Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Poli-Piel: Jorge PenadĂ©s Serrano’s First Solo Show at Gallery Machado-Muñoz in Madrid.Jorge PenadĂ©s has kept up his innovative exploration of left-over materials with a new eight-piece collection that pushes the potential of leather as a sturdy structural material, presented as part of Madrid Design...
110 Rooms: MAIO Architects’ Jaw-Dropping Apartment Building in Barcelona.Some projects just make you sit up straight in your chair, stop whatever else you were trying to do at the time, and pay close attention. This is exactly what happened when I first came across this residential building in Barcelona...
CASAPLATA Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Seville by Lucas y HernĂĄndez-Gil.CASPALATA in the heart of Seville suggests a new kind of vision and future for restaurant and cocktail bar design. Madrid-based studio Lucas y HernĂĄndez-Gil have purposefully sidestepped tried and true nostalgia in favour of creating...
Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy: Romola Restaurant in Madrid by Andres Jaque.Bursting from the former garage space of a 40s-era Luis GutiĂ©rrez Soto building in Madrird, Romola Restaurant immediately reminds me of the jade powder room in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerâs 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Its futurist...
Casa Josephine’s Fitout for Madrid Advertising Agency is Fresh AF!Madrid ad agency, Mr. Hyde enlisted Spanish interiors studio Casa Josephine to push the whole lifestyle office aesthetic a notch or two further. On the corner of a historic 20th-century building, Mr. Hydeâs HQ had many former lives....
Duplex Tibbaut in Barcelona, Spain by RaĂșl SĂĄnchez.Maybe the most striking element of RaĂșl SĂĄnchezâs Duplex Tibbaut in downtown Barcelona is its bold spatial definitionâa trick the Spanish architect seems to enjoy. Using geometry and a helping of buttery gold and charcoal black...
Bricks Decoded: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Breeze Block.In Brazil, itâs known as CobogĂł. In India, they call it Jaalis. The French term is Brise-soleil. Here we know it as Breeze Block. Call them what you will, these little units of awesome are making a massive comeback. Back in the 50s...
Liquid Pavilion by DepA for The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.DepA has completed a mirrored pavilion set on the grounds of a cultural institution Serralves, Portugal, originally designed by Ălvaro Siza in the...
