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Architect Turns Old Cement Factory Into His Home, And The Interior Will Take Your Breath Away
When Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon a dilapidated cement factory in 1973, he immediately saw a world of possibilities. La fábrica was born, and almost 45 years later, the structure has been completely transformed into a spectacular and unique home.
The factory, located just outside of Barcelona, was a WWI-era pollution machine that had closed down, and came with many repairs to be done when Ricardo Bofill and his team purchased it. After years of partial deconstruction, the determined architect proceeded to lace the exterior of the property with vegetation, and furnish the interior as a modern living and work space.
La fábrica is a work in progress to this day, to which Bofill likens his own life, as his visions for the future continue to change shape. The industrial chimneys that once filled the air with smoke now overflow with lush greenery, a fine example of the beautiful transformations that result from creative thinking.
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In 1973, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill purchased a WWI-era cement factory near Barcelona
He immediately saw potential in the building, and began renovating it into his home
After years of partial deconstruction, his team proceeded to furnish the interior as a modern living space
The exterior was laced with vegetation, and now overflows with lush greenery
The structure has been completely transformed into a spectacular and unique home
“The Cement Factory is a place of work par excellence” Bofill writes on his official website
Each room is designed with its own special purpose, and no 2 look quite alike
“I have the impression of living… in a closed universe which protects me from the outside and everyday life” Bofill writes
“Life goes on here in a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and leisure”
A variety of indoor and outdoor relaxation spots can be found throughout the property
Work space is also a crucial component here, as Bofill’s team uses part of the residence as a studio
The exterior is mostly covered by grass, but also eucalyptus, palm, and olive trees
This gives the building a “mysterious aspect of romantic ruin that makes it unique and unrepeatable”
“The kitchen-dining room located in the ground floor is the meeting point for the family”
Despite its incredible transformation, the factory is still a work in progress to this day
Bufill likens the project’s constant evolution to his own lifestyle and creative visions
La fábrica will always have further work to be done, which is part of its symbolic charm
With enough creative thinking, any space can become something new and beautiful
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Share on FacebookThis man's home is definitely his fortress. His interior designer had a lot of fun too.
He doesn't strike me as someone who would bother with a decorator. The home is very organic and everything plays together beautifully. No matter how hard they try, decorators (or "designers", but that's not a professional designation) can't do that. It's taken him 40-odd years to get the house to where it is now.
Load More Replies...With enough MONEY, anything can be transformed, is I believe the correct statement.
It takes more than money, one must be able to imagine, visualize and create. Many millionaires would not have been able to envision the potential of such a site.
Load More Replies...This is just beautiful..and calming...a great project
Load More Replies...This is fascinating! Read the story .... get past the word salad of the first few paragraphs. I'm curious of the amount of money spent to date on the renovation. Anybody know ?
concrete doesn't age very well...not sure what it will look like in 50 years...But for now it is indeed gorgeous!
It's already over 80 years old. I don't think it's going anywhere any time soon.
Load More Replies...because there is plant a little bit everywhere it's eco-friendly??
Load More Replies...About that heat bill you who are worried about it, do you know what kind of climate it takes to grow eucalyptus and palm trees as it says? A warm one. There you go.
The house was shown by Paulina Rubio years ago on MTV Crips when she was the girlfriend of Ricardo Bofill Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
LOL I think you meant MTV CriBs. MTV CriPs would be quite a different show alltogether ;)
Load More Replies...This is absolutely beautiful. I feel like I could live happily in any one of these rooms!
This would be super cool to rent out for a week for the whole family to do a fun little trip or something.
The fella is a world renowned architect and worth millions of pounds, might have something to do with how he did this. Now if it had been joe bloggs working in the factory for 40 years to pay for it, different story. Headline should be something like 'author writes book', same as.
Can someone help me out here ? I'm ok da new at this so trying to figure out a way to post my photos !
Go to your profile, then read everything it says. It can't be easier, really. :)
Load More Replies...Ohhhhh, this is magnificent*** It takes an artist to accomplish this, just awesome!
