Umo Japanese Restaurant, Barcelona Interior

Umo Japanese Restaurant

Design: Estudi Josep Cortina

The architecture forms a dreamlike scene inspired by a forest turned into geometric shapes, capturing the essence of the organic and taking it to an industrial environment.
Wood and iron blend in a reflection of the tension between the industrial, the geometrical and the cold on one hand; and the organic, the curved and warm on the other. The dining area becomes a big stage where the great show cooking takes place and fills the place with dynamism and vitality.

Ullastret, Girona medieval town paving

Ullastret Paving, Girona 1

Design: Mateo Arquitectura. Ullastret revisited by Jordi Bernadó – ‘One of my first works, paving a medieval village, completed many years ago.’ Through Bernadó’s eyes, it reappears new, colourful and vibrant.

Passatge Marimon Apartment Building

Passatge Marimon Flats

Design: Josep Lluís Mateo – MATEO ARQUITECTURA

This three-storey row house was built on Passatge Marimon in the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood, with a direct view from the main thoroughfare of Avinguda Diagonal. The client wanted commercial premises on the basement floor, ground floor and mezzanine, and two floors of dwellings, with two apartments per landing.

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.

Inaugure Hospitality Group Headquarters

Inaugure Hospitality Group Headquarters

YLAB Arquitectos designed the Inaugure Hospitality Group Headquarters in Barcelona at Paseo de Gracia, one of the most important shopping and business addresses in the city

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.

BruumRuum! Barcelona Plaça de les Glòries

BruumRuum! Barcelona Plaça de les Glòries

The ongoing development to transform Glories square from a transportation hub into a social and economic center will advance significantly when the elevated junction is demolished by the end of 2013.

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(at), Diagonal 197 and soon-to-open Encants market).

Pomaret Houses: Barcelona residences

Pomaret Houses: Barcelona residences

The major presence of the houses from the street are four volumes, four modules, autonomous and industrialized. A unique green roof collects the volumetry of the modules

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.