Ricardo Bofill's Cement Factory Home LoftLife

Ricardo Bofill's Cement Factory Home
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We received this impressive peek inside architect Ricardo Bofill's Barcelona home and office via LoftLife — it's an abandoned cement factory that Bofill found in 1973 and has adapted to highlight the industrial past and his own unique design aesthetic.

The expansive home is ruin-like — this is only accented by the impressive gardens and plantings that surround the factories former buildings and silos. Just look at this giant raw space!

From LoftLife: Today, the factory has been successfully transformed into his personal home, as well as a multitude of offices, modeling and archival laboratories, a projection room, and a huge space known as ‘The Cathedral’, which serves as a venue for subsequent exhibitions, lectures, and concerts.

You can see more pictures at Ricardo Bofill's site and from LoftLife | Loft Tour: The Cement Factory.

Images: Verve

Comments (18)

I want this so bad....ooooo

posted by apicciri on October 5th 2009 at 8:11pm
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WOW.

posted by sarahlr on October 5th 2009 at 8:31pm
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WOW x 2.

posted by chicity1126 on October 5th 2009 at 8:44pm
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The very definition of "house porn." AMAZING.

posted by sally305 on October 5th 2009 at 8:45pm
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mtv cribs visited a place very much like this some years ago, and it belonged to a spanish-speaking singer (unfortunately, that's all i can remember). i was blown away. great to be reminded of it!

posted by youreacigarette on October 5th 2009 at 11:00pm
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youreacigarette, I recognised it as being on MTV Cribs too, but I can't remember the singer's name either. I think she is the step-daughter of the architect (I'm sure it is the same place). One of the things I remember about it that isn't shown here is that they had a (non-industrial) walk-in fridge.

posted by idontdobeige on October 6th 2009 at 5:32am
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BEAUTIFUL space.
but why have the furniture spaced so far apart from each other?

posted by Brad of colorTHEORY on October 6th 2009 at 6:10am
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"BEAUTIFUL space.
but why have the furniture spaced so far apart from each other?"

Because he can, Brad, because he can! LOL.

posted by DeborahMcP on October 6th 2009 at 7:06am
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Another WOW here...kinda speechless. Amazing.

posted by ModFruGal on October 6th 2009 at 8:48am
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OMG! Amazing, HUGH, beautiful!!!

posted by jeffnyc on October 6th 2009 at 9:08am
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Holy Jeebus thats amazing.

posted by redbeard on October 6th 2009 at 11:25am
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The singer on MTV Cribs was Paulina Rubio.

posted by Ruffle on October 6th 2009 at 12:37pm
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sexy, sexy, sexy!

posted by davidsl on October 6th 2009 at 12:43pm
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be still my heart

posted by panoptic on October 6th 2009 at 1:57pm
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This is SWEEEET! I'm craving falling back into one of those pillow chairs right now...

posted by lexinchicago on October 6th 2009 at 1:57pm
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Cool in theory, but I couldn't imagine living here. Way, way, way too big for any normal-sized family. I'd feel bad if I weren't housing a whole camp full of gypsies along with me.

posted by unabridged on October 6th 2009 at 5:09pm
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paulina rubio on mtv cribs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8N9w1e0ug

posted by g. on October 11th 2009 at 12:12pm
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it is so different from his other project, generally very linear and luxurious, like this or this….

posted by Alberto_basso on November 27th 2009 at 8:19am
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