PLEASE STOP USING THE DESCRIPTIVES "WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY", "JAW DROPPINGLY", "WILL BLOW YOUR MIND", and "WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED/SPEECHLESS". THERE'S NO QUICKER DETERRENT TO READING AN ARTICLE THAN SEEING ANY OF THOSE PHRASES IN THE PIECE. ENOUGH ALREADY.
THIS GOES TO SHOW TO ME THAT INSTEAD OF THIS WHOLESALE APPROACH TEARING THINGS DOWN THAT ARE OLD OR NOT IN USE ANYMORE, THAT IF ONE SIT BACK ANLOOKS AND RETHINKS THINGS, THIS IS THE END RESULT AND IT IS STUNNING AND RETAINS THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER OF THE IMMEDIATE AREA.
Truly Amazing. I am sure more than money was invested, looks like a lot of time as well. But the pay off is outstanding. Great vision. well done!
I am not impressed. Or just maybe it's just my taste. I so would have a water room. With a waterfall shower. A spa. A lap pool. And a green room with plants with a large bathtub. And your choice of music. Oh man I would be there all day.....
I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED THIS!!!! Paulina Rubio lived here. It was featured on MTV Cribs from WAY back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
really breath taking. but the meeting room a bit frightening for me, with those tubes. makes me feel like the cement could come out, and land on the the table.. :)
Should say "With enough **money**, any space can become something new and beautiful"
Living in this during summer vacation would be great. https://casagranda.vn/collections/gach-y
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I love that it looks like a castle and all the greenery- wow!
Paulina Rubio lived there, as seen in MTV Cribs https://youtu.be/RTZfnO743Ig
This is a killer living space. I thought the guy with the home in the missile silo had a nice one, but this takes the cake.
It gets creepy if u watch jeepers, creepers, house on haunted hill, and night of the demons
It probably kinda get creepy if u watch movies like jeepers creepers and house on haunted hill
With enough millions of dollars anything can become beautiful & interesting ! I do like the castle effect, but would have painted the whole thing white or cream to start and then work on it - my only dislike is the cement color.
Beautiful and incredible, is a sign of good taste and harmony. Congratulationes
I wonder what his electricity bills are on winter. Also does it have any insulation?
This is amazing! I'm sure the money spent renovating it was worth it because I imagine him and his family will be living their forever. It's huge! I'd love to live there
that is amazing.... how much does it cost because it looks like a kingdom for 1
Portugal will have a lot of this in a short future, any candidates?😉
Ricardo Bofill Leví is a Spanish architect, who, since 1963, continues to lead the international architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Ricardo Bofill was born into a family of builders in 1939 in Barcelona.
WOW that is one of the most awesome looking houses that I have seen in quite some time I would LOVE to live in something like that ;=]]
"Life goes on here in a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and leisure." You say. Yet, there is not even one person in any picture; no signs of life nor leisure, although the images imply luxurious tidings. I think it is a beautiful concept and thoughtfully executed design, but also a bit sterile in terms of representation. Look but don't touch. A site like this holds such great potential for social gathering and cultural rumination. Factories like this one probably employed hundreds of people, to rethink, rebuild and depict it devoid of humans seems a bit off. Also, there are significant indications that a clear separation between work and life is crucial for mental health...but you are free to argue that one with me.
Stunningly creative ,was this your friend Dan's creation and did you see it or were you never in Barcelona ?
No simple feat...creative and visionary in it"s presentation of aesthetic Beauty...
This place is an "INCREDIBLE," "ARCHITECTURAL"-----"Wonder!!!" I have NO words to express how AMAZING this dwelling place is !! BEYOND GENIUS !!
This place is truly unusual! Had a pleasure to visit and photograph it. Here is some more photos -- http://www.liabekyan.com/#/ricardobofill/
Absolutely breathtaking! I love recycling, but this gives a whole new meaning to the word! <3
Architect also have to thank to his previous colleague which has desighned that factory in such round forms)
I like it to be an office but as a home, looks scary at night, too much wasted space and high maintenance like the interior cleaning and the exterior landscaping. Hotel may be.:)
Gorgeous! But there's definitely no energy efficiency in this building. I don't know what it takes to warm up thos rooms. :)
It is t.h.e. dream of a living place, really awesome! I think, I've married the wrong man...
