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Real projects, real problems, real transformations. Names changed, lessons preserved.

hospitality5 min read

The Leaf the Forest Grew

Wayan's grandfather had described a house that was also a tree. It took Wayan forty years, and a forest above Ubud, to understand what the old man had meant.

hospitality5 min read

The Domes That Gave the Coast Back

Maria had spent fifteen years engineering renewable systems for other people's resorts. The brownfield above the Cebu coast, her grandmother's, was where she built the one that gave the land back what the quarry had taken.

interior4 min read

The House That Asked for Nothing

Niko had spent fifteen years collecting beautiful rooms. The Corfu slope was where he learned to stop.

hospitality4 min read

The Building That Had Been Waiting

Beatriz came back to Vegueta after twenty years to turn her great-aunt's house into a hotel. What she found, under seventy years of partition wall, was a building that had been waiting to be asked.

residential5 min read

The Score for a Quiet Coast

Anders came to Tenerife to finish a piece of music. He stayed because the silence, he discovered, was not absence of sound — it was a structure.

residential5 min read

The House That Was Already a Sentence

Teresa came back to La Palma to bury her father and found she had inherited a building that, properly read, was a complete piece of writing. She spent two years learning to punctuate it.

residential5 min read

The Room That Held the Sound

Miquel came back to his father's house on Ibiza to bury a record he could not finish. The house, restored around the room he had always needed, gave him a way to listen to it again.

residential4 min read

The House That Was Built to Disappear

Iris came to Paros because she could no longer be looked at for a living. The house we built for her does not announce itself, and she has not been announced since.

hospitality4 min read

The House That Held the Return

Helena's grandfather left Cefalonia in nineteen-fifty-two and never went back. She went back for him, and built, on the hill above Skala, the house he had described to her, in pieces, for thirty years.

hospitality5 min read

The House That Had Been a Village

Catalina inherited three stone houses on the Tramuntana and a family that could no longer agree what they were for. She made them into one place, and the place, in turn, made the family larger.

hospitality5 min read

The House That Was Its Own Architect

Andrés had restored other people's listed buildings for twenty years. The one on the Paseo Marítimo was his family's. It took him a year to understand that it did not need an architect. It needed a witness.

interior5 min read

The House They Stopped Performing

Sofia and Daniel had spent ten years building the Marbella the magazines expected of them. The villa in El Rosario was where they finally built the one they actually lived in.

residential5 min read

The House That Held a Whole Life

Stefanos had spent his career in the rooms where shipping is decided — glass towers, airport lounges, the particular anonymity of the international first class. The villa in Voula was where he learned to be in one place.

hospitality5 min read

The Pavilion That Became a Lantern

Nira had run other people's hotels for fifteen years. The villa above the Andaman, her first own property, was where she learned that the light a building gives off at dusk is the thing she had been working toward all along.

hospitality5 min read

The Palace the Forest Had Kept

Priyantha came back from London to renovate a building his grandfather had been the last to maintain. The forest had spent forty years doing what it could. The building, it turned out, had been waiting to be asked.

residential9 min read

The Patience of Pines

The house had stood empty since 2007 — a concrete skeleton the pines were quietly reclaiming. Ingrid and Pau bought it for the land, then spent two years earning the house.

interior9 min read

Hemp Opera

Camille had spent thirty years dreaming of the Côte d'Azur. By the time she could afford a house there, the Riviera had priced her out — so she followed the coastline south, to Cadaqués.

interior8 min read

The Arithmetic of Letting Go

The building had nearly been demolished. The marriage had definitely ended. Somehow, out of both, came a home for nine.

interior8 min read

When Houses Were Noble

Two centuries ago, a noble Catalan family left their courtyard house for something modern: an apartment in the sky. Montserrat inherited what was left of them — in boxes.

interior9 min read

The Cradle of Catalan Bohemia

It was never a club. It was a house above the sea at Sitges where, in the giddy years after Franco, a generation of Catalan artists met, argued, and invented what came next.

interior8 min read

Drawn Together

Most clients approve drawings. Rosa and Enric insisted on making them. For eleven months, their dining table in the Eixample became a second studio — and the penthouse became a portrait of two people learning to see.

interior7 min read

Almost Nothing

Viktor owns forty-one objects. Each one is exceptional. His apartment above Poblenou was designed around a simple, ferocious idea: less — but never lesser.

interior7 min read

What the Sea Left Behind

Aina's grandfather was a captain — and, the family admits after the second glass of wine, not always a lawful one. His apartment under Montjuïc was the only cargo he never declared.

