TEd’A arquitectes INTERVIEW
“We are where we are.” The Catalan artist and poet Perejaume wrote this simple sentence in his book Local Words. In the words of the architect Jaume Mayol Amengual, everything depends similarly on the place where you are because you respond to the needs that you have there.
FOCUS ON GOING LOCAL
Until recently, globalization was embraced with gusto. It was not only due to the economic benefits of expansion and the free traffic of capital, services and individuals. The idea of eliminating frontiers, of enjoying a conflict-free world where everyone could unhesitatingly associate with one another, was also an alluring perspective.
FORBO FLOORING SYSTEMS HIGHLIGHT
The task of designing Bureau, in the Design District of Greenwich in south-east London, challenged the architect Roz Barr with a succession of uncertainties. The least of these problems could be put down to the constantly changing groups of freelancers, start-ups and young entrepreneurs in the creative industries for whom the Bureau workspaces had to be created.