Philippe Starck creates "strange and surrealist" olive oil mill and museum

French architect Philippe Starck has created a red cube to house the LA Almaraza olive oil mill, museum and restaurant in Andalusia, decorated with symbols referencing the area's heritage.

Surrounded by groves on a 25-hectare estate near Rona, the building was designed for oil producer LA Organic as part of a wider project to boost oleotourism – tourism based on olive oil production – in the region.

Starck finished the otherwise plain building in large symbols celebrating the "magic and poetry" of the area...