LA Almazara橄榄榨油厂丨西班牙马拉加丨菲利普·斯塔克（Phillippe Starck）

A look inside Phillippe Starck's new LA Almazara olive oil mill design

Phillippe Starck

has shared news of a newly completed architectural project in

Spain

called LA Almazara. The resorted olive oil manufacturing plant now allows for an inspiring epicurean museum-like experience for tourists in search of a day trip or hands-on romantic getaway.

References to

Picasso

beset the architecture, which stands out against the Andalusian landscape near the artist’s birth city of Málaga thanks to the decorative bull’s eye smokestack and Corten steel horns inscribed on and punctured through the facade at either orientation.

This otherwise surrealism-inspired blend of food production, food culture, design, art, and gastronomy contains a working mill press and wastes no gestures or materials (save for the monumental half olive embedded into its weather steel walls) with the deliberate exclusion of cladding or exterior finishes.

Starck himself offers this as "an accumulation of mysteries where the crystallized respect of olive oil is mixed with emotion." A cantilevered outdoor viewing area finally unfolds from the dim interior spaces, held to the building by steel chains.

Starck added: "LA Almazara is neither architecture nor a place of culture. It is an object that fell from space and simply took on the dimension and name of respect. Beyond the object itself, LA Almazara has a function, that of protecting one of the elements of our civilization that provides services to our animal species. These elements are sacred. LA Almazara is a tribute to this respect for olive oil, born from all the civilizations that have gone before us."

The project was

one of four shortlisted

in the 'Best Commercial & Cultural Project in Architecture' category for the

2025 Créateurs Design Awards

, which will be announced later this month from Paris.