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Christian Schallert's 250 sq feet apartment designed by Barbara Appolloni
This video is making the blog rounds as the "Christian House," named for owner Christian Schallert, but the name that should be noted here is Barbara Appolloni. She's the architect who turned a space not much bigger than an American jail cell—roughly 250 square feet—into a livable apartment in Barcelona:
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This is always the case. I've seen countless articles about buildings that mention the owners and developers, but always seem to leave out the design team. I guess thats why we need our trade magazine and design websites.
Well... theres another house like this in Porto, Portugal, but it is much more hightech :)
An unfortunate but simple rule : If you want to get recognized for something be the person that pays for it.
The reason we don't show Barbara in that particular video is her English. See this video (mainly the same), but in Spanish: "Un mini-apartamento que se transforma en infinitos espacios" http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/un-mini-apartamento-que-se-transforma-en-infinitos-espacios/
Dear friends, you are quite uninformed-opinionated. At least, you could ask us and we'd have pointed out that other video featuring Barbara Appolloni.
And just to be clear: this was a two people work.