Absolutely gorgeous and beautiful. After his gone to heaven. I hope someone continues his work
Beyond Fabulous. So much character. So interesting. So peaceful I would love to see this in person
These places are amazing but I can't imagine the utilities.
His place is huge, Imagine how much cement he has to use to create that structure.!:P
I'm not sure about the silo above the dining table - a bit threatening at mealtimes. But otherwise an amazingly gentle space from brutal beginnings
More like with enough money, any space can become something new and beautiful.
Yep, he lives in 10,000 sqft space, all protected and secured, while the average earth dweller lives in about 300 sqft hut.
cool, thanks for sharing, but it's pretty s****y not to explicitly state you ripped everything off go his website. that's the name of the game, that's why it's linked, I get that, but it's not okay to not bother crediting the photographer (Richard Powers). Yes, you found the photos on the internet but a) you probably don't have the right to use them b) at least bother to give credit.
To be completely honest, the outside impressed me much more than the inside. This is one of the coolest places to live in I've ever seen.
If I accidentally post the same comment twice, that's redundant, right? But what if I do it a third time :D
With the vegetation, reminds me of what the Hanging Gardens of Babylon might look like!! Beautiful!
Love it....Love the openness ,love the arches. Truly stunning without being stuff and cold. Very inviting.
Love it! Old mixed with new. Sheer white against aged stone and woodwork. Solid heavy structured base with light flowing fabrics, you just can't beat that.
While much of this is beautiful, I can't help and note how sterile the inside environs are.
Personally I don't see the wow in it, some parts are nice, but others, for example the table under those cement mixers or whatever they were, the large canalization pipes visible here and there, the raw, cold, massive concrete walls, gives me no desire or attraction for a place like this, which I would just recommend as "original". It just reflects the author's personality, but I don't think many people would live in this place for more than a few days.
What a great visionary, to look at something like it was and see what it could be and then to make it so. Love the plants taking away the hardness of cement and adding so much color and texture. Amazing I bet to see in person, the scale of the buildings must be something else.
I am so impressed! Love the space, creativity, design, working and living spaces. It is a place where I could live and create without even the need to leave the residence. It has everything necessary to inspire and recover any soul. It gives straight new ideas too, like adding water in the whole picture.
Love that Gaudí chair next to the piano. This all feels very Antoni Gaudí inspired.
Love it. It reminds me of the castle in the sky from Hayao Miyazaki. It has something majestic and melancholic
Love it. It reminds me of the castle in the sky from Hayao Miyazaki. It has something majestic and melancholy.
I am wondering about washing the white curtains ... pulling them down everytime :/
Great and full of imagintion! so big that it must be a nightmare to clean, unless you have really a big staff of cleaners to do it
I'm guessing the name means The Fabric?. Very cool idea I wish I could just go live out in my own dream home.
It means The Factory. Fabric and fábrica are false cognates, they mean different things.
Load More Replies...such a subject reactivated in this way could be a gorgeous hotel...
This place is fantastic. The vision from the outset and the gradual development is clearly well thought out and no doubt changed over the years. Sorry to say it but it would make a fantastic hotel. Absolutely love it.
AwwwwMyGod. As an Interior designer, I rarely use this term. This is spectacular...it's a dream.
I love it and want it.But could never ever afford to even just have a look in real.May light and happiness be with 7ou and your house/building.
I really want to go there, visit the place, be amazed and have a lot of selfie pictures in entire home. Its really WOW me :)
It's really worth between the money he's spent with the interior he's got
AMAZING< wish I could find a place to lifetime the change with! duane tough
This is what inspired genius looks like...took my breath away...WOW!!!
I'm surprised he said the vegetation gave it a feel of ruins, I assumed he did it as a sort of repayment to the environment from the pollution it would have caused as a factory
Amazing creativity and vision!!! But ummm...two small but insignificant questions: 1. How much did it cost buy and renovate? 2. How much costs to maintain it??
Very beautiful, creative and stunning! I just don't want to imagine what a pain it has to be, to keep this home clean. xD
i think he who afford this home also affords a maintenance staff
Load More Replies...Hey, those images are not pictures but CGI renders! Does anyone know who is the artist who did them? They are so gorgeous!
