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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Back Home in Girona, Spain by Egue and SetaMay 10th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Egue and Seta Her “little apartment” in Barcelona may not have been short of meters, charm, views or location, but look where she always thought that she was limping on something. He told her that “you cannot have everything” and she repeated that it was not so much that she wanted to have everything but a simple need to give a name to what she was missing.  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO
 Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO The matter haunted him when he could: Picking up the kids from the umpteenth extra-school activity of the day (at past seven) or when he got involved, by sport, in “idealistic” to kill time. On any given Sunday, when they returned from Girona to visit the in-laws, the answer came as a surprise to him before leaving the station: that apartment does not need an en-suite room, or change the parquet, or integrate the kitchen into the dining room. … Your house is missing a couple of grandparents. Her husband told her that she did not know any decorator who could project that to him and they laughed for a while. They forgot the topic until, months later, fate put the matter back on the table (or on the mobile screen).  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO “Oysters! But how beautiful your mother is in this photo, right? … Look at her all set with selfies and such … What fun! ” ” Yeah … But that’s another matter.” Come on, baby … Look closely … That’s not what I want to show you. What? Geraniums? Jolín, it’s true! They are the ones who brought him the weekend of the one we went to … What, there on the balcony, are so cute? “Yes, life, but focus, go.” Take a closer look … “” How about you tell me exactly what I have to look at?  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO “Well, the poster behind it.” AT the neighbor’s rail … Look. It says “for sale”. Yeah ..” ” Yeah?” Only that? It is done? Didn’t you say that this apartment lacked grandparents? That the babysitter and the house and the umpteenth extra-school activity … “” But who knows … Okay, we would have your parents next door, but that apartment may lack everything else … Man, I suppose that being the same farm and the same floor, it should not be very different from my… It is like 3 times this… My 3 brothers grew up there and… Oh, darling, but what. ..I’m not getting it … Are we going to give up the job here and look for something else in Girona?  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO “Or not … We could go and return every day …” ” A hundred and a few miles, my love! Two hundred and so a day … I don’t say more …” “On AVE it’s half an hour … I am here in Barcelona, with the car and the subway and the traffic jams of the Diagonal, I do more … Okay, but that will be a pasture…  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO Don’t believe it… There are subscriptions that… The price of the house there, Compared to the rents here … I mean that well, that in the end compensates … I repeat: the kangaroo, the house … All right, something will have to be done, right? .. Isn’t that a reform? Just the same, yes or no… But for that I do think I know “a couple” who could give us a cable.  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO That flat was a postcard, perhaps too faithful, of fifties. A festival of terraces and tiles scattered among too many rather small rooms, crowded with classic Spanish furniture and tons of wood. Not everything was so “black and white” in any case. The house, although excessively compartmentalized, nevertheless had a very good dimension as a whole and almost all the rooms looked out over beautiful views and were bathed in plenty of natural light. The task then consisted of completely stripping floors and ceilings and rethinking, in accordance with current lifestyles, the location of almost all the walls.  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © VICUGO FOTO  Image Courtesy © Egue and Seta  Image Courtesy © Egue and Seta
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