Barcelona Design Museum: Spain Building

Barcelona Design Museum

Design: MBM Arquitectes

Intriguing Catalan architecture – a confident, expressive building by David Mackay / MBM. The ‘Design Hub’ is located on a sloping site beside Jean Nouvelle’s Agbar tower, and very close to the elevated roundabout of a busy motorway. The site is part of a future park which meant that only a small building footprint would be allowed at ground level with the rest of the building underground.

House in Vallvidrera, Barcelona property

House in Vallvidrera, Barcelona property

The project is situated in the Vallvidrera neighborhood, a residential area with views overlooking the city of Barcelona, surrounded by the Collserola natural park, in a very sloped and small plot situated between a valley and a pine forest

Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel, Catalunya

Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel, Catalunya

The tower’s facade is bright white on the south, west and east elevations in order to reduce solar gain due to exposure to the sun. The north facade is matt black to help it absorb as much solar radiation as possible during the short time it is exposed to the sun.

Nou Mercat dels Encants Barcelona building

Nou Mercat dels Encants Barcelona building

The wider zone of the Glories square has drawn lots of attention in the last few years as a transportation hub of Barcelona being at the same time a contemporary architecture hub (with buildings like Agbar tower, Design Hub, Mediacomplex 22@, Diagonal 197 and soon-to-open Encants market).

Il duomo Café Lleida Coffee Bar, Catalunya

Il duomo Café Lleida interior Catalonia

Il duomo Café in Lleida coffee shop project recovers the essence of traditional architecture and simple agricultural building of the past rural Catalonia; local and organic materials, warm and with textures, dodging high-tech solutions and specializations.

Sant Cugat del Vallès Student Housing

Sant Cugat del Vallès Student Housing Barcelona

The new dwelling house for university students is located in the same block as the Vallès Architecture School. The project proposed intends to keep its balance among the existing buildings, outside areas and the new dwelling house

Solar Tower Catalonia, Sabadell Project

Solar Tower Catalonia, Sabadell Project

Sabadell will be studied during the Bauhaus Solar International Congress 2012 in the city of Erfurt, Germany, thanks to the work done by the young architects Alejandro Ribas Mercau, Angel Cerezo Cerezo and Martin Negri Rodriguez.

Escola Bressol Jardins Malaga: Barcelona Nursery

Escola Bressol Jardins Malaga Barcelona Nursery Barcelona

The redesign of the Malaga gardens, located in the block interior bounded by Nicaragua, Berlin, Numancia and Avenida Josep Tarradelas streets, in Barcelona, promoted the allocation of a small site for the construction of an education facility: a nursery.

Kindergarten Peru, Barcelona Nursery, Catalonia

Kindergarten Peru Barcelona building

Kindergarten Peru, Barcelona: Catalonian nursery school building design by Pich-Aguilera Architects: the construction site of the kindergarten is located inside a public garden in Sant Adrià district and it faces Peru Street.