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Magaceen, Palma de Mallorca (2026)

02/05/2023

Architecture
Es Pou House
📐 Marià Castelló Martínez
📷 Marià Castelló Martínez
📍 Formentera, Spain
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The work is fragmented into three independent white volumes, reducing its scale and blending better into the landscape of wheat and oat fields as well as almond and fig trees.
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From south to north, the first block harbors a porch, the second the dwelling’s shared spaces, and the third two bedrooms. Ceramic materials are present in the roof finishes, the Majorcan-style vaults, the lattices, the facade claddings. Some of the vertical surfaces include vitrified green tiles, not to mention the pressed terracotta tiles of the pavements.

Most of the furniture is custom-designed, as is a set of luminaires and special pieces, prepared artisanally with formworks in Marià Castelló’s studio. Chairs of Mediterranean craft tradition are mixed with contemporary elements, such as the table and small tables of the D12 series, which give the ensemble a material and chromatic counterpoint.
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01/05/2023

Architecture
8 social dwellings in Palma de Mallorca
📐 Alfonso Reina Ferragut, Antonio Martín Procopio, Carles G. Oliver, Xim Moyá y Miguel Nevado
📷 José Hevia
📍 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer.
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A heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint is complemented by cross ventilation and the sea breeze (the embat). The sandstone from the islands – marés –, used for both structure and Shell has been extracted from the city of Palma, and is one of the local industrialized materials with a smaller carbon footrpint. The hygrothermal materials of the structure are exposed to control the high humidity on the island.

At ground level, barrel vaults rest on supports that transfer horizontal stress. The free space between supports generates kitchens, pantries, storage, windows, and accesses. On the first floor, the supports are reduced to hold a lightweight structure of timber trusses with steel struts. Bedroom partitions are of wood to allow new layouts in the future, and the sloping roof is made of traditional Arab ceramic tile.
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27/04/2023

Architecture
Neue Nationalgalerie Refurbishment
📐 David Chipperfield Architects
📷 Simon Menges
📍 Berlin, Germany
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The icon of 20th-century modern architecture, a work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, has been refurbished by David Chipperfield Architects.
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The Neue Nationalgalerie was designed and built by Mies van der Rohe between 1963 and 1968, in his final years. It is the only building carried out back in Europe by the German-born master who had emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and headed the architecture school of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, among other things. The historic museum needed a renovation and updating for our times. The intervention of the british architect has restored the more deteriorated areas and brought the institution in line with today’s technical standards.

The question posed by David Chipperfield’s project was how to strike a suitable balance between preserving the building as an architectural monument with fitting it out as an up-to-date museum of modern art. The additions deemed necessary and eventually executed, always subordinated to the building’s original essence, are perfectly legible as contemporary elements. Overall, then, the refurbishment is not so much a new interpretation, but a respectful repair and an adaptation to the contemporary life of an emblem.
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26/04/2023

New in MAGACEEN!!
Architecture
House No. 1
📐 Pachón–Paredes
📷 Luis Asín
📍 Madrid, España
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Panchón Paredes have transformed, refurbished, and adapted the interior, exterior, and in-between spaces of a dark and compartmentalized 1978 dwelling.
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The new configuration addresses the needs of the occupants, who wanted a place in which to live, work or exercise. The spaces are neutral, flexible, and adaptable to genealogical changes and their consequences. The original perimeter has been broken up by courtyards, terraces, and balconies, and each level is divided longitudinally into two bays measuring 3.5 and 5.5 meters, with an 86-centimeter level difference.

In this way, what was a dark, much partitioned old residence is now open and bright, and the staircase is no longer a spatial and lighting obstacle but an essential heterogeneous space. All the strategies applied were aimed at making the new spaces as bright as possible, and with a palette of neutral materials, so it’s the inhabitants and their belongings that will fill the place with color.
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24/04/2023

Architecture
FRIHA. House on a hill
📐 Amunt
📷 Rasmus Norlander
📍 Menzenschwand, Deutschland
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Surrounded by imposing mountaints, FRIHA is a small wooden cabin of great quality, meant to be shared during vacation periods.
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The rooms of this 110 m² dwelling – foyer, kitchen-dining room, living room, fireplace room… – succeed one another in two volumes that follow the complicated topography of the site. This stepped descent is accompanied by picture windows framing breathtaking panoramas of the Alps, blunting one’s sense of being indoors. A central staircase connects the ground floor to the more compact and private upper level, where the rooms are small refuges featuring different themes.

The fine timber shell that the pitched roof is rests over the building volumes, which rise at a 45º angle in relation to the slope of the land. The floorplan looks abstract but the layout makes it possible to maintain a visual connection with the idyllic surroundings, refraining from getting too close to the neighboring constructions. It also enlarges the surface of the facade, facilitating the capture of solar rays and natural light, and hence minimizing the need for the cabin to be lit and warmed artificially.
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23/04/2023

New in Magaceen!!
Kilda Food
📐 Ignacio Frade
📷 David Zarzoso
📍 Madrid, Spain
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The renovation is marked by the strong geometry of the premise. Opening the floor plan reinforces the sense of magnitude of the interior.
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A perimetral action adapts to the needs of the bar’s program, and on the introduction of pieces that organize the space into two parallel areas: the central bar, which differentiates the public space from the production area, is joined by an oblique volume placed at the back of the room that also serves as a filter. A service window gives direct access to the delivery staff from the lobby, avoiding unnecessary circulation.

