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1 BARCELONA Projects 37 Created 08-Jan-10 By Natalia Blanco, Valencia, Gas Natural Headquarters Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT office Forum Building Barcelona Pavilion International Convention Center (CCIB) Jaume Fuster Library 5 CCCB Esplanade and Photovoltaic power plant 9 Fish Can Ricart Sport Complex 15 Fundació Joan Miró 16 Diagonal Mar Park 17 Biomedical Research Park 18 Communications Tower 19 Santiago Calatrava landmark 10 Torre Agbar 20 Jean Nouvel landmark, office 11 Botanical Garden 21 Carlos Ferrater garden, park Martínez Lapeña - Torres Arquitectos canopy, energy centre, landmark, square 14 Manel Brullet laboratorium Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT housing, market Colegio Mayor Sant Jordi Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT park Richard Meier museum Santa Catarina Market Josep Lluís Sert museum Albert Viaplana auditorium, exposition space MACBA 13 vora arquitectura fitness club, leisure, renovation, sport, swimming pool Josep Llinás Carmona library Hospital Militar Police Station Mateo Arquitectura auditorium, education, pavilion, sport, student housing Mateo Arquitectura congress centre, exposition space, meeting room 4 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pavilion Mestura arquitectes police station Herzog and De Meuron auditorium, culture, exposition space, square 3 12 Gehry Partners landmark, sculpture Subcentral Eléctrica 22@ 22 Victor Rahola Aguadé energy centre 1

2 Indra Offices b720 arquitectos office Palau de la Musica Extension Equipamientos Londres-Villarroel Illa de la Llum Social Housing at Sant Agustí Vell Casa Camper Municipal Sailing School Ciutat de la Justicia Court of Sant Boi 33 Mestre Nicolau Diagonal David Chipperfield s office 27 Príncep de Girona Gardens 36 Jordi Farrando park, promenade 28 Banco Sabadell Atlantico Entrance and Awning 37 Mateo Arquitectura office 29 ME Barcelona Hotel 38 Dominique Perrault hotel 30 Josep Fontsere pavilion 26 MBM arquitectes sport Umbracle 32 b720 arquitectos office Jordi Tió hotel 25 Josep Llinás Carmona social housing Can Framis Museum BAAS Jordi Badia court building, office Lluis Collet & Ignacio Aparicio housing 24 Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos housing, primary school BAAS Jordi Badia gallery, museum Oscar Tusquets Blanca music theatre 23 Casa de la Marina 39 Josep Antoni Coderch housing, social housing 31 David Chipperfield s court building, office 2

3 photo: Martino Zegwaard photo: Gas Natural Gas Natural Headquarters Carrer dels Pinzón Barcelona The most striking feature of the 20-storey glass tower is the variety and originality of its volume, which lends a completely different appearance when observing it from the city, the sea or from the coastal ring-road It has spectacular horizontal jut, which as a result of both its location and its architectural singularity have made it a landmark on Barcelona's skyline With the arrival of the company in Barceloneta, this district now has a new public square called Plaza del Gas at the gas company request, located on the site where the first gasworks in the history of were located 160 years ago The façade is clad in 18,000 m2 solar clear control glass, supplemented by a low-emissive top layer, all provided by Glaverbel This makes a highly energy efficient façade combining excellent insulation (U value: 14 W/(m²K) with the protection needed to cope with solar light and heat (solar factor: 21%) Enric Miralles died shortly after winning the tough design competition photo: Martino Zegwaard Project is not public! m² Supplier Structural engineer Services engineer Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT Glaverbel Group MC2 Estudio de Ingenieria PGI Grup Grupo Gas Natural Naomi There is no acces inside the buiding, but the public square is open for everyone to visit Metro: L4 Barceloneta Bus: 17, 36, 40, 45, 57,

4 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Forum Building Avinguda Diagonal Barcelona The Forum Building is a triangular measuring 180 meters on each side and 25 meters in height, located within the triangle formed by the surrounding streets It is considered by some to be an icon of the "New Barcelona " However, local opinion on its aesthetic and functional merits is deeply divided It was the symbol of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures and the serious flaws that arose during its construction were widely covered in both the Spanish national and foreign press It has lain empty since the Forum and is beginning to show marked deterioration The building is structured around an auditorium with a capacity to hold 3,200 people The seating is below the Forum Plaza level The upper part is suspended from the triangular superstructure measuring 180 meters per side that covers the plaza, and rests on 17 pillars From it, the exhibit hall and the roof of the auditorium are suspended The exhibition hall covers nearly 5,000 m Herzog and De Meuron Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004 Naomi photo: Francisco Nogueira Metro: L4 - Stop "Maresme/Fórum" Bus: Lines NitBus: N6 Tramway: Line 1, Stop Trambesós: Fórum 4

