Industrial revolution
When she first saw this old, derelict textile factory in the centre of Barcelona, interior designer Cristina Rodriguez wasn’t even fazed – she knew that eventually it would be her home, and how right she was…
This was once a buzzing, thriving factory where people came to work day after day to produce fabrics and textiles. The huge space could have been daunting but, instead of feeling negative about it, Cristina plunged into a whirl of ideas and thoughts about how to make this vast area into various living zones without adding partitions or walls.
Big Concrete
One of my favourite architecture firms is called A-cero. The Spanish firm does not ever fail to impress with bold designs and equally cool interiors. They have done it again with a big concrete single-family house in Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain. The concrete residence is a rather large house of 1,600 square meters, and is located on a 5,000 square meter plot. The combination of grey concrete and green vegetation gives you a feeling that it’s a bunker.
An antique dealer’s loft
Arantza is a Spanish antique dealer. Her house is white yet colorful, fresh and vibrant, and very personal : artwork, books and vintage pieces are gloriously celebrated in her Bilbao loft. Magique!
Barcelona Industrial
What was originally a stable, bomb shelter, then printing shop is now a modern loft where industrial style and simple materials live together with a very modern concept of space and ecology.
Living in a fold
Rarely I come along projects that really surprise me, that refuse to build from existing elements, creating totally new ones instead. This – although quite small – flat is one.