The relationship between processing and customers is direct, thanks to a fully integrated open kitchen and living room. The space is clad in a dark tone such as plaster, relegating the corporate green to ceilings, added elements and, in particular, part of the wall that had been chipped in the demolition of the previous acoustic insulation. The set of custom-made metal furniture reinforces the industrial character of the intervention.
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20/04/2023

Architecture
Litibú
📐 Palma
📷 Luis Young
📍 Litibu, Mexico
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In Litibu, a small town in Mexico, on the Pacific Rim, a 50 m2 bungalow applies different bioclimatic design strategies to adapt to the humid coastal climate.
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This small refuge was commissioned by a couple from Las Vegas who wanted a place of their own in Mexico to spend periods in. A tight budget limited the built-up area, but this was an invitation to harness the beauty of local traditions through a palette of warm colors and materials typical of tropical places. The bedroom and the living spaces are put in two separate volumes, forming an open central patio with a large circular perforation.

The particular climate of Mexico’s Pacific coast was determinant in the design. High ceilings made of palapa cover the main spaces but can be opened up completely. To combat moisture on the walls, pigmented plaster was used instead of paint. Built with concrete, indoor elements like the kitchen countertop, the shelves, and the lintels, are shown on the facade, in a fun breakaway from the scheme’s general symmetry.
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19/04/2023

Architecture
The Hill in Front of the Glen
📐 HW Studio
📷 Dane Alonso, César Béjar
📍 Morelia, Mexico
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A mountain shelter in continuity with the beauty around, forming one more hill among many.
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The project is mimicked in the landscape, manifesting its presence only with concrete walls. Two to retain the soil, and the other two to form a path wide enough to pass through but narrow enough to do so in single file. The access to the house slopes downward slightly, conducive to reflection, interrupted only by a vigorous tree and culminating in a gentle vault that marks the entrance.

The public areas are placed left of the house and face a ravine, while on the other side the more private zones are organized around a courtyard from which one can gaze at the sky and the treetops. A reduced palette of materials – stone, wood, concrete, and steel – combines with strategies to conceal MEP services, electrical appliances, and light fittings, creating an ancestral atmosphere, the primitive mountain refuge.
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16/04/2023

Architecture
Casa del Cantó
📐 Piano Piano Studio
📷 Milena Villalba
📍 Foios, Spain
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Valencia-based Piano Piano Studio inserts a dwelling between party walls, taking inspiration from local constructions.
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Located in Foios, a municipality in the comarca of La Huerta Norte (Valencia), the site conditions determine the orientation and massing of the construction, resulting in a house with a long side facing west and a short one south. The rhythms, materials, and forms chosen for the project are inspired by the nearby constructions, characterized by a taller central piece containing the actual domestic uses while the smaller volume, at the corner, is storage.

The Casa del Cantó however inverts this traditional order presenting a larger volume northward and southward a terrace over a carport covered with an openwork false façade. The house is accessed through a crack between the two volumes, leading to a courtyard that becomes another of the house’s living spaces. In this way, the 249-square-meter dwelling addresses its context using an at once vernacular and contemporary language.
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15/04/2023

Architecture
Borgo Gallana
📐 Studio Andrew Trotter
📷 Salva López
📍 Puglia, Italy
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Borgo Gallana is a collection of three white stone traditional houses located amongst olive trees in the countryside of Oria, Puglia.
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With already two existing structures in the land, Studio Andrew Trotter designed a courtyard between them, and two staircases on both sides. Also, the existing properties were extended in order to obtain three self-contained houses composed by king-sized beds, bathrooms with showers, kitchens, large and original living rooms and private terraces. On the other side of the land, a 40 square meters pool was created.

Architecturally, vaulted ceilings and cement floors were used through the whole property. Local sandstone “tufo” is the main material used for the construction of the structures. The bespoke and locally made bathroom sinks and kitchen tops were designed by the Studio, as well as the outdoor metal wall lamp in black powder coated finish. The interiors have been furnished and styled with vintage tables, chairs, ceramics and lamps.
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12/04/2023

Architecture
Dream & Maze
📐 Studio10
📷 Chao Zhang
📍 Pingle County, China
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The Other Place is a creative hotel close to the Li River in Pingle County (Guilin, China) and Studio 10 has renovated two of its thematic rooms, Dream and Maze.
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Inspired by the work of M.C. Escher, the architect wanted to create a mysterious, infinite, impossible space through a seamless transition between 2D and 3D, and with elements forming optical illusions.

Maze uses a deep green tone that strikes a contrast with the white. In this room we find stairs that seem to challenge the laws of gravity and which lead us to golden doors, behind which is a path to a secret forest and other surprising findings. The Dream project in turn presents a palette of colors in white and soft pink, contrasting with the black doors.

The palettes of colors in both rooms, the purity of the volumes, and the lack of decor are meant to keep guests safe from the chaos of mundane life. All components of the real world, such as lighting fixtures and electrical appliances, are concealed, maintaining the pristine chimeric character of the space.
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