Those are pictures. You can see walkthroughs of the house on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQlWkYijLM
Load More Replies...Hey, those are CGI renders not actual pictures of this guy's house. Does anyone knows which artist did them? They are so gorgeous!
Gorgeous! Mysterious and enchanting. My only practical concern is how much he pays to heat and cool those huge interiors.
I dunno, original, but somehow... too much cement around. But I bet it`s grounds are inhabitated with some really cool creatures! Great work!
Superb work. I would have removed those large copper(?) spouts, one of which is over the table. It would make me nervous if seated at the table.
Kjorn really hit it home. I don't like the idea of having a price on everything you publish on the site, but cost is still an important factor for many, MANY people. Would love to see some comparison contrast of the " cost is no object " version and "working on a shoestring " version. Hell the piano pictured would take me 1/2 a life time to pay for. S**t, that two seated chair could be more expensive than the piano. Bottom line, this is a building not only of great beauty, but of great ideas and imagination. Important to show or prove beauty, ideas and imagination are not the exclusive property of the well to do...................
I am an Artist and would dream of a place like that, it is spectacular, amazing vision!!!!!
An Architecht is every professional in one!!! That includes a designer skills as well as welder ,plasterer ect.....
""Breath-taking" my a*s... it's just like one of those palaces from Naboo, but nobody remembers that, because everyone likes to pretend that the SW Prequels never happened. Anyway, he most likely didn't do it alone. If one person is supposed to do this s**t, it would take a few years and a lot of money, and for how much money went into it, he could've made a small cabin somewhere. Why the hell does he need that much space? Does he intend to harbor refugees? This is more like a show-off of one person's vanity. It's the opposite of cool.
Not only the architecture in the bourgeois period is characterized by the principle "appearance over substance". More over, this kind of architecture of and for the privileged spends the tons of money taken away from the poor. I know Richardo Bofill from Montpellier in France. There in the 1980ties he designed a whole city district (called Antigone) in the Style of Albert Speer, Hitlers preferred architect and armament minister. For a look just type "Montpellier Antigone" into Google ...
Really not architecturally impressive inside. Just a bunch of Expensive s**t to decorate it.
I'm not seeing anything remotely Decon or Mackintosh at all in this design.
Load More Replies...Who cares? They wanted to show us what can be done with an old, smelly factory from WW1. Didn't they?
Load More Replies...Given that 'deconstruction' is a technique used in literary criticism, how is it relevant to the building featured in this post? Or is the 'Bored Panda' really merely a 'Pretentious Thicko'?
The architect apparently spent years deconstructing before beginning the interiors. What would you call a careful removal of unnecessary existing structure?
Load More Replies...Beautiful idea and execution but I'm with Dragos Miron on this one. The heating bills must be nightmarish.
If eucalyptus and palm grow there as it says, then he may not have much to worry about heating
Load More Replies...Given that 'deconstruction' is a technique used in literary criticism, how was it used in the reconstruction of this industrial complex? Or is the whole this some kind of fictional fabrication?
This man's home is definitely his fortress. His interior designer had a lot of fun too.
He doesn't strike me as someone who would bother with a decorator. The home is very organic and everything plays together beautifully. No matter how hard they try, decorators (or "designers", but that's not a professional designation) can't do that. It's taken him 40-odd years to get the house to where it is now.
Load More Replies...With enough MONEY, anything can be transformed, is I believe the correct statement.
It takes more than money, one must be able to imagine, visualize and create. Many millionaires would not have been able to envision the potential of such a site.
Load More Replies...This is just beautiful..and calming...a great project
Load More Replies...This is fascinating! Read the story .... get past the word salad of the first few paragraphs. I'm curious of the amount of money spent to date on the renovation. Anybody know ?
concrete doesn't age very well...not sure what it will look like in 50 years...But for now it is indeed gorgeous!
It's already over 80 years old. I don't think it's going anywhere any time soon.
Load More Replies...because there is plant a little bit everywhere it's eco-friendly??
Load More Replies...About that heat bill you who are worried about it, do you know what kind of climate it takes to grow eucalyptus and palm trees as it says? A warm one. There you go.
