LOOM, a Spanish coworking brand owned by the countries largest real estate company, MERLIN, will have 14 locations open by the end of 2024, with more on the way.

Coworking Europe shared (a blurry photo of) some stats on the largest operators in Spain.

To summarize, and save you some early-morning squinting, the table is sorted by total space occupied (sqm) but also lists the number of locations per operator. The 14 operators listed run 201 spaces covering over 505k sqm (5.4M sqft) of space.

IWG led the pack in both no. of spaces and sqm (74, and 155k respectively). LOOM and Cloudworks both have 15 locations, followed by Impact Hub with 14 and Aticco with 13. By space, WeWork came in second with 58.5k sqm.

Radio Intereconomia reports (in Spanish) that the prestigious architectural magazine Frame nominates LOOM Castellana 85, the latest space opened by LOOM in Azca, as a leading project in workspace architecture in 2023.

This follows LOOM and the SCOB studio recently being awarded the Popular Choice A+ Award 2023 awarded by Architizer A+ Awards, for their LOOM Plaza Catalunya project, in the category of best international coworking.

Marc Navarro shares thoughts & insights on the Cobot blog from their conversation with María Montis, the COO of LOOM – the flex space brand acquired back in 2019 by Merlin Properties. They explore automation, aggregation and property management.