The area is gradually […]
Chök the chocolate kitchen is a new brand of gourmet chocolate. It has just opened its first shop in the centre of Barcelona, just off Las Ramblas. Intsight were put in charge of creating the concept for the interior design. The styling, props and branding were carried out by Espluga+Associates. Chök is situated inside an historic modernista […]
More than 24,000 square metres, six floors, capacity to accommodate up to 1,500 people with the Mediterranean Sea for a backdrop: this is Desigual’s new corporate headquarters in Barcelona. In a structure designed by Ricardo Bofill adjacent to the W Hotel (or Vela as its known), this new building, with interior design by Turull-Sorensen architects, […]
The Seville-based architecture studio Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos is behind the spectacular transformation of a 19th C building to a modern 21st C museum. The new Rijksmuseum has received a new wide and light-filled entrance, a new pavilion and splendid renovated galleries. © Pedro Pegenaute (Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum) The original architect of this richly decorated […]
The architect and noted photographer Miguel de Guzmán is behind this family home situated in Estación del Espinar – a small village on the northface of the Sierra de Madrid. It has a privileged position – on the outskirts of the village and bordering the Parque Natural La Panera. The plot’s situation was key to the project, which aimed to […]
Design always arises at a particular time, it’s not out of space and time. The activity of projecting and creating objects can not lack of contemporaneity. And the times we are living require of honesty, austerity, simplicity and sustainability, among many other things. This is the reason why the jury of the prestigious Delta Industrial […]
These are the 27 finalists of the 55th Architecture and Interior Design Awards, promoted by the private Arts and Design association from Barcelona FAD. Organised by ArquinFAD, the architecture and interior design branch, the winners will be released next week. The jury is headed by Dani Freixes and other members are Eulalia Aran, Jordi Farrando, Eva Prats, Nuno Sampaio […]
Susana Aristoy and Filena Di Tommaso who head up the Catalan design studio La Petita Dimensió were commissioned to transform the former karaoke bar and restaurant where Ikra is now located, a space where it’s now possible to enjoy live music when dining or having drinks. Their principal challenge was to come up with an […]
A selection of the best product design that has been designed or produced in Madrid was exhibited during the Milan Furniture Fair 2013 at Instituto Cervantes. MADtastic! was organised by Di_mad, the Istituto Europeo di Design and the magazine Neo2. The show was curated by Javier Abio, design editor of Neo2, and the design freelance journalist Tachy Mora, regular […]
Here are the answers from the Q&A with Benedetta Tagliabue, director of estudio EMBT – whom she founded in the 1990s with her then partner the late Enric Miralles – one the most prestigious architects in Spain. She has just launched her first piece of furniture; the Tina chair chair for Expormim. This occasion has afforded us the […]
Montepío del Arrabal, a century-old mutual society in Palma de Mallorca has been transformed into a cantina that revives the spirit of the old fishing district of Santa Catalina and one of its most illustrious residents – Patrón (Captain) Lunares. As part of a drive to recuperate old values, his grandson Javier Bonet has given a […]
The Mercer Hotels Group has just opened the Mercer Barcelona in the city’s Barri Gòtic. The project represents an important recovery of Barcelona’s ancient heritage, as the building’s structure incorporates part of the old Roman Wall along with remains dating from the 1st century. The project was carried out by the architect Rafael Moneo over a four […]