Skip to content

Author: SpainHouses.net

1

Published on 1 Comment on The Russians are coming! Russian Meeting Point in Marbella

The place and time to be in real estate: Russian Meeting Point Marbella, 14 -16 March 2012

padierna - The Russians are coming! Russian Meeting Point in MarbellaA month from now, the Russian Meeting Point will take place in Marbella. It is claimed to be "the" saving board for our Spanish Real Estate Market.

The “Russian Meeting Point” is organized by Barcelona Meeting Point in cooperation with the President of the Andalusian Federation of Urban Developers and Residential Tourism and the owner of the Hotel Villa Padierna Palace, Ricardo Arranz.

The event will thereby take place at Villa Padierna Hotel on the 14th – 16th March, as mentioned. It aims at getting together hundreds of Russian investors and real estate agents with the entrepreneurs of the “Golden Triangle”, for the purpose of releasing the stock of properties available in the areas of Marbella, Estepona and Benahavís.

...continue reading "The Russians are coming! Russian Meeting Point in Marbella"

Published on Leave a comment on Il cielo iGuzzini. Spain Headquarters

iGuzzini Illuminazione Spain SA Headquarters by MiAS Architects

"Structure is where light is".- Kahn. Situated in Barcelona, iGuzzini Illuminazione Headquarters seems unfinished. It reminds me to ancient sacred pantheons, although its definitely modern. It's a sphere which plays with light and structure.

"There is no need for demagogy to explain a building” affirms Josep Miàs (miasarchitects.com), talking about the recently finished new iGuzzini Illuminazione headquarters building in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona). The exterior architecture of the project should exert some kind of visual strength effect, suggesting being in movement.

Miàs began his project “with something similar to an aerostatic balloon”, which would stay “almost suspended”.

Light, managed with special sensitivity as a fundamental theme, due to iGuzzini’s dedication to illumination design, gets completely integrated in the conception of a big spherical volume whose only spine is a great central void where the whole building is hanging.

dezeen iGuzzini Illuminazione Espana SA Headquarters by MiAS Architects 22 - Il cielo iGuzzini. Spain Headquarters

 

...continue reading "Il cielo iGuzzini. Spain Headquarters"

1

Published on 1 Comment on Spanish Real Estate Agents Demand Tax Incentives for Foreign Investors

They demand banks not to lower house pricing, instead, lower fiscal pression on foreign house buyers

rajoy - Spanish Real Estate Agents Demand Tax Incentives for Foreign InvestorsPresident of Spanish Real Estate Agents and Constructors Association (APCE), José Manuel Galindo, demands not to lower construction assets to "excessively low levels" due to consequences on Real Estate. Instead, he asks of banks to act according to interest rate or installment plans.

Looking abroad would only benefit Spain according to Mr. Galindo. For that reason, he propose "tax incentives not only to resisdents but also foreigners".

Turns out there are more factors than house pricing to persuade house hunters. Last Tuesday we read on El Mundo newspaper how mortgages would go down even more during 2012.

"No matter how much we lower prices when there's no financing available to buyers".- added Mr. Galindo.

...continue reading "Spanish Real Estate Agents Demand Tax Incentives for Foreign Investors"

Published on Leave a comment on Miralles Tagliabue’s new architectural projects

Miralles Tagliabue's works shape several parts of the globe with a Spanish touch

miralles taglibue 300x168 - Miralles Tagliabue's new architectural projectsThe Spanish architectural world is a buoyant enterprise. It might surprise some to hear that Spain has a vibrant culture of contemporary architecture.

Delayed by the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship under Franco, the emergence of modernity in Spain may have been late in coming, but today’s young architects are making up for lost time in a spectacular way.

Original personalities like César Manrique Cabrera marked a move toward the modern in the 1960s, while Richard Bofill’s innovative work in the ’70s helped bring Spanish architecture to the world stage. In the 1990s, architects such as Rafael Moneo and Santiago Calatrava began to create the look of contemporary architecture in Spain as we know it.

The book Architecture in Spain guides us through some of the most important architects. Today, we are glad to show the work of Miralles Tagliabue, whose projects, designed from his office in Barcelona, are shaping several parts of the globe with a Spanish touch.

Let us taste some of his talent.

...continue reading "Miralles Tagliabue’s new architectural projects"

Published on Leave a comment on Hundred year-old Alhóndiga in Bilbao

A solemn building but original and full of surprises that will leave no one indifferent.

starck - Hundred year-old Alhóndiga in Bilbao

No words to describe the old and modernist wine warehouse, declared “Public Property of Cultural Interest” by the Basque Government in 1999, called the Alhóndiga in Bilbao. It includes the creation of new areas under the supervision of French designer Philippe Starck.

