The office is located in a beautiful Modernistic building in the center of Barcelona. On the door you can read 1871. It is characterized by its proximity to the Ramblas and the Plaza Real. While it stands on a site of medieval origin, the building is a characteristic sample of end-of-nineteenth-century architecture and reproduces a […]
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El proyecto de Borneo es una intervención a gran escala , en el puerto central de Amsterdam… Nuestras casas representan una pequeña parte de él. Partimos de la planificación existente que condiciona a que haya una casa a cada lado de la calle. La transformamos en una sola vivienda individual que encara a ambas calles… […]
Lelukaappi is a mobile and multifunctional toy chest designed by Enric Miralles in 1995 for the children’s toy library at the Mollet Civic Centre, near Barcelona. Commissioned in conjunction with an exhibition at the Alvar Aalto Museum, the piece explores the architectural potential of furniture as both spatial and temporal experience. The name, Lelukaappi Finnish […]
The Dolmen Table was originally designed in 1995 by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue for their own residence in the center of Barcelona. This distinctive furniture piece exemplifies their creative reuse of materials, crafted initially in bolondo wood reclaimed from the Icaria pergola project and later reproduced in American cherry and tulipwood (American poplar). The […]
The task involved cleaning, approaching and discovering The intensity of the utility of construction…. Always the same walls… …and the floors, Used and reused from the Gothic doen to the present… Learning to live with a given, And second hand structure, like rummaging throught the pockets of an old coat, setting the things […]
Tropical is a versatile table designed in 1994 by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) for their own home in the heart of Barcelona. Created from reclaimed bolondo wood-leftover from the construction of the Icaria pergola, the tables embody the architects’ ethos of reuse, adaptability, and poetic reinterpretation of material. The Tropical design features two […]
The Ines-table was designed by Enric Miralles for the collective exhibition Le Magazine in Grenoble, France, in 1993. Commissioned as a piece to represent his work and stimulate discussion among participants, Miralles conceived a table that would serve not as a topic, but as a medium of dialogue-”not talked about, but talked on.” The table […]
Actuando sobre la realidad modificando los perfiles dados… Es un trabajo que restablece un nuevo sistema de relaciones y de escalas dimensionales; la estación en la temporalidad del movimiento de los trenes; estos con la avenida; ésta con la plaza; la plaza con los peatones…La construcción es idéntica al deseo de confundirse y a la […]
Where the old Unazuki Trail crosses the deep Kurobe River valley it is transformed into a suspended bridge that successively becomes a commerce bridge for heavy traffic. The foundations of the old bridge permit the construction of this litlle labyrinth in which the path turns in upon itself to offer a long walk suspended over […]