TORRE DE COMMUNICATIONS

Torre de Collserola is a uniquely designed tower located on the Tibidabo hill in the Serra de Collserola, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by architect Sir Norman Foster, and built in 1991 for the 1992 Summer Olympics. It features a pod for floor space like many towers but uses guy wires for lateral support like a mast. Mainly used as a TV and radio transmitter, this futuristic design provides the highest viewpoint over the city. The top antenna reaches 288.4m (946 ft) and the top of the pod, which has thirteen floors, reaches 152m (499 ft).The tenth floor of the pod is open to the public.

Collserola, carretrera de vallvidrra al tibidado

HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU

The present Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Catalan for Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the neigh­borhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona (Spain), is a com­plex built bet­ween 1901 and 1930, de­si­gned by the Ca­ta­lan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. To­ge­ther with Palau de la Mú­sica Catalana, it is a UNESCO World He­ri­tage Site. It was a fully func­tio­n­ing hos­pi­tal until June 2009, it is cur­rently un­der­go­ing resto­ra­tion for use as a mu­seum and cul­tu­ral cen­ter. As of De­cem­ber 2009 there are still tours of the hos­pi­tal being given se­veral times a day.

St. Antoni Maria Claret, 167
Metro L 5, Hospital Sant Pau

CASA AMATLLER

This was an existing building, but renovated by Puig for chocolatemanufacturer Antoni Amattler. It has a stepped gable, and a facade with floral Neogothic details. Symbols used are a dragon and Saint George.

Passeig de Gràcia 41
Metro L 3, Passeig de Gràcia

CASA MILA

This was his last private commission before he devoted himself to religious projects. Gaudí was free to design this corner block of apartments the way he wanted. His goal was to create a completely new form of housing. The ideas for it developed out of the ideas of the Casa Battló, but go even further in exaggeration and distortion. With this building Gaudí shows to be a genius of great intelligence and with an enormous creativity. La Pedrera is the architectural demonstration of his interpretation of nature : the massive blocks of stone of the façade recall the mountains, the curves of the façade reflect the sea, and the ironworks represent plants and flowers.

Passeig de Gràcia 92
Metro L 3, Passeig de Gràcia

FORUM BUILDING

The Forum Building, designed by the Swiss architects Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron), is an architectural landmark in 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 m2.

Avinguda Diagonal 1
Metro: L4, Maresme/Fórum

TORRE AGBAR

The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, is a 33-story tower at Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm b720 Arquitectos and built by Dragados. It opened in June 2005 and was inaugurated officially by the King of Spain on 16 September 2005. The Torre Agbar is located in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona and is named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barcelona water company Aigües de Barcelona.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Agbar

Avinguda Diagonal 209-211
Metro L5 Glories

CAIXA FORUM

Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós (Vic 1838 - Barcelona 1913) commissioned the famous architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Mataró 1867 - Barcelona 1956) to design a factory for his textile-production enterprise. In addition to being a widely acknowledged architect whose works included the Amatller, Macaya, Quadras and Terradas houses, Puig i Cadafalch also played a leading role in the art-nouveau movement alongside Gaudí and Domènech i Montaner.

The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki designed the main entrance and the visitors' reception area in the Centre.

Access to CaixaForum is by way of a sculpted structure in the form of metal trees covered by panes of glass. This is a full-blown work of art, combining a sensation of lightness with a hint of the oriental, all intended to welcome the visitor to CaixaForum. The escalators and the lift run from Isozaki's sculpture down to the open-air English courtyard below, which gives onto the foyer.

This part of the building also houses the "Secret garden", a minimalist, intimate, closed-off dwelling

http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/english/caixaforumbarcelona/thebuilding_en.html

Av Marques de Comillas, 6-8
Metro: L1, L3 place Espanya

BARCELONA PAVILION BY MIES VAN DER ROHE

The Barcelona Pavilion, a work emblematic of the Modern Movement, has been exhaustively studied and interpreted as well as having inspired the oeuvre of several generations of architects. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) 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 Spain along with the German authorities.

http://www.miesbcn.com/en/pavilion.html

Av. Marquès de Comilles
Metro: L1, L3 place Espanya

MONTJUIC COMMUNICATIONS TOWER / PALAU SANT JORDI

The Montjuic Communications Tower (Torre Telefónica) is a telecommunication tower in the Montjuïc neighborhood of Barcelona, Spain. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, construction on the tower began in 1989 and was completed in 1992. The white tower was built for Telefónica to transmit television coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics Games in Barcelona. The 136 m (446 ft) tower is located in the Olympic park, and represents an athlete holding the Olympic Flame.