5 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Barcelona Pavilion Avinguda del Marquès de Comillas Barcelona A work emblematic of the Modern Movement, it has been exhaustively studied and interpreted as well as having inspired the oeuvre of several generations of architects It was designed as the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition Built from glass, travertine and different kinds of marble, the Pavilion was conceived to accommodate the official reception presided over by King Alphonso XIII of along with the German authorities After the closure of the Exhibition, the Pavilion was disassembled in 1930 As time went by, it became a key point of reference not only in Mies van der Rohe's own career but also in twentieth-century architecture as a whole Given the significance and reputation of the Pavilion, in 1980 thoughts turned towards its possible reconstruction Work began in 1983 and the new building was opened on its original site in 1986 photo: Kevin Louage 1929 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Germany Naomi every day (including holidays) Metro: L1 and L3 (Espanya), Bus: Placa Espanya, FFCC: Espanya, Bus: lines 13 50, Tourist Bus: Caixa Forum Pavelló Mies van der Rohe 5

6 photo: Beat Marugg photo: Beat Marugg International Convention Center (CCIB) Avinguda Diagonal Barcelona This multi-purpose cultural building includes a very large auditorium, a multi-functional performing space, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, and a restaurant and foyer, in addition to technical services, loading docks, storage spaces, and car parking on two levels It was part of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona and has 45 translucent halls, spread over 3 floors, 2 mezzanines and a basement The CCIB and the neighboring building Forum Auditorium (by Swiss architects Herzog and De Meuron), are linked to each other by a 20-meter-wide underground walkway Mateo 'explains': I have gone back to loving the precision of iron: normal, but monstrous, banal but not domestic, superhuman The mega structure is seen proudly in the East façade, opposite the elegant neighbouring triangle The bones are covered in the rest of the building photo: Beat Marugg m² Lighting designer Structural engineer Mateo Arquitectura Biosca & Botey Brufau, Obiol, Moya & Ass Ajuntament de Barcelona MI_MOA Metro: L4 yellow line - Stop "Maresme/Fórum" Bus: Lines NitBus: N6 Tramway: Line 1, Stop Trambesós: Fórum All these stops are located just a few minutes walking away from the CCIB 6

7 photo: Ron Westland photo: Ron Westland Jaume Fuster Library Plaça Lesseps Barcelona Designed by Josep Llinas and Joan Vera in Barcelona, the Jaume Fuster Library was awarded the 2006 FAD ure Prize, the most prestigious contemporary design prize to receive in The project was honoured for its delicate implantation in the urban context and the way it opens up new perspectives on the plaza on which it is situated The expressive volume of the exterior and de abundance of its interiors is richly appreciated It is one of the most modern and biggest public libraries of the city with an auditorium, amphitheatre, exposition room and special kids-spaces According to the magazine Descobrir Catalunya the Jaume Fuster library, the Gas Natural headquarters, the Fórum building and the Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel are some of the new symbols of Barcelona architecture Even though this public project is highly praised, some critics do say that the human scale of the irregularly faceted library seems out of step with its urban context Go see it yourself photo: Ron Westland m² Main designer, Structural engineer Josep Llinás Carmona Joan Vera Garcia ACS Group Ayuntamiento de Barcelona Ron_Westland Monday and Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 21:00 h From Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 21:00 h Sunday: 11:00 14:00 h Metro: Lesseps (L-3) Bus: 22, 24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 74, 87,

8 photo: Ferran Freixa photo: Ferran Freixa CCCB Montalegre Barcelona The Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona is a dedicated to cities and the phenomena they generate; because they have become the social, urbanistic and cultural catalyst of our times and organizes exhibitions, music, dance, courses, debates, lectures, city walks It is The CCCB is in the old but renovated Casa de la Caritat, located in the Raval district The architects: "By changing just one of the sides of the courtyard and using the basement to improve communication and access, we have a very negotiable layout" The sheer glass wall off the courtyard comes as something of a rude shock The left-hand side of the wall is of dark glass; the right-hand side, very slightly offset, is light The wall cants out over the courtyard at an angle of 60 degrees It s part of an impressive cultural belt, near the Ramblas, which runs from the University of Barcelona, past the Biblioteca de Catalunya and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, to the Pompeu Fabra University and next to Meier's MACBA m² Albert Viaplana Helio Piñon Barcelona Municipal Council MI_MOA photo: Ferran Freixa From Tuesday to Sunday: 11 am to 8 pm Closed: Non-holiday Mondays, 25 December and 1 January Special Opening times: 24, 26 and 31 December, 5 and 6 January, 11 am to 3 pm Metro: lines 1, 2 and 3 (Plaça Catalunya and Plaça Universitat), and the FGC and RENFE railways Bus routes: 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 24, 38, 41, 50, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 66, 67, 68, 91, 120, 141, L94, L95, Tombús, Aerobús Car parks: Pl Castella, Calle dels Àngels, Pl Catalunya 8

