Nook Architects favours living space over bedrooms in Barcelona flat revamp
Nook Architects has reduced the size of bedrooms in Caldrap, a flat in Barcelona, to make room for a spacious and versatile new living and dining space. More
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Foster + Partners to add giant "floating pavilion" to top of Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Foster + Partners has revealed its plans to add a large overhanging rooftop extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, as part of its renovation of the institution in northern Spain. More
Prefabricated pine panels clad kindergarten near Barcelona
Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. More
Beta Ø Architects completes overhaul of X House in Madrid
Spanish studio Beta Ø Architects has inserted a void and a permeable metal sculpture at the centre of this Madrid family home to let air and natural light flow through its interiors. More
Anthony Burrill's graphics top delicate timber rooftop pavilion in Barcelona
Graphic designer Anthony Burrill and architect Eugeni Bach worked with students in Barcelona to build 3KMS, a rooftop pavilion decorated with MDF panels. More
Blackened wood appears throughout R Apartment by Francesc Rifé Studio
Black-stained wood partitions meet time-worn tile floors inside this Valencia apartment, which has been overhauled by Francesc Rifé Studio. More
Tuñón Arquitectos' Casa de Piedra is formed of nine cube-shaped rooms
Tuñón Arquitectos has completed Casa de Piedra, a house in the town of Cáceres, Spain, which is built from solid stone and laid out in a grid of nine cube-shaped rooms. More
Nomo Studio clads Stone House in Menorca with limestone dug from its site
A patchwork of roughly hewn local stone and smooth plaster forms the facades of this house, designed by architects Nomo Studio to overlook the sea in Menorca. More
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos creates walkway on top of glazed Hoffman House
An extruded T-shaped roof that is also a walkway covers a glazed box in this dramatic house designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Valencia, Spain. More
Sagrada Familia finally gets building permit after 137 years
Barcelona's city authority has granted the Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia, which has been under construction since 1882, its first building permit. More
Summa designs new visual identity for Spanish postal service Correos
Spanish branding agency Summa has subtly rebranded Correos, the Spanish national postal service, with a simplified logo for the digital age and a new typeface. More
Madrid could scrap low-emissions zone despite air quality improvements
A major plan to reduce air pollution in Madrid may be repealed, because incoming politicians want to bring traffic back into the city. More
Landscape for Play is a huge colourful playground in Madrid
Aberrant Architecture has created a huge playground in a former Madrid slaughterhouse, based on the work of Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck. More
Benedetta Tagliabue and Patricia Urquiola complete Maggie's Barcelona at Sant Pau Hospital
Benedetta Tagliabue – principal of EMBT – has completed a Maggie's Centre for cancer care at an art nouveau-hospital in Barcelona, with interiors designed by Patricia Urquiola. More
Cadaval & Solà-Morales converts 19th-century theatre into spacious Barcelona home
Aged brick walls and ceiling beams hint at the past lives of this building in Barcelona, which Cadaval & Solà-Morales has turned into a contemporary home. More
Reina & Asociados creates exhibition space within vaulted cellars of Seville's Alcázar
Reina & Asociados has transformed the vaulted brick cellars of the Palacio del Rey don Pedro at Seville's Royal Alcázar into an exhibition space. More
Martin Lejarraga wraps Spanish mountain refuge in red bricks and tiles
Architect Martin Lejarraga has updated a shelter used by hikers, hunters and mountaineers in Murcia, Spain, adding a layer of red-brick cladding that contrasts with the surrounding greenery. More
Family home by Hiha Studio features double-height rooms and rammed earth walls
Barcelona-based Hiha Studio removed floors and inserted lofty voids to create this light-filled family home in a northeastern Spanish village. More
Laura Álvarez Architecture transforms stone ruin into zero-energy Villa Slow
This holiday home in Spain by Laura Álvarez Architecture is built from the walls of a stone ruin and generates more energy that it consumes. More
Vertical garden and sleeping pod feature in small Madrid apartment
Spanish studio Husos Arquitectos has created a 46-square-metre plywood-lined apartment in Madrid for a young doctor and his pet bulldog. More