Palau Sant Jordi (English: St. George's Palace) is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose installation located in Barcelona, Spain. The maximum seating capacity of the arena is 16,500 for sporting events and 24,000 for musical events. It was opened in 1990 and designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The Palau Sant Jordi was one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Nowadays, it is used for all kinds of indoor sport events as well as for concerts and other cultural activities, due to its great flexibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montjuic

Passeig Olympica
Bus L 55, 193

Estadi Olimpic

Pere Domènech i Roura 1929
Renovated:
Federico correra, alfons mila,
Joan margarit, vittorio gregotti 1986 - 1989


Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (formerly known as the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc) is a stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city (and Barcelona's bid for the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Berlin), it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] The stadium has a capacity of 55,926 (70,000 during the 1992 Olympics), and is located in the Anella Olímpica, in Montjuïc, a large hill to the southwest of the city which overlooks the harbour.
In 2001 the stadium was renamed after the former president of the Generalitat de Catalunya Lluís Companys i Jover, who was executed at the nearby Montjuïc Castle in 1940 by the Franco regime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadi_Ol%C3%ADmpic_Llu%C3%ADs_Companys

Where to find:
Passeig Olympic
Bus L 55, 193

Anella Olímpica

1986-1992


Carles Buxade, Federico Correa,
Joan Margarit, Alfons Mila 1992
The Anella Olímpica (English: Olympic Ring) is an Olympic Park located in the hill of Montjuïc, Barcelona, that was the main site for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The major facilities consist of the Olympic Stadium, or Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, the Palau Sant Jordi sports hall, the telecommunications tower designed by Santiago Calatrava, the National Physical Education Institute (INEFC) and the Picornell swimming pools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anella_Ol%C3%ADmpica

Where to find:
Anela Olympica
Bus L 55, 193

Natural Gas Company Tower

Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT 2007


As a living creature that reacts to external impulses, the new building of the company Gas Natural, develops and extends addressing the different conditions of the program and the complex environment.

The aim is to reconcile several objectives: to create an urban landmark in the skyline of Barcelona, to set up a dialogue with the low-rise houses of the neighbourhood and to generate quality public spaces.
The constructible volume, the singular character of this new building, its relationship with the urban periphery makes the new office building of Gas Natural a member of the family of contemporary buildings, which have started to appear on the skyline of the city.

However this doesn’t mean the new building lacks a clear desire to become compatible with it urban surroundings; the small scale of the district of la Barceloneta, the surrounding houses and the park.

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/barcelona/torre_de_gas_natural_embt.htm

Where to find:
Placa del gas 1
Metro: L 4 Barceloneta

passeig de maritim de la barceloneta

1992-1996 public space
jaume artigues, jordi heinrich, miquel ros, olga terasso, ana casteneda.



PREVIOUS STATE
The district of Barceloneta appeared in Barcelona in the second half of the eighteenth century with the partial demolition of the old shoreline district of La Ribera thanks to the construction of a citadel. In order to re-house the affected families, the military planners constructed a new residential area on a regular strip of land obliquely oriented with respect to the sea. In the first third of the nineteenth century, Barceloneta became one of the city's main leisure areas with its public swimming pools, snack bars and restaurants, but the continued and spectacularly increasing population density of the district and the occupation of the beach by a number of factories and port installations gradually brought about a change of image in a sustained process of decay.

The sea front of the district was dominated for more than thirty years by a promenade constructed in 1959. Its concrete structure was very badly conserved and, since it was higher than the level of the residential area, relations between the two elements were very deficient, and Barceloneta's relation with the sea was obstructed. In 1994, with the application of the Law of the Coasts, one of the city’s most popular leisure spaces underwent a metamorphosis, with work that began on remodelling the sea front promenade as part of an operation of transforming and regenerating the shoreline that also involved redefining the built-up face of the sea front.
Where to find:
passeig de maritim de la barceloneta
Metro: L 4 Barceloneta

Palau de la Música Catalana

Lluís Domènech i Montaner 1905-1908



The Palau de la Música Catalana (Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. It was built in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth) (Benton 1986, 56; Fahr-Becker 2004, 199). It was inaugurated February 9, 1908.