The house was shown by Paulina Rubio years ago on MTV Crips when she was the girlfriend of Ricardo Bofill Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
LOL I think you meant MTV CriBs. MTV CriPs would be quite a different show alltogether ;)
Load More Replies...This is absolutely beautiful. I feel like I could live happily in any one of these rooms!
This would be super cool to rent out for a week for the whole family to do a fun little trip or something.
The fella is a world renowned architect and worth millions of pounds, might have something to do with how he did this. Now if it had been joe bloggs working in the factory for 40 years to pay for it, different story. Headline should be something like 'author writes book', same as.
Can someone help me out here ? I'm ok da new at this so trying to figure out a way to post my photos !
Go to your profile, then read everything it says. It can't be easier, really. :)
Load More Replies...Ohhhhh, this is magnificent*** It takes an artist to accomplish this, just awesome!
PLEASE STOP USING THE DESCRIPTIVES "WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY", "JAW DROPPINGLY", "WILL BLOW YOUR MIND", and "WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED/SPEECHLESS". THERE'S NO QUICKER DETERRENT TO READING AN ARTICLE THAN SEEING ANY OF THOSE PHRASES IN THE PIECE. ENOUGH ALREADY.
THIS GOES TO SHOW TO ME THAT INSTEAD OF THIS WHOLESALE APPROACH TEARING THINGS DOWN THAT ARE OLD OR NOT IN USE ANYMORE, THAT IF ONE SIT BACK ANLOOKS AND RETHINKS THINGS, THIS IS THE END RESULT AND IT IS STUNNING AND RETAINS THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER OF THE IMMEDIATE AREA.
Truly Amazing. I am sure more than money was invested, looks like a lot of time as well. But the pay off is outstanding. Great vision. well done!
I am not impressed. Or just maybe it's just my taste. I so would have a water room. With a waterfall shower. A spa. A lap pool. And a green room with plants with a large bathtub. And your choice of music. Oh man I would be there all day.....
I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED THIS!!!! Paulina Rubio lived here. It was featured on MTV Cribs from WAY back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZfnO743Ig
really breath taking. but the meeting room a bit frightening for me, with those tubes. makes me feel like the cement could come out, and land on the the table.. :)
Should say "With enough **money**, any space can become something new and beautiful"
Living in this during summer vacation would be great. https://casagranda.vn/collections/gach-y
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I love that it looks like a castle and all the greenery- wow!
Paulina Rubio lived there, as seen in MTV Cribs https://youtu.be/RTZfnO743Ig
This is a killer living space. I thought the guy with the home in the missile silo had a nice one, but this takes the cake.
It gets creepy if u watch jeepers, creepers, house on haunted hill, and night of the demons
It probably kinda get creepy if u watch movies like jeepers creepers and house on haunted hill
With enough millions of dollars anything can become beautiful & interesting ! I do like the castle effect, but would have painted the whole thing white or cream to start and then work on it - my only dislike is the cement color.
Beautiful and incredible, is a sign of good taste and harmony. Congratulationes
I wonder what his electricity bills are on winter. Also does it have any insulation?
This is amazing! I'm sure the money spent renovating it was worth it because I imagine him and his family will be living their forever. It's huge! I'd love to live there
that is amazing.... how much does it cost because it looks like a kingdom for 1
Portugal will have a lot of this in a short future, any candidates?😉
Ricardo Bofill Leví is a Spanish architect, who, since 1963, continues to lead the international architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Ricardo Bofill was born into a family of builders in 1939 in Barcelona.
WOW that is one of the most awesome looking houses that I have seen in quite some time I would LOVE to live in something like that ;=]]
"Life goes on here in a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and leisure." You say. Yet, there is not even one person in any picture; no signs of life nor leisure, although the images imply luxurious tidings. I think it is a beautiful concept and thoughtfully executed design, but also a bit sterile in terms of representation. Look but don't touch. A site like this holds such great potential for social gathering and cultural rumination. Factories like this one probably employed hundreds of people, to rethink, rebuild and depict it devoid of humans seems a bit off. Also, there are significant indications that a clear separation between work and life is crucial for mental health...but you are free to argue that one with me.
