Archilovers Best of 2024: Comprehensive Renovation in Almagro

The Comprehensive Renovation in Almagro, a penthouse near the Retiro, is part of the Best of 2024 selection of the Archilovers platform.

At the end of 2024, Archilovers, the architecture platform of the Archiproducts group, gathered in its Best of 2024 collection around a thousand projects chosen from the twenty-five thousand published during the year. ÁBATON’s Comprehensive Renovation in Almagro is part of that selection.

It is a penthouse with a terrace in central Madrid, a few steps from the Retiro, of some 190 square metres of usable floor area. The project organises the home from an open hall that separates the social areas from the private ones, and brings the terrace into the living room with minimal-profile glazing, so that the outdoors is lived as one more room.

The bespoke oak kitchen hides the way through to the private area behind its fronts. Around it, the mouldings, the marble fireplace, the joinery and the exposed brick were recovered: the elements that gave the flat its character are still there, now in a more open and brighter home.

As in other renovations by the studio, the intervention seeks a balance between the memory of the building and today’s way of living. The Archilovers selection is an editorial distinction of the platform and not an award with a jury, but it places the work among those the platform chose to show from a year of international architecture.

Source: the project’s page on Archilovers, with the Best of 2024 badge.