Boat-inspired home is apartment of transforming cubes

The Born is now one of Barcelona’s most desirable neighborhoods, but several centuries ago this portion of the Gothic quarter was filled with craftspeople and fishermen. Several years ago, a Spanish family of architects and interior designers bought a flat here in a 17th century building here and turned it into a hyper-modern transforming apartment. The whole apartment is a series of cubes, or boxes. The most spectacular is the floating bathroom cube that is an all-glass all-in-one shower plus toilet (the