Este proyecto es el resultado de unir dos edificaciones preexistentes en el barrio barcelonés de la Clota. El objeto de la obra era la restauración y ampliación de las dos casas, ubicadas entre medianeras y de dos plantas cada una, para convertirlas en un única vivienda con un estudio biblioteca como pieza significativa. La intervención […]
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The “Troncs” table, designed by Enric Miralles in collaboration with Benedetta Tagliabue in 1998, is a reinterpretation of the classic picnic table, integrating both table and bench into a singular, cohesive piece. Originally crafted from elm wood for their personal residence in Barcelona, the design emphasizes adaptability and a connection to natural forms. A distinctive […]
“The acceptance of the discipline of the existing: a ghost that is present during the whole changing process of a building as the physical quality of time embodied in things”. We felt it was necessary to return the characteristic Venetian freedom and density to the area of the future Venice School of Architecture. At the […]
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 […]
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 […]