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Urban Living
Spaces Built Around Daily Rituals
Urban Living

The spaces we inhabit shape us just as much as we shape them. The layout dictates the pace of a morning, an afternoon, an evening. A well-considered environment simply makes it easier to keep healthy habits. When all the amenities and services you need are at hand, routine stops feeling like effort and finds its own rhythm.
Kostava Avenue, 49 was designed with this understanding. As a setting where daily life can take a quieter, more intentional form. It is a place where what you do every day is supported by the architecture itself.
Here, every detail is carefully chosen, including materials, spatial layout, ceiling heights, how natural light moves through each space and the harmonious connection between indoor and outdoor living areas. The apartments are shaped with the same level of precision. Through a balance of light and scale, high ceilings and warm, muted tones, they create a sense of continuity that feels personal and natural. Arched forms, natural stone, and restrained colour palettes produce a settling, leisurely atmosphere.
A Day on Your Terms
The small acts define how a day feels. Morning workout before the city wakes up, an hour in the spa with nowhere else to be, a long lunch with no agenda - these small rituals are how you keep present, calm, and connected to yourself.
A private fitness area provides the space to maintain balance and well-being without the distractions of a commercial gym. The wellness spaces offer a place to slow down, relax, and restore both body and mind. Thermal suites, hydrotherapy pools, and meditative relaxation lounges form a private retreat where residents can follow a holistic approach to health. What you eat, and how you eat, is as much a part of daily care as exercising or resting. Fine dining here is not reserved for special occasions. The on-site restaurant offers an impressive variety of traditional Georgian cuisine, with a menu that refreshes each season to keep the dining experience diverse.
Rituals do not always have to be personal. Some of the most meaningful ones are shared. The intimacy of a shared meal, a conversation with a neighbour you did not expect to have, an evening where someone else's story changes the way you see your own, these moments carry the same weight as any personal practice.
Balance is not found in isolation. It requires connection with people who challenge and inspire. The Residents' Club is designed around this idea. It offers a private environment where residents connect, focus, or simply pause. A cocktail after work, a whiskey shared with a neighbour over unhurried conversation, a film on a private screen with no need to leave the building, a game room and a cigar room for conversations. The kind of lifestyle that usually requires leaving home is built right into the building.
A Structure With Memory
Kostava Avenue, 49, carries an atmosphere shaped by its own history. The building has moved through different eras, and traces of its past lives are still present in the architecture and in certain interior details. When you walk through it, you become part of its continuity. That history gives the building something that brand new construction can not offer - a sense of depth, of grounding, of context, and within these walls, a way of living that is not easily found elsewhere.
Final Thoughts
The spaces we interact with daily have a direct impact on how life unfolds. When architecture is designed with intention, it encourages a certain way of living. Kostava Avenue, 49 offers the interior, the amenities, and the services to support a lifestyle shaped by balance. It makes the better version easier to reach. This is an environment where the pace of the city stays outside, and you can follow a rhythm that is entirely yours.
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Located outside Barcelona, an abandoned cement factory was transformed by preserving its industrial past. Original silos and concrete shells were repurposed into studios and offices, layered with lush gardens that soften the raw structure. This ongoing project treats architecture as a continuous evolution, where the factory’s past and modern life coexist in a living, breathing environment.