9 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Luca Pitasi MACBA Plaça dels Angels Barcelona Built on a previously monastic enclave near the historic Casa de la Caritat -the area near the Ramblas, in the Old Gothic QuarterMeier's Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona appears massive, bright, white, pristine and inviting, contrasting starkly with the rather down-at-heel surroundings it is intended to help regenerate Clad in white enamelled-steel panels, the plaza elevation is animated by the horizontal louvers of the ramp-hall and by two plaster sculptural elements, a cut-out plane above the entrance and a free-form, top-lit special exhibitions gallery set in advance of the building at the eastern end of the main facade The sculptural elements of the main facade show themselves to full effect in the Mediterranean sun in the square, while effectively filtering the sunlight entering the building Inside generous circulation space and ramps benefit from the sunlight, while allowing a more subdued light level to permeate through to the rather plain exhibition spaces m² Contractor Lighting designer Richard Meier COMSA Renfro Design Group Consorci Museu d'art Contemporani MI_MOA photo: Naomi Schiphorst September 25th to June 23th: Weekdays 11 am to 730 pm Saturdays 10 am to 8 pm Sundays and holidays 10 am to 3 pm June 24th to September 24th: Weekdays 11 am to 8 pm Thursdays 11 am to midnight Saturdays 10 am to 8 pm Sundays and holidays 10 am to 3 pm Closed on Tuesdays (except holidays), December 25th and January 1st MACBA is a short walk to the west from La Rambla and Plaça de Catalunya Metro lines 1 and 3 (Catalunya station) 9

10 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Santa Catarina Market Avinguda de Francesc Cambó Barcelona Wonderful Mercat Santa Caterina strikes a magical balance between local producers and consumers, contemporary architecture and tourism The redevelopment retains its original use as a retail food market A huge, undulating canopy covers an existing, former rundown neo-classical market in a large square within sight of the gothic cathedral The canopy consists of a mosaic of 325,000 vividly multicolored hexagonal Spanish tiles set in mortar, "whose various colors recall a sill life of produce" It is a view that will be particularly appreciated by the residents of the neighboring apartment blocks The roof is supported on three primary clear-span trusses that cut through, up and over the roof But, from below, it reads as an organic timber assembly At the opposite end from the retained arcade, an irregular latticework of timber slats brings to mind an Indonesian village hall - a typically offbeat Miralles invention and a reminder that he worked on this design before his death in m² Services engineer Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT PGI Grup Foment de Ciutat Vella MI_MOA photo: Naomi Schiphorst Barcelona's daily food markets are all in covered halls and are open daily between 8am and 3pm and 5pm till 8pm, though times may change in summer and winter Metro : Jaume I (Line 4) 10

11 photo: Mieke Vullings photo: Wojtek Gurak Esplanade and Photovoltaic power plant Avinguda del Camp de la Bota Barcelona One of the intentions of the Forum 2004 in Barcelona was to take advantage of the area s existing infrastructure So they integrated the existing Besòs sewage treatment plant (total urban renovation area 100 hectares) and covered parts of it with photovoltaics On the plaza, the Esplanade, is a sailing school, also covered with panels The Pergola stands a bit further out towards the sea, on the entrance to the new Port Forum A sculptural concrete structure with a simple plane offers a nice place of shade on its otherwise large, empty and mostly hot area Expected performance ratio of Pergola system: 1250 kwh/kwp (annual yield app 554 MWh/year) The city has 55 projects to establish a more sustainable city model, whilst reducing environmental impact through energy savings, an increase in the use of renewable energies and energy efficiency In order to maximize solar exposure throughout the year, the panel faces south and is tilted at a 35 angle Excellent sea views m² Martínez Lapeña - Torres Arquitectos INABENSA Phönix SonnenStrom Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004 Services engineer Project manager photo: Wojtek Gurak 24/7 MI_MOA If you walk or cycle along the sea from the Port Olímpic for about 3 km, you ll get to this area (also accessible by tram from the city) Well worth a visit 11

12 photo: Merijn Neeleman photo: Dirk Verwoerd Fish Carrer de Ramon Trias Fargas Barcelona One of the first public projects of Gehry is the Barcelona Fish a huge fish sculpture placed on Barcelona s waterfront for the 1992 Olympics The monumental fish sculpture functions as a landmark in the Olympic Village, anchoring a retail complex designed by Gehry Partners within a larger hotel development by Skidmore, Owing & Merill This fish sculpture was also a landmark in the history of Frank O Gehry & Associates, inaugurating the firm's use of computer-aided design and manufacturing The project's financial and scheduling constraints prompted James M Glymph, a partner in the firm, to search for a computer program that would facilitate the design and construction process, leading to the adoption of CATIA (computer aided three-dimensional interactive application) The sculpture was modeled entirely in 3D and delivered directly to the fabricators as a 3D model The fish is a frequently recurring motif in Gehry's work, serving as inspiration and mascot photo: Wojtek Gurak 1992 Gehry Partners City of Barcelona / 1992 Olympics MI_MOA The fish is viewed from the public street, so its open 24/7 Metro: Barceloneta, Ciutadella/Villa Olimpica 12

13 photo: Diego Barazza photo: Enric Duch Hospital Militar Police Station Avenida Hospital Militar Barcelona This police station, part of a spatial masterplan for the entire Hospital Militar area, is the most striking of the three already realized buildings The top section on the street side projects five metres beyond the lower part, by means of a steel structure The resulting portico ushers the visitor inside At the rear, a set-back equal to the projection at the front provides a counter movement to the green embankment Emblazoned in man-sized letters on the recessed, ground-floor street façade is the word MOSSOS (The regional police force) It was done using the same pixel technique that Salvador Dalí employed in 'Lincoln in Dalívision' Inside, the building concentrates on its function as a work environment: open and light, clearly organized and indifferent to the question of whether it conforms to a particular image This is most apparent in the cells which are painted pink and have no sharp angles 2006 Mestura arquitectes Departement d'interior / Generalitat de Catalunya photo: Enric Duch Sander_Laudy 13

