Laced with the scent of wild herbs, a warm wind brushes the scorched sienna earth. Leaves rustle on the gnarled branches of ancient olive trees. In a semi-circular pool fringed with travertine slabs that gleam in the light, cool water gently ripples outwards. The stark sensoriality of this setting – the last olive grove bestowed with the privilege of building permission on the outskirts of Quesa, a mountainous village in Spain’s Valencia province – demands an equally singular architecture. With their single-family residence ‘La Casa de los Olivos’ (the House in the Olive Grove), completed in 2021, Balzar Arquitectos have created a sculptural shelter that contrasts and harmonizes with the ancient land it occupies.

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Just meters aways from Valencia’s historic Ciutat Vella neighborhood, ‘Avenida del Oeste Apartment’ is an elegant apartment designed by local firm Balzar Arquitectos. Filled with warm lighting and natural materials such as marble and wood, it merges past and present in perfect harmony.

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On one of the main avenues in the city of Valencia, Spanish firm Balzar Arquitectos has completed the renovation of ‘GVFC Apartment’: A minimal three-bedroom residence with a unique layout that was determined by the convoluted, polygonal shape of the apartment block it sits within.

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‘Residential Mirasal’ is a contemporary residential complex designed by Spanish firm Balzar Arquitectos, located in Torrevieja in southern Spain.

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