Auditoria Park, Forum / Parc dels Auditoris
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
2004
Foreign Office Architecture: Alejandro Zaera-Polo + Farshid Moussavi, Architects



Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make 'man-made dunes'.
Either side of the sweeping valleys are grassy areas with huge clumps of bamboo. The tessellated discs are in two earthy colours - duller than the visuals suggested sadly. When roughly flat they have unfortunate tarmac-like infills and when almost vertical just gaps exposing rubble and earth. Up close the Parc dels Auditoris was a let down (certainly after all the hype of the project and of the architects) for me but the overall atmosphere is quite good and no doubt brilliant for cyclists, skateboarders, etc.

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Other Barcelona buildings near this Foreign Office Architects Park:

Forum Building / Edifici Fòrum
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
2004
Herzog & de Meuron Architects


Forum Bathing Zone / Zona de Banys
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
2004
Beth Gali, Architect


Forum Esplanade with Solar Panels / Esplanada Forum i Pergola Fotovoltaica
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
2004
Torres & Lapena, Architects


Free Zone Consortium Office Building / Edifici d'oficines pel Consorci de la Zone France
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum, Passeig Taulat 266, east Barcelona
2002
Josep Lluís Mateo, Architect


Princess Hotel, Barcelona / Hotel Princess Barcelona
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum, avenue Diagonal 3, east Barcelona
2004
Oscar Tusquets, Architect


Park at Diagonal Mar / Parc de Diagonal Mar
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT Architects




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Auditoria Park, Foreign Office Architecture: Photos © adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Key Barcelona buildings near Auditoria Park:
Forum Building
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
Agbar Tower
Jean Nouvel Architects



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