Stunningly creative ,was this your friend Dan's creation and did you see it or were you never in Barcelona ?
No simple feat...creative and visionary in it"s presentation of aesthetic Beauty...
This place is an "INCREDIBLE," "ARCHITECTURAL"-----"Wonder!!!" I have NO words to express how AMAZING this dwelling place is !! BEYOND GENIUS !!
This place is truly unusual! Had a pleasure to visit and photograph it. Here is some more photos -- http://www.liabekyan.com/#/ricardobofill/
Absolutely breathtaking! I love recycling, but this gives a whole new meaning to the word! <3
Architect also have to thank to his previous colleague which has desighned that factory in such round forms)
I like it to be an office but as a home, looks scary at night, too much wasted space and high maintenance like the interior cleaning and the exterior landscaping. Hotel may be.:)
Gorgeous! But there's definitely no energy efficiency in this building. I don't know what it takes to warm up thos rooms. :)
It is t.h.e. dream of a living place, really awesome! I think, I've married the wrong man...
Absolutely gorgeous and beautiful. After his gone to heaven. I hope someone continues his work
Beyond Fabulous. So much character. So interesting. So peaceful I would love to see this in person
These places are amazing but I can't imagine the utilities.
His place is huge, Imagine how much cement he has to use to create that structure.!:P
I'm not sure about the silo above the dining table - a bit threatening at mealtimes. But otherwise an amazingly gentle space from brutal beginnings
More like with enough money, any space can become something new and beautiful.
Yep, he lives in 10,000 sqft space, all protected and secured, while the average earth dweller lives in about 300 sqft hut.
cool, thanks for sharing, but it's pretty s****y not to explicitly state you ripped everything off go his website. that's the name of the game, that's why it's linked, I get that, but it's not okay to not bother crediting the photographer (Richard Powers). Yes, you found the photos on the internet but a) you probably don't have the right to use them b) at least bother to give credit.
To be completely honest, the outside impressed me much more than the inside. This is one of the coolest places to live in I've ever seen.
If I accidentally post the same comment twice, that's redundant, right? But what if I do it a third time :D
With the vegetation, reminds me of what the Hanging Gardens of Babylon might look like!! Beautiful!
Love it....Love the openness ,love the arches. Truly stunning without being stuff and cold. Very inviting.
Love it! Old mixed with new. Sheer white against aged stone and woodwork. Solid heavy structured base with light flowing fabrics, you just can't beat that.
While much of this is beautiful, I can't help and note how sterile the inside environs are.
Personally I don't see the wow in it, some parts are nice, but others, for example the table under those cement mixers or whatever they were, the large canalization pipes visible here and there, the raw, cold, massive concrete walls, gives me no desire or attraction for a place like this, which I would just recommend as "original". It just reflects the author's personality, but I don't think many people would live in this place for more than a few days.
What a great visionary, to look at something like it was and see what it could be and then to make it so. Love the plants taking away the hardness of cement and adding so much color and texture. Amazing I bet to see in person, the scale of the buildings must be something else.
I am so impressed! Love the space, creativity, design, working and living spaces. It is a place where I could live and create without even the need to leave the residence. It has everything necessary to inspire and recover any soul. It gives straight new ideas too, like adding water in the whole picture.
Love that Gaudí chair next to the piano. This all feels very Antoni Gaudí inspired.
Love it. It reminds me of the castle in the sky from Hayao Miyazaki. It has something majestic and melancholic
Love it. It reminds me of the castle in the sky from Hayao Miyazaki. It has something majestic and melancholy.
I am wondering about washing the white curtains ... pulling them down everytime :/
Great and full of imagintion! so big that it must be a nightmare to clean, unless you have really a big staff of cleaners to do it
I'm guessing the name means The Fabric?. Very cool idea I wish I could just go live out in my own dream home.
It means The Factory. Fabric and fábrica are false cognates, they mean different things.
Load More Replies...such a subject reactivated in this way could be a gorgeous hotel...
This place is fantastic. The vision from the outset and the gradual development is clearly well thought out and no doubt changed over the years. Sorry to say it but it would make a fantastic hotel. Absolutely love it.