interior9 min read

A Majlis by the Sea

The family is old, noble, and scattered across the capitals of three continents. In two years of work, no one ever mentioned money — the brief was measured in guests, generations, and honour.

interior8 min read

The Smallest Palace

Beltrán's family tree runs, by way of documents he keeps in a leather folder, to a king. He chose seventy square metres in Barceloneta — the densest, saltiest quarter of Barcelona — and calls it the family's finest address in two hundred years.

commercial8 min read

Before We Had a Name

The message arrived on LinkedIn, back when our studio was three desks and an argument: a hydroponic farmer, a robotics engineer, and a ballerina wanted a building with a metabolism.

commercial7 min read

A Riddle on the Water

What could unite a hemp producer from California, an art critic from New York, and a sound director from Milan? For two years, nothing. Then someone found the barge.

commercial7 min read

Where the Caravans Meet

Five entrepreneurs — from Kenya, Egypt, Angola, Oman, and Dubai — asked for a workspace with a strange requirement: it should remember eternity.

hospitality7 min read

The Shape of an Idea

They loved nature. They were entrepreneurs. Then they met the hemp builders, and the architects who work with robots — and the idea finally took its shape: a hotel that floats.

interior7 min read

The Architecture of a Day

The apartment had five bedrooms, three centuries of history, and one problem: its owners were never home at the hours when it was beautiful. So we redesigned the day itself.

hospitality9 min read

Eight Centuries, One Morning

A hospitality entrepreneur bought a medieval castle in the Empordà and asked us to turn it into a hotel without waking the ghosts. The moat became a pool. The ghosts approved.

commercial8 min read

Dining in the Garden

On Artxanda hill above Bilbao, a 1990s estate with Art Deco bones waited for someone to understand that the garden was the dining room all along.

residential10 min read

Fortress at the Edge

At the mouth of a Galician ría, where Felipe V built a coastal fortress in 1740, a family asked us to make 2,700 square metres of military stone feel like home. The Atlantic had opinions.

residential7 min read

Nine Months Outside

In Gava, twenty minutes from Barcelona, a family wanted a house with no corridors, no hallways, and no reason to close a door from April to December.

residential9 min read

White Walls and Wild Gardens

In the hills above Marbella, a cosmopolitan family wanted a villa that felt Andalusian without feeling like a museum. One thousand square metres of restraint in a landscape that does the talking.

interior8 min read

Two Worlds, Stacked

Katarina wanted a home that felt like a garden in the sky. Her husband wanted a theatre of dark wood and marble. We gave them both — stacked.

residential8 min read

Walls That Remember

Inside Ibiza's Dalt Vila — a UNESCO fortress, a heritage authority, and a client who wanted to live in the 21st century without erasing the 16th.

residential8 min read

A House That Finally Listened

Marcus and Eleni had built three houses before they met us. All three were beautiful. None of them felt like home.

hospitality9 min read

Invisible Architecture

On a private Maldivean atoll, the brief was impossible: build a villa that disappears. Eight hundred square metres of architecture that the Indian Ocean agreed to keep.

hospitality9 min read

Where Mountain Meets Sea

In the Maresme hills above Barcelona, 2,500 square metres of wellness architecture that treats the landscape as the primary therapy.

residential9 min read

Building at Altitude

Theo sold his company for nine figures and moved to the Pyrenees to find silence. What he found instead was that silence has to be designed.

hospitality9 min read

Breathing at Altitude

In the Bernese Oberland, where the air temperature drops to minus fifteen and the views are worth every degree of discomfort, we designed a spa chalet that inhales the mountain and exhales warmth.

hospitality9 min read

Dancing with Earthquakes

Sofia and Nikos bought their dream villa on Zakynthos. Three weeks later, a structural survey revealed gaps between the foundation sections — seventy-year-old concrete, no reinforcement, built before modern seismic codes existed. The house had to come down.

residential7 min read

Five Opinions, One House

Two cultures, five opinions, one plot above the Mediterranean. The previous designer quit. We saw the argument as the brief.

residential10 min read

Stone, Oak, and Time

In the medieval heart of the Penedes wine country, a 1,500-square-metre heritage villa asked us to preserve five centuries of stone while installing the 21st century behind it.

hospitality10 min read

Between Two Centuries

Francesca inherited a protected villa on Lake Como and a war with the heritage authorities. We found the corridor between preservation and ambition.

interior9 min read

Forty-Seven Lights

A New York loft as a reference point, a Barcelona penthouse as the destination. Somewhere between the two, Dylan learned that restraint is not the absence of luxury — it is its highest form.