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Notes on environments with intent, premium residential development and the work of the studio.
public spaces · 31 August 2026
Shade now has an author
Barcelona runs a shade programme worth €11M and has put its three busiest locations out to competition, with architectural quality written into the brief. All three winning schemes take their form from their own place. That is how shade came to have an author, and with it a different conversation about money.
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process · 3 August 2026
The Seam Splits Where the Contract Ends
On the render the piece is seamless. In reality it is assembled through many hands, and the result is lost at the borders between them. What one signature changes across the whole route, from idea to installation.
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materials · 21 July 2026
The piece that needs no upkeep
316L stainless steel, PVD colour, electropolishing. Why we choose the most resistant metal that makes sense and the most proven technologies - and what that gives a council or a shopping centre.
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hotels · 13 July 2026
The First Sentence of a Hotel
A week after the trip, a hotel shrinks to a single sentence, the one a guest uses to describe it to friends. The next person chooses where to stay by that sentence, and it is written by the entrance and the lobby, in the first few seconds, before you reach the front desk.
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shopping-centres · 6 July 2026
The Christmas Designed in July
Every December, shopping centres share the same flow of families. It goes to the one where Christmas works as an environment: the reason a family chooses that centre and comes back. An environment like that takes three to four months to build. So the decision about December is taken in summer.
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hotels · 30 June 2026
The one piece that makes a hotel or a residential development memorable
People read the class of a place in the first few seconds, from the communal areas. One precise piece in the lobby or the courtyard gives a development recognition, free reach on social media and a reason to return or to choose.
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shopping centres · 22 June 2026
A shopping centre only gains footfall where it has an identity of its own
Average footfall at Spain's shopping centres is flat, while the gap between them keeps widening. We look at what makes a visitor stay, and how to measure it.
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courtyards · 23 May 2026
The courtyard as the first solid argument for a home
The architecture is built, and the communal grounds stay at basic landscaping. This is the stretch where the premium buyer decides between neighbouring developments.
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concept · 18 May 2026
The architect is there. The concept lead is not. What this means for the premium residential developer.
The architect builds the building. The interior designer shapes the rooms. So whose job is the identity of the environment?
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