14 photo: Beat Marugg photo: Beat Marugg Colegio Mayor Sant Jordi Ricardo Zamora 4/ Barcelona "In the location that used to be a football pitch, the new building for the Sant Jordi Students' Hall of Residence and the offices for the UB Media Foundation pretend on the one hand to recover the profile of the recently built perimetric housing blocks and on the other hand, through a light, low building, both in its shape and materials, keep the general dimensions of the site Metallic and glass surfaces are an indication of the characteristics of the facility, different from its neighbouring residential buildings" (Josep Lluís Mateo, from Memory of the competition, 2001) photo: Beat Marugg Public access unknown! m² Mateo Arquitectura Colegio Mayor Saint Jordi de la Universitat de Barcelona pdb-genotype Metro :line L3 to María Cristina Bus: Diagonal: 6,7,33,34,63,67,68,78, T1, N

15 photo: Adrià Goula photo: Adrià Goula Can Ricart Sport Complex Carrer de Sant Oleguer Barcelona The building completes the urban block bounded by two different public open spaces urally the project strategy starts from the existing conditions that made it especially complex ie the integration of two buildings with strong identities, the sports pavilion (from the nineties) and the industrial building of the 19th century The main effort of the architects was to arrive at a compact and coherent functional whole that volumetrically maintains the reading of the three bodies that form it: the two existing buildings and the new construction that contains the swimming pool, all formally autonomous The new building is materially and formally austere The façade is made from exposed in-situ concrete, giving a texture that is a homage to the start of the textile industry in Catalonia in this area of the city The texture has come from a specially combined formwork of timber planks of different characteristics photo: Adrià Goula m² vora arquitectura Foment de Ciutat Vella thomas metro: L2-L3 Paral lel, L3 Liceu bus: 20, 24, 36, 57, 64, 91, 120,

16 photo: Pere Pratdesaba photo: Ferran Freixa Fundació Joan Miró Parc de Montjuïc Barcelona Set up by Miró, the Foundation is a dynamic centre where art experts and the public in general come in contact not only with his own work but also with the main currents in 20th-century art Josep Lluís Sert created an open-plan structure where interior communicates with the exterior, producing a perfect balance between architecture and landscape The basic material is reinforced concrete painted white On the outside, the marks left by the shuttering are combined with prefabricated panels of a granular texture, while the white interior walls create a restful atmosphere Other features such as the terracotta tiles, the wooden edgings to the steps, are, like the colour, typical of vernacular architecture in the Mediterranean The austere yet pleasing forms of Sert s designs are of similar origin: the central patio, the apertures and the shallow vaulted ceilings Distinctive features are the octagonal tower housing the Auditorium, the Library and an exhibition room photo: Pere Pratdesaba Main designer, Josep Lluís Sert Jaume Freixa Fundació Joan Miro boeboe Tuesdays to Saturdays: October-June: July-September: Thursdays Sundays and public holidays: Mondays (except public holidays) Closed Special rate for groups of over 15 persons Group reservations: education[at]bcnfjmiroes or (34) Special tours through the building on the first Saturday of every month at 1230 h (From 6/10/07 til 28/6/08) The tours are free, but in Spanish or Catalan only! Bus 50 "Trinitat nova-parc de Montjuïc Bus 55 "Pl Catalana - Parc de Montjuïc" Funicular de Montjuïc (Metro Paral lel) Parking outside the Foundation The museum is situated on the Avinguda de Miramar Close to the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe 16

17 photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Diagonal Mar Park Av Diagonal y Cinturón Ronda Litoral Barcelona It's design favours an interaction with the city It is organised by following a series of paths, which similar to the branches of a tree, spread out in all directions A type of Rambla, a main thoroughfare, connects La Diagonal directly to the nearby beach crossing the Litoral ring by means of a pedestrian bridge and it transforms itself into a series of recreational tracks: to stroll, for skating, cycling, walking etc A large area of water in which there are various fountains, the flow of water and the vegetation on its edges oxygenates the water The presence of the water characterises the vegetation of the zone and the vegetation spreads following the direction of the shores near the sea and the lake It is growing taller and denser until it reaches the adjacent streets Small places are to be found on the edges of the park Places where a series of large ceramic vases join with the existing vegetation, similar to the garden of a house " Miralles Tagliabue" photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Landscape designer Technical engineer Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT EDAW Europroject Consultores Asociados Diagonal Mar / HINES MVar By Car: Access routes to Diagonal Mar include Avenida Diagonal, Ronda Litoral and Rambla Prim and are within a twenty minute drive from the city centre By Public Transport: The Diagonal Mar Centre is connected by a network of ten bus and three underground lines linked to all points of the city Underground Stations: Maresme / Forum, Selva de Mar, Besós-Mar Buses Lines: Lines 7, 36, 41, 43, 141, N-6, N

