Spaces

One colour applied to the structural beam and the column that meets it. Everything else — white walls, terrazzo, plywood, grey — holds back. What looks like decoration turns out to be the spatial logic of the whole plan.

A load-bearing wall comes down, a tiled island becomes an optical instrument, and colour does the organisational work that partitions might have done.

In a Riga courtyard formed by a century of layered construction, Sampling adds only what is necessary — and marks it in red.

Salvaged steel, bold colour, and a folding threshold — Marta Badiola and Jorge Pizarro rehabilitate 174 m² of industrial volume in Madrid to ask what a dwelling can be when it refuses to forget what it was.