Where to find:
C/Sant Francesc de Paula 2
Area : El Born
M: L 1 and 4. Urquinaona station

Picasso Museeum

Jordi Garces 1999

The Picasso museum is "the" museum to visit in Barcelona. For the artist and for the building. Imagine in Montcada street, in the Gothic area, five medieval palaces linked together to make a museum. So charming to visit and a very fast immersion in Catalan?s ambient. Concerning Pablo Ruiz Picasso the museum is indispensable for understanding its formative years. The genius of the young artist is revealed through the more than 3,500 works that make up the permanent collection. It also reveals his relationship with Barcelona: an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, and continued until his death.. You will remember corrida drawing.
To see as well some oils and drawings from Picasso's Barcelona period and even some works from later stages in his career. The Museum also has a set of 42 pieces of ceramic (vases, dishes and plates) made in the 1950s and bequeathed by Jaqueline Picasso in 1982.
You will appreciate the open-air terrace café restaurant and the bookshop.

http://www.museupicasso.bcn.cat/en/

Where to find:
C. Montcada, 15-23
Metro: L 4 Jaume 1

Mercat Santa Caterina

EMBT, Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue 1997-2004


Mercat Santa Caterina (Market Holy Catherine) is the latest market built in Barcelona. Totally renovated in 2005 with brilliance by the architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT, is a little marvel located in the district of Ribera in Ciutat Vella. Beautiful architectural idea for this multicoloured ceramics roof having the shape of wave posed on an air structure of wood, which shelters all the stalls of the market. One finds there all the products of the producers of the area: fruits, vegetables, flowers but also fish, meat.

Source: http://www.barcelona.com/barcelona_directory/monuments/mercat_santa_caterina

Where to find: Francesc Cambó, 16
Metro: L4 Jaume 1

Plaça Vila de Madrid in Barcelona

This project began by analyzing the special role that the Plaza Villa de Madrid plays within the system of public and open spaces in the Gothic quarters of Barcelona

source: http://www.bcq.es/ficha.php?I=3&IDP=4&IDF=102

Where to find: Placa de Madrid
Metro: L 1 L3 Catalunya

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica - an art and cultural centre or CASM is located at the beginning of the lively La Rambla Street, in a former 17th century renaissance style monastery. In 1984 the building received National historic landmark status. Its ancient architecture, carefully preserved and renovated, has obtained a present-day air, as well. One of its modern elements is a ramp, leading to an open-air terrace, featuring a café-restaurant. It offers a relaxing retreat in the heart of the metropolis with a gorgeous panoramic view over the swarming La Rambla Boulevard. CASM, with no permanent exhibition, features about 20 interchanging expositions a year, presenting works of local as well as foreign artists. One of its exhibition halls is set in a former central hall of the monastery, another - one floor up. CASM houses also a cultural centre, holding information about the current events and activities in the city.

Source: http://www.anothertravelguide.com/eng/europe/spain/barcelona/destinations/culture/centre_dart_santa_monica

Where to find: la Rambla 7
Metro: 3

Macba

Richard Meier & partners 1987 – 1996

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA)
Plaza dels Angels, 1
Barcelona
Spain

Meier'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. 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 more plain exhibition spaces. The narrow white columns, railings, glass bricks and different varieties of white skin are straight from Meier's earlier houses, but used here with great effect.
The exhilarating light and form of the circulation space provides some serious competition for the Barcelona contemporary art that is the building's intended focus.

Source: http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/meierbarcelona/index.htm

Museum / current expositions: http://www.macba.cat/controller.php
Where to find
C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Metro: lines 1, 2 and 3 (Catalunya and Universitat)

CCCB centre de cultura contemporania de barcelona

Albert Viaplana, Helio Pinon 1990 – 1993




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.

Source: http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Spain/Barcelona/CCCB


http://www.cccb.org/ca/

Where to find
C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Metro: lines 1, 2 and 3 (Catalunya and Universitat)