Tagged Madrid

Gon Architects has teamed up with Ana Torres to transform a compartmentalized apartment with a 21-meters long floor plan into a light-filled and flowing residence for a bachelor in Madrid's Malasaña district....

Spanish studio Husos Arquitectos has designed a 46-square-meter apartment in Madrid for a young doctor and his bulldog Albóndiga (‘Meatball’). During the design process, the studio analyzed several specifi...

Famous for his work “Cesped” in Madrid’s Plaza Mayor, SpY surprises us once again with this proposal that marks the celebration of the 50th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon. The project idea is ...

Hidden beneath the streets of the Madrilenian neighborhood “Barrio de Las Letras” (today a neuralgic point of the city), under a refurbished palace of the eighteenth century where Hotel Axel Madrid is locat...

Commissioned by a young client who decides to renovate his family home where he grew up and lived for many years, Spanish practice Elii has transformed a traditional flat in the southwest of Madrid into a new h...

Valencia-based practice Ramón Esteve Estudio has recently designed this house surrounded by lush vegetation in a residential area of the mountains of Madrid. The plot borders a lake that the house opens to. Th...

The light installation, named Lucia in the Sky, is a site-specific project commissioned to architecture studio Brut Deluxe by the City of Madrid for Gran Via, coinciding with the termination of the refurbishm...

Barcelona-based firm Tarruella Trenchs Studio has recently completed the new Hotel Icon Embassy by Petite Palace in Madrid, Spain. The concept proposed by the Spanish design team brings back the original sophis...

Spanish practice Ábaton Arquitectura has recently refurbished a penthouse in the heart of Madrid, next to one of the most important cultural sites in the city, namely, the surroundings of the Retiro Park. It i...

Spanish firm Wanna One has converted a six-story warehouse in the center of Madrid into a new urban oasis, called 2060 hostel. The local studio developed the project around Isaac Newton’s prediction of the Wo...

Hollywood movies have vividly captured the thrill of the atmosphere of casinos. While many people might have dreamed of going there the fact remains that is a luxury. And for most people it only remains a dream...

In the heart of “El Barrio de las Letras” in Madrid, Barcelona-based firm El Equipo Creativo overlapped a series of historical references to the design of the new Axel Hotel on Atocha Street. One of the st...

Designed by Barcelona-based architecture firm El Equipo Creativo, Las Chicas, Los Chicos y los Maniquís restaurant is one of the food and beverage offers of Hotel Axel Madrid. The objective of the design was...

Every day we’re becoming increasingly aware of the need to improve our habits for the sake of our environment, although nonetheless our cities—gigantic and vast—are often far from reflecting this change o...

Located on a characteristic street in Madrid's Barrio de Salamanca, the Penthouse H by Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos forms part of the seventh floor of a typical bourgeoisie twentieth- century bu...

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor, the City of Madrid has commissioned American artist Janet Echelman to create one of her striking hand-knitted installations. Titled "1.78 Madrid," the pi...

Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has recently transformed a former 1946 garage in Madrid into the new Ròmola restaurant and café. While the original volume and structure remain intact, the experimental restau...

Spanish practice ELII Architects has refurbished this micro-apartment in Madrid adopting a series of smart solution for storage spaces. A dual strategy has been applied to this project: firstly, the floor plan ...

A large old flat in Madrid has been recently converted by local architect Manuel Ocaña into three luxury apartments as part of an investment real estate operation. This would usually mean that creativity is o...

As the name of this restaurant and cocktail bar in Barcelona suggests – El Mama & La Papa – local studio El Equipo Creativo worked for a client who wanted to create a space which played upon duality and...

Last June, Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus has installed a labyrinth of plastic waste within Madrid’s Plaza Mayor. In such unique setting, the artists conceived a piece that had something to do with thi...