El Tragaluz Restaurant in Southern Spain by Adolfo Pérez López.Mid-century earthiness meets art deco slickness in today’s knockout restaurant, which is located in the ancient town of Rota – a sleepy coastal fishing village in southern Spain. Set within a traditional 18th century courtyard...
World Press Photo Contest: Captivating Images for 2016.Launched in 1955, the World Press Photo Contest is an annual competition that celebrates the highest standards in photojournalism. Photo entries are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and visually compelling insights about our world....
Stories On Design // Top Shelf.Today's story focuses on shelving that's more than just the name itself suggests. Top Shelf is an ode to joinery elements that play an integral part within interior architecture. Top Shelf acts both as a sculptural and a functional...
‘Casa Bonay’ Boutique Hotel by Studio Tack Opens in Barcelona.Designed by Studio Tack, Casa Bonay opened last month as a first-of-its-kind 67-room hotel in the restored 19th c Barcelona mansion of the Bonay...
5m Wide Barcelona Home Refurbished by Josep Ferrando.I have a new found appreciation for small living spaces. Don’t get me wrong, I still love a vast countryside villa or an expansive estate as much as the next archinerd; but you have to be particularly crafty, imaginative and...
Stories On Design // Perfectly Perforated.Perfectly Perforated (try saying that as fast as you can five times in a row) is a celebration of the love affair architects & interior designers seem to have with the 'hole'. Get your mind out of the gutter - you know that I mean,...
Mirrored Interior Installation by Inaki Abalos Celebrates The ‘Architecture of Interiors’.In collaboration with Manuel Ocaña and sio2arch, Inaki Ábalos created an ‘experience’ of 12 contemporary Spanish buildings, using large-scale photographs, section drawings and angular mirrors. Photographs by the esteemed Spanish...
The Heart Stopping Casa Horta in Barcelona by Guillermo Santomà.Casa Horta, designed by the enormously talented interior and product designer Guillermo Santomà is one of those rare but very particular projects that has us feeling a little speechless. A combination of strongly assured minimal...
Epic Farmhouse Renovation in Girona, Spain by Arquitectura-G.Every so often you come across a building that allows your imagination to run wild. It stops you in your tracks, disarms you with wonder and forces you to slow down. The culprit? A farmhouse renovation by Barcelona-based studio...