A Horned Cube for Oleotourism

28. outubro 2024

The recently opened LA Almazara combines an oil mill, a museum, and a restaurant inside an avant-garde “habitable work of art” designed by Philippe Starck. (Photo courtesy of Starck)

Views of the surrounding olive trees can be had from the terrace hung off the side of the building. (Photo courtesy of Starck)

Inside the cube are numerous “fertile surprises and clear homages,” in Starck's words, including a metal pipe penetrating the exterior wall and a huge figure without a head or identity. (Photo courtesy of Starck)