Starck is a tireless artist. When he visited Bilbao he immediately fell in love with it and the Alhóndiga Project and started to work on it immediately after. As a result of this connection, a new urban area has flowered up. A solemn room, but original and full of surprises that will leave no one indifferent.

Let's take a look at this impressive building. Our favorite area: the library.

...continue reading "Hundred year-old Alhóndiga in Bilbao"

1

Published on 1 Comment on Open your windows to inspiration

Decorate your windows with style. Most windows fall into one of these categories: portrait (taller than wide), landscape (wider than high) or square. 

windows 240x300 - Open your windows to inspirationLight is the essence of every house. No matter how well you decorated your house if, when it comes to light, yours is a gloomy home.

When it comes to interior design ideas remember that in any home, a style that suits the people living there and their way of life is essential. Think first of your own style in order to decorate your home. Are you modern? Fancy dreamy colors as blue? Or vivid and powerful colors such as orange?

Take a look at space, Is it a small apartment? In any case, large windows will make the best out of your rooms. It will enhance your decoration and fill your living-room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom with taste.

Most windows fall into one of these categories: portrait (taller than wide), landscape (wider than high) or square. There can, of course, be multiples of these and in some cases, two or more portrait windows that are side by side in a wall may become a landscape shape. Portrait windows are the most common shape and the most versatile in terms of how they can be dressed. They are often set high in the wall and can extend to the floor as with French windows. Portrait windows can take a pair of curtains in any style, most forms of blind or a single curtain, perhaps extended to the floor to accentuate the shape and held with a tieback on one side.

...continue reading "Open your windows to inspiration"

Published on Leave a comment on Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association Prize

Winner ARCHITECTURE: MUCA. Auditorium + Music Centre in Alicante

MRodenas JOlivares - Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer's Association Prize

The Auditorium of Algueña and Casa Collage in Girona’s Call district win the Tile of Spain Awards.

Algueña is a small town in the interior of the province of Alicante, with a population of 2,000 and an economy based on agriculture and the marble industry.

The brilliant arquitectures of this magnific enterprise were asked to create a building that was capable of bringing together all of the different activities associated with the world of music and culture that take place in the town, together with cultural promotion in the future.

In the authors words: "Faced with this situation, together with the creation of an extensive programme associated with music and a maximum budget of 562,800 €, we initially proposed refurbishing a former Civil Guard barracks that had been empty since the 1980s, providing us with a surface area of 670 m2 that only needed adapting, and the construction of a new auditorium measuring 350 m2 and 230 seats. The second stage would involve the creation of a park with an open-air auditorium that would serve as a connecting point between the town and its area of future urban expansion".

...continue reading "Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association Prize"

Published on Leave a comment on Tune your floor

We introduce you to FLOR tiles. Amazing flooring design for your home.

Choosing flooring for your home is no easy task. you need to take into account many variables such as what room it will be used in, the size of the space, the climate in the room, who will use the room and what it will be used for, how long the flooring needs to last, what kind of wear and tear it will need to withstand and how much it will cost, to name but a few.

Nontheless, we'll introduce you here today to a new kind of flooring. FLOR tiles. No nails, padding or glue is required.  They're easy to replace should they get damaged and easy to take up and clean if necessary. Such a pity it's only available in the US and Canada!

Soft Touch Quartz FA11 - Tune your floor

...continue reading "Tune your floor"

Published on Leave a comment on Spanish National Energy Museum in Leon

The Spanish National Energy Museum proclaims sustainability and renewable energy. 

Museo Energia Acebo - Spanish National Energy Museum in Leon

The Spanish National Energy Museum will be built out of the ruins of two old and isolated nuclear plants in Leon.

If you take a look of the images of the current state of these nuclear plants, you can't but think this is the perfect metaphor. Proclaiming sustainable energy on the ruins of nuclear plants. 

...continue reading "Spanish National Energy Museum in Leon"

Published on Leave a comment on Good design will save the world

Super Slim Outdoors Indoors Home in Japan is Capped with a Rock Climbing Wall

outdoors indoors be fun design 11 - Good design will save the world

 

Good design will save the world it's the Inhabit slogan. Indeed, this slim outdoors indoors home is a great example of it. "Be-fun-design teamed up with the folks from EANA to give an active couple in Shinagawa-Ku, Japan a home that allows them to enjoy their outdoor activities inside! For starters, they capped the upper storey with a fun climbing wall, and then created a rooftop terrace full of leafy greens that can be reached with a nifty ladder. As if all that were not enough, the slim section of the roof looks like a chimney, but it's actually a skylight well that pumps a flood of daylight right down to the ground floor".
...continue reading "Good design will save the world"