Latest articles by Suzanne Wales
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Born again: Gaudí’s meticulously restored Casa Vicens reopens in Barcelona
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The best of RCR: we cast an eye over some of the 2017 Pritzker Prize winner’s projects
This year’s Pritzker Prize winners, RCR (made up of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta), have likened themselves to a jazz trio, each one experimenting with new languages and forms of expression to make a harmonious whole. A fourth element could be added: the deliriously beautiful countryside near Olot, the northern Catalan town where they all live and work. Much of their oeuvre is impossible to separate from the context of the region’s textured landscape of ancient lava flows, icy rivers and low-rise mountains. Explore some of the firm's local projects here...
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New roots: Europe’s largest cactus garden springs from an industrial wasteland
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Soho House's latest opening is on a secluded beach near Barcelona
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High line: Barcelona’s elevated public space brings a bucolic bent to the cityscape
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Community matters: A-cero transform an old covered market in Spain
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Marine life: OneOcean by SCOB reinvents Barcelona's Port Vell
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Guiding lights: the new-wave names in sunglass making
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What’s cooking: SelgasCano talk to us about their new work
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The new Els Encants Vells by b720 Arquitectos opens in Barcelona
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Point of calm: Barcelona gets an experimental information point on Plaça de les Glòries
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European architecture up for debate in Barcelona
We dispatch from the Mies van der Rohe architecture award ceremony in Barcelona where architects from 38 countries join to discuss the future of architecture and urbanism. From a reimagining of a communist square in Tirana, to the redevelopment of a 1960s housing estate in Bordeaux and a co-living co-creating concrete block in Berlin – we make our own edit of some of the worthy and wonderful 40 shortlisted projects.