18 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Biomedical Research Park Dr Aiguader 88 E Barcelona PRBB building has a total surface of more than m2 and is located at a 9000 m2 site at Barcelona's seafront by the beach, between Hospital del Mar (with a connection to it) and Arts hotel in the Olympic Village It is a 117x74 meters building of 9 floors above and 3 floors under ground with an elliptical shape and a high level of functional poly-valence The building project has been carried out by a team of two prestigious architects: Manel Brullet and Albert de Pineda, to create a building that adopts the specific objectives of PRBB Facade covered in red cedar controlling the incidence of light and sun, as well as lightening the structure photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Project is not public! m² Main designer, Manel Brullet Alberto de Pineda Ayuntamiento de Barcelona & Universidad Pompeu Fabra MVar Metro Station: Ciutadella Vila Olimpica or just walk the Passeig Maritim and you will find it 18

19 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Communications Tower Carrer de Pierre de Coubertin Barcelona The 136 m high communications tower designed by Santiago Calatrava (also know as Torre de Calatrava) was one of the landmarks of Barcelona in 1992 The extensive silhouette of the Montjuic mountain was changed forever in that instance, re-urbanised for the celebration of the Olympic Games and the city in general 1992 Santiago Calatrava City of Barcelona Naomi photo: Wojtek Gurak Metro: L1 and L3 (Espanya) Bus: 50, 55, 61 and PM Free admission 19

20 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Torre Agbar Avda Diagonal Barcelona "This tower might be a distant echo of old Catalan obsessions, carried on the winds that blown in from Montserrat" said Jean Nouvel Inspired by the architectural legacy left behind by Gaudi and by the hills of Montserrat, the Agbar Tower rises from the ground with the power and lightness of a geyser The tower consists out of 3 non-concentric oval cylinders The inner cylinder holds the vertical traffic nucleus and the installations Between the central axis and the exterior there are 31 spacious floor without internal columns Its first skin covers the concrete walls, is a layer of polished aluminum in earthy tones and blues, greens and greys The second skin is made up of sheets of clear an translucent glass A LED system is used for the night lights The leds are orientated toward the interior skin of the sheet plating, bathing it in uniform light, without projecting the light outwards m² Associate architect Jean Nouvel b720 arquitectos Layetana Inmuebles MatthijsvanderSluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis The Agbar Tower is located at the Placa de Les Glòries, the meeting point of the city's three most important communication arteries: La Diagional, La Gran Vía and la Meridiana Located at the entrance to the new technological and business district know as 22@ Take the subway to Glòries, Line 1 Bus: 7, 56, 60, 92, 192, B21, N2, N0, N7 tram: 4 comunicacion@agbares or call (34)

21 photo: Hans Brinker Botanical Garden Carrer del Doctor Font i Quer Barcelona Barcelona s Botanical Garden was designed by a team: architects Carlos Ferrater and Josep Lluís Canosa; landscape architect Bet Figueras; horticulturalist Artur Bossy and biologist Joan Pedrola First was considered how the vegetation was structured It was important to plan the layout according to geographic criteria, grouping the plants in the world s 5 Mediterranean regions And within these regional groupings, the plants should be combined according to ecological affinity, thus recreating landscapes as found in nature Secondly the mountain itself provides the topographic conditions for establishing the different plant areas This entailed designing the network of paths around the natural relief and avoiding large earth moving operations The result was a triangular-shaped network adapted to the available space and the mountain slopes This mesh of paths marked out the 71 spaces containing the principal plant communities found in Mediterranean climate regions all over the world photo: Hans Brinker Main designer, Landscape architect Landscape designer Landscape designer Carlos Ferrater Bet Figueras Josep Lluís Canosa Artur Bossy Joan Pedrola Monfort City of Barcelona hansbrinker November, December and January: from Monday to Sunday, from 10 am to 5 pm February, March and October: from Monday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm April, May and September: from Monday to Sunday, from 10 am to 7 pm June, July and August: from Monday to Sunday, from 10 am to 8 pm closed January 1 and December 25 admission is free on the last Sunday of the month Metro Espanya (L1 and L3) and bus Parc de Montjuïc Buses: Parc de Montjuïc or 50 and 55 Free tours at weekends (except August), visits by arrangement, audioguide, OCCM scientific media library, disabled access, public parking area, loan and hire of facilities call

22 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Subcentral Eléctrica Carrer de Tánger Barcelona In the newly built office area of in Barcelona, this was one of the first buildings to be completed This newly developed neighborhood is situated between the Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel and the Forum area where the exposition building by Herzog and De Meuron is located The facade is made out of ochre-died concrete, covered with steel cables, on which plants grow in a pre-designed pattern photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Project is not public! m² Victor Rahola Aguadé MatthijsvanderSluis 22

23 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Indra Offices Carrer de Tánger Barcelona Situated near the Torre Agbar, in the new business neighborhood of in Barcelona, this Corporative Office Building for Indra s Headquarters, is clad with perforated steel panels, that give an image or feeling of fabric The building has a strange shape, following the plot Project is not public! photo: Matthijs van der Sluis m² Main designer, b720 arquitectos Carlos Ferrater R&AS arquitectos Grupo Castellv'i MatthijsvanderSluis 23

