Space Ibiza built a 27-year legend on a rented building

Pepe Roselló ran Space at Playa d'en Bossa from 1989, renting the building from the Matutes family, and over 27 years it became Ibiza's most celebrated club — famous for its open-air terrace, its 22-hour dance marathons and Carl Cox's long-running residency. DJs called it the most significant club on the planet; the brand was the island's.

But the club never owned its home. In 2016 the lease was not renewed — the Matutes family, whose neighbouring Ushuaïa empire was remaking the strip, took the venue back. On 2 October 2016 Space held its final party: after a 12-hour closing set, Cox played Angie Stone's 'Wish I Didn't Miss You' as the last record. 'There's been no other club on this planet that has basically been as significant as this one,' he said.

The landlord's rebuild took months, not years: on 28 May 2017 the same building reopened as Hï Ibiza, operated by the Matutes group's Ushuaïa Entertainment. Roselló kept the memories and lost everything structural — in later court battles he even lost the Spanish rights to the Space trademark.