AwwwwMyGod. As an Interior designer, I rarely use this term. This is spectacular...it's a dream.
I love it and want it.But could never ever afford to even just have a look in real.May light and happiness be with 7ou and your house/building.
I really want to go there, visit the place, be amazed and have a lot of selfie pictures in entire home. Its really WOW me :)
It's really worth between the money he's spent with the interior he's got
AMAZING< wish I could find a place to lifetime the change with! duane tough
This is what inspired genius looks like...took my breath away...WOW!!!
I'm surprised he said the vegetation gave it a feel of ruins, I assumed he did it as a sort of repayment to the environment from the pollution it would have caused as a factory
Amazing creativity and vision!!! But ummm...two small but insignificant questions: 1. How much did it cost buy and renovate? 2. How much costs to maintain it??
Very beautiful, creative and stunning! I just don't want to imagine what a pain it has to be, to keep this home clean. xD
i think he who afford this home also affords a maintenance staff
Load More Replies...Hey, those images are not pictures but CGI renders! Does anyone know who is the artist who did them? They are so gorgeous!
Those are pictures. You can see walkthroughs of the house on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQlWkYijLM
Load More Replies...Hey, those are CGI renders not actual pictures of this guy's house. Does anyone knows which artist did them? They are so gorgeous!
Gorgeous! Mysterious and enchanting. My only practical concern is how much he pays to heat and cool those huge interiors.
I dunno, original, but somehow... too much cement around. But I bet it`s grounds are inhabitated with some really cool creatures! Great work!
Superb work. I would have removed those large copper(?) spouts, one of which is over the table. It would make me nervous if seated at the table.
Kjorn really hit it home. I don't like the idea of having a price on everything you publish on the site, but cost is still an important factor for many, MANY people. Would love to see some comparison contrast of the " cost is no object " version and "working on a shoestring " version. Hell the piano pictured would take me 1/2 a life time to pay for. S**t, that two seated chair could be more expensive than the piano. Bottom line, this is a building not only of great beauty, but of great ideas and imagination. Important to show or prove beauty, ideas and imagination are not the exclusive property of the well to do...................
I am an Artist and would dream of a place like that, it is spectacular, amazing vision!!!!!
An Architecht is every professional in one!!! That includes a designer skills as well as welder ,plasterer ect.....
""Breath-taking" my a*s... it's just like one of those palaces from Naboo, but nobody remembers that, because everyone likes to pretend that the SW Prequels never happened. Anyway, he most likely didn't do it alone. If one person is supposed to do this s**t, it would take a few years and a lot of money, and for how much money went into it, he could've made a small cabin somewhere. Why the hell does he need that much space? Does he intend to harbor refugees? This is more like a show-off of one person's vanity. It's the opposite of cool.
Not only the architecture in the bourgeois period is characterized by the principle "appearance over substance". More over, this kind of architecture of and for the privileged spends the tons of money taken away from the poor. I know Richardo Bofill from Montpellier in France. There in the 1980ties he designed a whole city district (called Antigone) in the Style of Albert Speer, Hitlers preferred architect and armament minister. For a look just type "Montpellier Antigone" into Google ...
Really not architecturally impressive inside. Just a bunch of Expensive s**t to decorate it.
I'm not seeing anything remotely Decon or Mackintosh at all in this design.
Load More Replies...Who cares? They wanted to show us what can be done with an old, smelly factory from WW1. Didn't they?
Load More Replies...Given that 'deconstruction' is a technique used in literary criticism, how is it relevant to the building featured in this post? Or is the 'Bored Panda' really merely a 'Pretentious Thicko'?
The architect apparently spent years deconstructing before beginning the interiors. What would you call a careful removal of unnecessary existing structure?
Load More Replies...Beautiful idea and execution but I'm with Dragos Miron on this one. The heating bills must be nightmarish.
If eucalyptus and palm grow there as it says, then he may not have much to worry about heating
Load More Replies...Given that 'deconstruction' is a technique used in literary criticism, how was it used in the reconstruction of this industrial complex? Or is the whole this some kind of fictional fabrication?
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