24 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Palau de la Musica Extension Calle Palau de la Música Barcelona The Palau de la Música Catalana, originally built in 1908 by the architect, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, as a headquarters for the Orfeó Català and funded by popular donations, constitutes a symbolic and sentimental heritage of an entire city that identifies with its history It is one of the most representative buildings of Catalan Modernist style The façade of Domènech i Montaner s Modernista concert hall, with its bare brick, busts and mosaic friezes representing Catalan musical traditions and composers, is impressive enough, but it is surpassed by the building s staggering interior The old Palau has been bursting under the pressure of the musical activity going on inside it, and an extension, restoration, remodelling and renovation project by Oscar Tusquets and Carles Díaz in 1989 is being followed by further alterations by the same architect In 1997, the Palau de la Música Catalana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with Hospital de Sant Pau photo: Hans Brinker Project is not public! 1989 Main designer, Oscar Tusquets Blanca Lluís Domènech i Montaner Palau de la Música Catalana MatthijsvanderSluis The Palau de la Música Catalana organises daily guided tours of the Modernist Concert hall and, when available, Lluís Millet Hall and the Chamber Music Hall Tours can not be reserved, and tickets can be purchased as of one week before the day of the tour Advanced ticket purchase is recommended Ticket office opens at 9:30 Buses: Lines 17, 19, 40 and 45 Metro: Lines I and IV Urquinaona station 24

25 Equipamientos Londres-Villarroel Calle Londres Barcelona This project is an intervention whose goal is to clear a saturated residential fabric The incorporation of a varied programme on this block, such as subsidised housing for young people, a primary school and sports fields, allows a reinterpretation of the typological possibilities of this block in the urban development by Cerdà with a direct relationship between inside and outside and a break in the buildings that does not impede the view of the original urban elements However, the façade of the buildings creates a proportion and space rhythm whose relationship with its actual surroundings is open to discussion Regarding the advantages that this type of programme contributes to the context, not only are the community facilities very much worth noting, but the revitalisation of the population of 19th century bourgeois urban developments with a type of user that is becoming scarcer and scarcer Project is not public! m² Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos City of Barcelona aplust photo: José Hevia The project is situated in the area of l'eixample in Barcelona 25

26 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Illa de la Llum Passeig de Garcia Fària Barcelona This project forms part of one of the most important recent urban planning operations in Barcelona, the extension of the Diagonal all the way to the sea This brought about a considerable improvement to the quality of life in an until then marginal neighbourhood and the recovery of a declining industrial area As compensation, the vertiginous rise in the price of land has turned these promotions into exclusive areas, available to very few buyers and with a dubious wish of integration in the social and urban fabric The merit of the project is, above all, its capacity to hold a respectable number of high rise housing units and ability to maintain its dynamics This not only happens because of its strategically placed voids but also because of its exterior closure which dominates the façade and creates constant variation Project is not public! m² Lluis Collet & Ignacio Aparicio Espais & Landscape Diagonal Mar aplust photo: Lluis Casals Underground stops: Maresme / Forum, Selva de Mar, Besós-Mar Bus stops: Lines 7, 36, 41, 43, 141, N

27 Social Housing at Sant Agustí Vell Serra Xic Barcelona This is a model insertion of homes in a historical district and contributes residential density to its surroundings Historical districts possess a large amount of services and infrastructures in a very small amount of space These services and infrastructures must be taken advantage of, and because of that the restoration of historic districts and the arrival of younger generations is beneficial However, some highly dense areas require a spatial cleaning up of their fabric, physically and programmatically, with the addition of quality public spaces and collective facilities nearby Project is not public! m² Josep Llinás Carmona aplust photo: Julio Cunill 27

28 photo: Casa Camper photo: Casa Camper Casa Camper Carrer Elisabets Barcelona Casa Camper is a genuine 100% Camper product and not a licensed brand extension Twenty two years after opening the first shoe shop in Barcelona, Camper now open their first hotel in the Raval district Camper created this new unique hotel with the intention of providing its guests with an oasis of tranquillity in the middle of a district quite the contrary, Raval is crowded and bustling with city life If one didn't notice the aged illuminated H-O-T-E-L sign, and simply passed by the gallery windows, or walked into the hall, one might think they were in a bicycle store or art gallery Looking up, there are 10 bicycles hanging from the ceiling waiting to be used by visiting guests All intentionally provoking confusion to the passer by, looking in on to this unique space, from the busy street photo: Casa Camper 2004 Main designer, Interior architect Graphic designer Graphic designer Jordi Tió Fernando Amat Albert Planas América Sánchez Camper MI_MOA Casa Camper is an outstanding building strategically located at the busy cross section between the Ramblas and the MACBA museum in Barcelona + (34) barcelona@casacampercom 28

