Alhondiga

You might say whaaat? Alhondiga is the name of a beatifull building in Bilbao where I was this weekend.
It was build in 1909 by Ricardo Bastida as a stock place for wine. Now this year they finished renovating this building and it was designed by Philippe Starck ( wich is one of my favorite designers)
It´s has many quircky, playfull and different designs as we are used to see from mr. Starck.

                                                                       before

After

inside you can see the floor of the swimmigpool

mr. Starck

Alhondiga has:

A Cinema, Gym, Swimmingpool with sundeck, a chic restaurant, a bar/lounge terrace, a cafetaria, lunchplace, expo´s, a design shop, you can rent spaces for seminars etc.

It´s a great place to visit and hang out.