Abitare Magazine

Issue: #637

Once it was the barn of a farmhouse near Barcelona. Today the Catalan H3o Architects have turned it into a striking house dominated by sherbet colours. Particular features: the zigzag lines that define the spaces. Inspired by a bolt of lightning

Under a roof that pays homage to the leaf of the ginkgo, a tree venerated in China, shelves and benches create a topography in continuity with the landscape. This is how the Snøhetta firm has conceived the Beijing City Library. Dedicated to social interaction and to love of the book as a physical object