Francesc Rifé Studio sticks to dark tones for Valencia's Merkato restaurant
Coal-coloured surfaces and blackened furnishings provide the dark interiors of this market-style restaurant in Valencia, designed by Francesc Rifé Studio. More
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Kaikaya sushi restaurant in Valencia fuses Japanese and Brazilian design
Creative consultancy Masquespacio has completed a tropical sushi restaurant in Valencia, Spain, that mixes Japanese and Brazilian-inspired design elements. More
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Wooden storage units create living spaces in once-derelict Valencia apartment
London practice Roberto Di Donato has introduced a pair of wooden storage units to this apartment in Valencia, Spain, to redefine its time-worn interiors. More
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Arched doorways and bold hues appear throughout Little Stories shoe store
Spanish studio Clap has used arch-shaped cutouts and primary colours to create a playful children's shoe shop on a street corner in Valencia. More
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Aguskim Studio designs family of celestial-inspired lights for Almerich
Spanish design practice Aguskim Studio has created a collection of lamps inspired by the full moon for lighting brand Almerich. More
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Masquespacio creates colour-clashing interior for phone-repair shop in Valencia
Clashing colours and sharp angles characterise the interior of this smartphone repair shop in Valencia, designed by creative consultancy Masquespacio. More
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Fernando Abellanas hangs secret studio under a bridge in Valencia
Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has installed a covert studio beneath a graffiti-covered bridge in the Spanish city of Valencia, making use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls for the hideaway. More
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Photographer Sebastian Weiss presents Calatrava's Valencian architecture as white sculptures
In his latest photo series, Sebastian Weiss hones in on bright white details of Santiago Calatrava's Valencian art complex, blocking out the larger picture to capture a blanched kaleidoscope of repeating struts and identikit forms. More
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DG Arquitecto Valencia reconfigures traditional Spanish townhouse
The original wooden doors and vaulted ceilings of this Valencian townhouse have been retained in renovation works carried out to improve its connection with a landscaped courtyard. More
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Masquespacio designs colourful interior and branding for its own Valencia studio
Bright colours and geometric forms used by the 1980s Memphis Group influenced the interior design of Masquespacio's studio space in Valencia (+ slideshow). More
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Sports hall for Escola Gavina school in Spain features multi-hued clay and glass tiles
Colourful glass discs are embedded in the clay-tile facade of this school hall near Valencia, so on sunny days colourful shadow patterns are cast across the floor inside (+ slideshow). More
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Cardboard pavilion burned in Valencia "to highlight the emptiness of political discourse"
This geometric cardboard pavilion by art collective Pink Intruder was set alight in Valencia as part of the city's Fallas festival earlier this year (+ slideshow). More
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Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences is "insane" and "amazing" says George Clooney
Actor George Clooney and film director Brad Bird have heaped praise on Santiago Calatrava's cultural complex in Valencia, which features as a key location in their new film Tomorrowland. More
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Crescent-shaped pool skirts cylindrical house by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has completed a pool-side home near Valencia comprising a squat white cylinder with terraces set into deep voids in its walls (+ movie). More
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Valencia to sue Calatrava over falling masonry at City of Arts and Sciences
News: architect Santiago Calatrava is facing legal action from his home city of Valencia because parts of the opera house roof at his City of Arts and Sciences complex are falling off just eight years after completion. More
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2Day Languages by Masquespacio
Pastel gradients spread up the walls of this languages school in Valencia by local design studio Masquespacio (+ slideshow). More
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Creative Dismantling by espai MGR
A disused hospital building in Valencia explodes and shifts into new configurations in this series of manipulated photographs by Spanish studio espai MGR (+ slideshow + movie). More
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Zapata y Herrera lawyers' office by Masquespacio
Spanish design studio Masquespacio have turned a dilapidated Valencia art gallery into an office for a law firm, featuring clusters of empty picture frames on the walls (+ slideshow). More
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Casa del Atrio by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Almost everything that goes on inside this house in Valencia by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is on show to visitors though a transparent glass facade (+ slideshow). More
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"Architect Santiago Calatrava accused of bleeding Valencia dry" - Guardian
Dezeen Wire: Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been accused of "bleeding Valencia dry" over alleged fees of €100 million for the showpiece City of the Arts and Science cultural centre in the city - The Guardian More
