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July 7, 2020
The retail sector is a pioneer in innovation, technological transformation and excellence in the shopping experience. The COVID-19 has simply acted as an accelerator of existing trends in space configuration and design. As a society we were prepared for change, simply...
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“We should remember and recover the most common and effective gestures to know how to adapt our corporate spaces” In three months we have written more about the challenges of the new office than in the past two years. The discourse has focused on physical...
See moreJune 10, 2020
PROJECT CONTRACT- INTERVIEW WITH THE GRUP IDEA TEAM Lluís Saiz, Artur Ortiz, Alejandro Mora, Rodolfo Pérez-Martos, Miquel Àngel Julià and Juan Guaita, partners of Grup Idea and Abessis Grup Idea is an international company based in Barcelona specialized in imagining,...
See moreApril 29, 2020
Since the birth of optical sotres, the priorities of these health centers have been to take care of the patient’s health through the quality of the product and the professionalism of the optometrist. Today, optical stores, such as retail spaces, have entered a...
See moreApril 9, 2020
Covid-19 could permanently change the work culture in companies. With the rise of the home office, the workforce will relish the comfort and flexibility of remote work and many companies will have to rethink their concept of physical office. As a result of the...
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Many of our customers, suppliers and friends have received GrupIdea’s corporate calendar for 12 years (from 2008 to 2019). At first we tried to show an image of our projects in each of the months. Little by little we believed that it was more interesting to...
See moreApril 8, 2020
Woody Allen told us, “We are all interested in the future, because that’s where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” But … Can we predict the future of retail? And I refer to the ‘future’ that revolves around three different...
See moreApril 6, 2020
Transversality is one of the most overused words in recent times. It is one of the most used in politics. Transversality or transversalism is an ideological trend that defends the refusal to identify their ideas with the classical political spectrum, based on the...
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We measure the world through sensory experience, why not do the same with the spaces we design? Design is no longer about spaces looking beautiful and certainly comfortable, but rather about pursuing authenticity in the architectural experience. Of the five senses,...
See moreMarch 30, 2020
GrupIdea attended Euroshop 2020 last February, the world’s most important fair in the retail sector. The event is held every three years in Dusseldorf, Germany, and this year it has brought together a total of 2,300 exhibitors and 94,000 visitors. Euroshop is a...
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On 27 February, Roca Barcelona Gallery hosted the presentation of the book “Arquitectura & Facility Management”. The book is a collection of articles by 37 professionals with a reflective and experiential approach. It is the first time that this...
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Last February, Daikin, a major manufacturer of air conditioning equipment, invited Grup Idea’s engineering department to participate in the Variable Refrigerant Volume Systems (VRV) conference in Copenhagen. The technological advancement presented at the forum...
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