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COBAR Design & Architecture

Av. Tibidabo 50         Westcroft Sq. 51

info@cobar.es           info@cobar.es
Barcelona                 London

COBAR is an architecture and design studio born from decades of global experience working alongside some of the most influential architects of our time, after the right opportunities came along to bring this unique breadth of experience into our own work. 

Our intent is to transform complexity into simplicity, instill a deep sense of meaning, and craft spaces of enduring quality.

Team

German De la Torre

Managing Director and founder

Mauricio Ortega Gómez

Senior Architect & Landscape Specialist

Germán Ortega

Senior Architect & Urbanism Specialist

What Cobar Means

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In a remote, silent landscape, a small, unassuming building gathers art, music, poetry, nature, desire, function, and technique in perfect harmony. Within its walls, a continuous musical composition resonates, shafts of light mark the passing hours, and the rawness of the land embraces its form.

Discovering the existence of the Cobar Sound Chapel, a small, humble, and inexpensive project in the middle of the australian outback, after working in so many incredibly large and complex projects for years, was revealing. Created by Glenn Murcutt, one of the great architects of our times, it is a work of wonder and clarity. It does not seek to shout its presence to the world through image or spectacle, nor to make a statement of the self, but only to offer homage, respect, and transcendence.

Together with composer Georges Lentz, the Noise String Quartet, and other multifaceted collaborators, they gave form to a perennial creation that materializes everything I have come to believe in.

I have been fortunate and proud to have worked on extraordinary projects across the globe, colossal investments with enormous complexities, and to learn from some of the most extraordinary architects of our time, such as Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Thomas Heatherwick, and Bjarke Ingels, yet nothing conveyed everything about architecture like this little chapel.

It is a reminder of what architecture should always be: simplicity, presence, and meaning. Works that are not loud but lasting. Spaces that embody art, science, memory and the soul of their occupants. Existing in harmony with the world that sustains them.

Cobar is in the country of Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people.
In their language, it means "red earth" or "burnt earth"