Hostench Architects
is an English speaking architectural and urbanism design team based in Barcelona.
We pursue new and innovative designs all over the world, with the aim to fulfilling our clients' utmost desires.
We design and construct new residential dwellings and apartments.
We adapt existing buildings and develop refurbishments.
We provide top level advice on Real Estate purchases.
We are experts in providing legal and spatial advice for our international clients.
We restore ancient heritage sites to give them a new lease of life and possibilities for use.
Apartment buildings
This apartments block is an adaptation of an old barn, transformed into three separate apartments for three brothers. The…Read more
Rehabilitation of an old 7-story building with a school, a car repair shop and residential dwellings into a modern…Read more
This project explores the possibilities of depth in façades of residential buildings. The building looks for variation and…Read more
Project for a building of 22 dwellings and 3 shops in the outskirts of Barcelona, in a newly…Read more
Rehabilitation of an apartment building with coating detachment in the façades. A building from the 1960's needed rehabilitation…Read more
(Under construction) Design and construction of a 4-story block in Barcelona, in the residential neighborhood of Guinardó. The…Read more
New dwellings & refurbishments
This project was made to develop a case study house aiming to achieve different solutions. The initial project…Read more
This house is an ampliation with a metallic structure of an older one, in order to jump over…Read more
(Under Construction) An old barn in the countryside with great roof trusses made of concrete is being transformed…Read more
In the town of Roses in the heart of the Costa Brava, a vacational appartment in front of…Read more
In Hostench Architects we are specialised in changes of use. We have achieved many different changes of use…Read more
(Under Construction) An old country house, with structural problems will be reinforced and updated to create a modern,…Read more
This rehabilitation of a single dwelling has improved the façade, allowing an access on one side to obtain…Read more
(Under construction) Design and construction of a single-family detached home in Badalona at the exclusive development of Mas…Read more
"A house is more a home by being a work of art." Based on this statement by Frank…Read more
Research
Big Time BCN is an interactive map of Barcelona that highlights the age of urban plots contrasted with…Read more
Buckminster Fuller created in 1954 a precise projection of Earth, with the North Pole as the central reference.…Read more
The Historic Charter of Barcelona is a research project published by means of an online tool, which integrates…Read more
The web portal History at Work is a semiannual addressing professionals and students interested in modern architecture’s masterworks.…Read more
The city we live in is the result of two different urban processes linked in time and space.…Read more- Big Time BCN is an interactive map of Barcelona that highlights the age of urban plots contrasted with…Read more
- Buckminster Fuller created in 1954 a precise projection of Earth, with the North Pole as the central reference.…Read more
- The Historic Charter of Barcelona is a research project published by means of an online tool, which integrates…Read more
- The web portal History at Work is a semiannual addressing professionals and students interested in modern architecture’s masterworks.…Read more
- The city we live in is the result of two different urban processes linked in time and space.…Read more
The set of ruins of an antiaircraft battery from the Civil War and huts from the 60's, on…Read more
Antoni Gaudí designed and constructed these two pavilions for his friend and patron, Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi, between…Read more
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