Sitting on Carrer del Consell de Cent in Barcelona's Dreta de l'Eixample, within Ildefons Cerdà's famous grid of chamfered blocks, the building that houses Ohla Eixample presented its architects at Lagranja Design with a particular challenge: how to give a contemporary structure its own identity inside a neighbourhood where almost every facade carries the weight of Modernista history. Their answer was a cream limestone grid of deep-set vertical fins and floor-to-ceiling glazing — rational, quietly confident, stepping back from the street through a warm-toned timber entrance surround that gives the ground floor an almost residential intimacy. The Xerta restaurant, visible through that entrance, anchors the building's street presence with a programme devoted to the cuisine of the Ebro Delta. Inside, the 94 rooms work through a restrained palette of polished concrete floors, staggered ceramic tile headboard walls in graduated greys, and bent-rattan occasional chairs that pull the warmth back into spaces that might otherwise feel clinical. Ceilings in several rooms carry a rough textured finish that acts as a deliberate counterpoint to the precision below. The Xerta dining room, arranged around a Saarinen-style tulip table at its centre, opens to a planted inner courtyard through full-height glass — herringbone oak parquet underfoot, slat-screen millwork dividing the space with a rhythm borrowed from Japanese interiors. Up on the rooftop, a cantilevered lap pool pushes out over the Eixample roofscape, the geometry of Cerdà's octagonal blocks spreading in every direction below.

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