29 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Municipal Sailing School Moll del Gregal Port Olímpic Barcelona This project was part of a larger masterplan for the Olympic Port of Barcelona, and urban plan which balances between the needs for a leisure port and a centre of new urban activities, forming a new 'wet' square for the city The sailing school's main premises are situated beneath the raised north-east promenade The school's boathouse, sited in the building, acts as the termination of the raised north-east promenade and the linchpin of the connection with the linear system of breakwaters The building is composed of two volumes with brilliant white façades, crowned with a total of 24 pyramids which resolve the problems of permanent lighting, ventilation and protection from the water The group of pyramids articulates a relatively private square intended for warm-up exercises prior to sailing, with direct access to the sea by means of a slipway, which makes unnecessary to leave through the harbour mouth 1991 Main designer, MBM arquitectes Albert Puigdomènech Naomi photo: Naomi Schiphorst Tel , cmv@fcvcat From Monday to Friday: 10:00 h 19:00 h Metro: L4, Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica or Bogatell Bus: 6, 36, 41, 92 and 141 Tram (T4), Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica 29

30 photo: Lutz Hirschmann photo: chaland Umbracle Passeig de Picasso Barcelona The Umbracle (shade house) was part of the buildings designed for the Universal Exhibition and was build in 1883, being used through the exhibition as a pavilion After the event the building recovered its original function, and it is one of the few structures that still prevail from the original exhibition Many other buildings from important architects of the time disappeared after the exhibition was closed This shade house is formed of bare brick façades and wooden louvres to sift the light through the inside The structure in the interior is sustained by slender iron columns, leaving a closed space that produces a suitable thermal and humidity conditions for the implantations of vegetal species from tropical origins photo: Marta Muñoz 1888 Josep Fontsere Naomi 30

31 photo: Davide Pellegrini photo: Davide Pellegrini Ciutat de la Justicia Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes Barcelona On a border site between Barcelona and l'hospitalet, this new sqm City of Justice has been completed in 2008 Bringing together legal departments that were previously located in 17 buildings that were scattered across the two cities, this precinct comprises eight new buildings that are formally and compositionally unified in an apparently haphazard arrangement In form and disposition, the City of Justice breaks down the huge programme of accommodation into four judicial buildings, clustered around a linked concourse with four independent buildings set on the periphery The central cluster of buildings contains courtrooms at the ground level, and uses the concourse as a filter to gather people at the beginning and end of their judicial visit The remaining four buildings provide accommodation for judicial support services, such as forensic sciences, and include two commercial buildings with retail at grade photo: Davide Pellegrini Project is not public! m² Associate architect David Chipperfield s b720 arquitectos DavidePellegrini 31

32 photo: Pedro Pegenaute photo: Fernando Guerra Can Framis Museum Carrer Roc Boronat Barcelona eries/can-framis-museum-barcelona/ The new Fundación Vila Casas museum is located in the District, an area where Barcelona City Hall has promoted a full redevelopment of a former factory/heavy industry zone by substituting premises with light service industries It is now primarily a high-rise, heavily built-up area housing service/hi-tech industries With Can Framis we aim to play on contrasts, with a surrounding garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time The mainly-paved garden will have many trees and winding paths which will embellish the cloak of ivy which already covers the environs and in the future will enshroud the building and trees The two buildings to be preserved have little architectural worth and are currently derelict Their main interest lies in the contrast of their location, based on the former agricultural sketches prior to the implementation of the Cerdà plan at a level of 15m below the current road photo: Fernando Guerra m² BAAS Jordi Badia Fundació Vila Casas BAASarquitectura Hours: Tues - Sat: 1100 to 1800 Closed: Mon, Sun and holidays Closed Easter: Thurs and Fri Closed Summer: August take Metro L1 to Glòries or L4 Llacuna Bus: 7, 192, 6, 40, 42, 141, B25 Tel Fax canframis@fundaciovilacasascom 32

33 photo: Pedro Pegenaute photo: Eugeni Pons Court of Sant Boi Carles Martí-Vila Barcelona The building is centred around three vertical bars separated by three courtyards on a plinth Large skylights illuminate the ground-floor entrance hall This hall acts as a focus point for all public areas and their vertical nuclei The hearing rooms and the upper bars, one per room, of the judicial offices are situated on the plinth Four areas in each corner allow access and communication for the public, judges, court workers etc The civil registry office opens out onto the rear street, emphasising the important role it plays in the façade as a whole and the surrounding public area The concrete sheets are placed at different distances and inclinations, giving a certain dynamic feel (a court should appear agile and alive) to the building, while at the same time orienting and framing the visual impact As a result, the image of the façades gradually changes depending on where you look at the building from photo: Pedro Pegenaute m² GISA Departament de Justicia Generalitat de Catalunya BAASarquitectura 33

34 photo: Rafael Vargas photo: Rafael Vargas Mestre Nicolau 19 Carrer del Mestre Nicolau Barcelona The complete refurbishment of this office building with serious structural problems allowed its transformation into a corporate building It took into account the need to achieve a high level of flexibility and required services, as well as designing a new façade that identifies it as a modern corporate building, using colour as a differentiating tool On the façade, transparent, coloured glass slats form a plane in front of the enclosure The set changes gradually in colour and density Horizontally, the gradation of colour varies from yellow to orange tones, borrowing awnings on the balconies that surround it Vertically, the density of the slats is determined by the solar radiation and the size of the street that makes protection on the higher levels more necessary The forging of the ground floor was rebuilt to the street level elevation, while the forging of the basement was raised to obtain an underdevelopment of the parking ramp Project is not public! m² b720 arquitectos Layetana Inmuebles b720_arquitectos photo: Rafael Vargas 34

