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More than food and drink is offered inside this healthy cafe in Madrid, where architecture practice Office for Political Innovations has included a host of quirky facilities. Run Run Run takes over a corner plot in Madrid’s Rios Rosas neighbourhood. The two-floor cafe, which also hosts a running club for locals, includes showers and lockers, […] More
Kitchens, bathrooms and storage spaces are slotted behind an MDF “scenography” in these apartments designed by architects Adrià Escolano and David Steegmann. Escolano and Steegmann created the two El Guateque apartments by converting a 160-square-metre self-build house from the 1950s. A refurbishment had previously been attempted in 2007, but was abandoned due to the financial […] More
Corten steel walls, a circular window and a big cross all feature in this house renovated by Raúl Sánchez Architects for a winery in Catalonia. Called Gallery House, the two-storey property functions as both a guesthouse and gallery for the Mas Blanch i Jové winery in La Pobla de Cérvoles. Barcelona-based Sánchez planned his renovation […] More
Architect Leticia Saá has woven historical features such as exposed brickwork and wooden pillars into the minimal interior of this open-plan apartment in Madrid. Located in Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood, the two-bedroom apartment is spread across the top floor of a three-storey residential building that dates back to 1900. The apartment had been unoccupied for 35 […] More
Spanish designer Francesc Rifé has created a distinctive interior for a shoe store in Mallorca, using shades of soft pink and pale grey. The ASH Mallorca store in Palma features curving concrete surfaces and suspended black shelves, set against a backdrop of soft pink curtains. There are few other elements in the 95-square-metre space, ensuring that […] More
Pine-wood partition walls that curve upwards like smiles carve up the interior of this dental clinic in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Raúl Sanchez Architects. Impress is spread across the ground and basement level of a historical building at the heart of Barcelona. The clinic differentiates itself from other dentists by offering online treatments that reduce […] More
Creative consultancy Culdesac has designed a store for supermarket chain Consum in Benicàssim, Spain, with simple, stripped-back interiors to make the shop’s arrangement understandable. Valencia-based Culdesac designed the arrangement, signage and furniture of the store, which will serve as a model for Consum’s future shops, to be clearer and easier to understand than traditional supermarkets. “Stores should be designed […] More
Madrid-based designer Jorge Penadés has designed and fabricated a colourful shop for Spanish footwear brand Camper from simple perforated metal profiles. The store in Málaga has a raw, industrial aesthetic that has been softened with a colour palette of bright blues, pinks and reds. Penadés used just three basic elements – perforated metal profiles, corner […] More
