The Barcelona museum’s outgoing director Marko Daniel discusses the close relationship between architect and artist, the challenges of upgrading the landmark building, and the delicate question of daylight.
The new branch of Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso is a mixed-program venue that resulted from an ambitious adaptive-reuse scheme by local firms Husos and Elii.
Open to the public late last year, the aim of De Roca Madre was to spark dialogue around environmental shifts in relation to the slow, often invisible forces of geological change.
Designed by local architect Jose Fernández-Llebrez, this understated multifamily home contains three apartments on four floors for a couple and the families of their two adult children.
Clad in dark metal panels and floating above a concrete basin that doubles as a shaded patio, this modern expansion of a 50-year-old country house contrasts with the original structure in just about every way possible.