35 photo: Duccio Malagamba photo: Duccio Malagamba Diagonal 197 Avinguda Diagonal Barcelona Although this building has a non-continuous front façade on Avinguda Diagonal, at the back it aligns with the axis that is initiated by the nearby Torre Agbar The building has two distinct parts: ten lower floors, irregular and rhomboid-shaped, which are aligned to Avinguda Diagonal and become the basement of the building; and seven upper floors, trapezoidal-shaped, which break the alignment These floors retreat into the interior of the structure, creating a slimmer volume that crowns the building The amount is set on 5665 m2 above ground and 7300 below ground Unique in its composition, the earth-tone façade consists of front-hole, horizontal architraves, which are supported by vertical structures The panels are precast reinforced concrete with fiberglass and coloured mass of GRC (Glass Reinforced Concrete) Project is not public! Main designer, David Chipperfield s b720 arquitectos Layetana Promociones Inmobiliarias b720_arquitectos photo: Duccio Malagamba 35

36 photo: Jordi Farrando photo: Jordi Farrando Príncep de Girona Gardens Carrer de Lepant Barcelona photo: Jordi Farrando Cerdà's design for the Eixample included a series of green areas as facilities for the area However, the new city gradually became more and more built up Nowadays, no parks can be created in this area without first demolishing large buildings on sites which are turned to other uses and transformed into public spaces This is the case of the Jardins del Príncep de Girona, on the site of a former military barracks With a surface area of just over two hectares, the project for the new gardens was based around the tree-lined space that was the central courtyard of the barracks The original square court has been enlarged appreciably, maintaining the existing plane of trees and creating a large central esplanade for all kinds of future activities The esplanade contains a 1900 m2 stretch of water which, with its changing interplay of light and reflections, becomes the focus of attention for both the gardens and the neighbourhood m² Building costs consultant Jordi Farrando Elpidi Pedreny Barcelona Town Hall farrando 36

37 photo: Pedro Penguante Banco Sabadell Atlantico Entrance and Awning Pl Sant Roc Barcelona This project consists of a minor intervention in the entrance to an existing bank building The architects have highlighted the intervention at three different levels Firstly, the flooring is a white sheet that touches the ground at either extreme (as a ramp or as a stairway) and floats over it at the centre Secondly, the awning is effectively a large trough that collects rainwater and channels it down to the ground at either end Lastly, the finishes of the doorway (a series of mirrors, doormats and glazed surfaces) seek to break down the image of passage into independent photographic stills, highlighting the singularity of the movement: an interchange between exterior and interior photo: Beat Marugg Public access unknown! Structural engineer Contractor Associate architect Associate architect Associate architect Associate architect Mateo Arquitectura Agustí Obiol G56 Ismael Heras Mariana Castro Miriam Moreno Sara Cardoso Banc de Sabadell MateoArquitectura 37

38 photo: Ariel Ramírez photo: Ariel Ramírez ME Barcelona Hotel Carrer Pere IV Barcelona Initially known as Hotel Habitat Sky, the building was sold in 2008 to Melia Hotels Hence, its name was changed to Hotel ME Barcelona The hotel is thought of as a play of volumes A cubic building acts as a counterpoint behind the tower, which is a rectangular parallelepiped cut lengthwise in two, with one of them half-shifted skywards This rupture of the perfect geometric block creates a movement of form and volume that bestows an urban sense on the insertion of the tower in the horizontal city The shifted half-volume creates the building's reference signs: down, the cantilever at 25 metres height that acts as a gateway; up, the crest in the skyline The hotel's skin is made of micro-perforated aluminium behind a glass curtain wall, which gives the building the image of a bright metal needle m² Main designer, Associate architect Dominique Perrault AIA Salazar Navarro Corada Figueras Arquitectos Habitat Inmobiliaria Jose_Garcia photo: José F García Martín 38

39 photo: José F García Martín photo: José F García Martín Casa de la Marina Passeig de Joan de Borbó Barcelona This building was the first urban apartment block carried out from start to finish by Coderch and Valls The urban context of the building in the 1950s was not valuable property, namely Barceloneta's narrow streets and Barcelona's industrial port For this reason, Coderch and Valls designed an introverted housing block where the exterior views are always conditioned by fixed venetian-type blinds The construction has affinities with the Italian avant-garde of the time, especially with Ignazio Gardella's work The building has a classic composition in three blocks: a two-storey zocalo for commercial use, combining large glazed areas and small-scale masonry; a six-storey body of apartments, composed by vertical strips of glazed ceramic tiles and the aforementioned white venetian blinds, and the coronation with a big eave of wooden boards Project is not public! m² Main designer, Josep Antoni Coderch Manel Valls Vergés Instituto Social de la Marina Jose_Garcia photo: José F García Martín 39