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St Caterina Market Barcelona, Enric Miralles Architect, Building, Photos, Spain
Santa Caterina Market Building : Architecture
Development by EMBT in Barcelona, Spain
Santa Caterina Market, Redevelopment / Reforma Mercat de Santa Caterina
Barri Gotic, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona
1997-2004
Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT

Photographer: Alex Gaultier
REHABILITATION OF SANTA CATERINA MARKET
Barcelona, 1997-2005
National Award of Generalitat de Catalunya 2001
Spanish Ceramic Awards ASCER 2005 Architectural Prize

Architects: Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Client: Foment de Ciutat Vella S.A.
Definitive Project 1999-2005


Project Director:
Igor Peraza
Collaborators:
Hirotaka Koizumi, Josep Miàs, Marta Cases, Constanza Chara,
Fabián Asunción, Eugenio Cirulli, Santiago Crespi, Gianfranco
Grondona, Lluis Corbella, Massimo Chizzola, Makoto Fukuda, Joan Poca,
Alejandra Vazquez, Marco Dario Chirdel, Josep Belles. Alicia Bramon,
Laura Valentini, Adelaide Passetti, Jorge Carvajal, Andrea Landell
de Moura, Torsten Skoetz, Karl Unglaub, Adrien Verschuere, Loïc
Gestin, Annie Marcela Henao Ezequiel Cattaneo, Leonardo Giovannozzi,
Annette Hoëller, Sabine Bauchmann, Silke Techen,. Barbara Oel
Brandt, Mette Olsen, Florencia Vetcher, Nils Becker, Raphael de Montard,
Montse Galindo, Barbara Appolloni, Jean François Vaudeville,
Peter Sándor Nagy, Ignacio Quintana, Christian Molina, Stefan
Geenen, Maarten Vermeiren, Torsten Schmid, Tobias Gottschalk, Stefan
Eckert, Ute Grolz, Thomas Wuttke, Luca Tonella, Stephanie Le Draoullec,
Monica Carrera, Mirko Sivestri.
Special collaboration: Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats.
Basic Project 1998
Collaborators:
Joan Callis, Makoto Fukuda, Hirotaka Kuizumi, Fabián Asunción,
Ane Ebbeskov Olsen, Dani Rosselló, Francesco Mozzati, Francesco
Jacques-Dias, Fernanda Hannah.
Competition 18 April 1997
Collaborators:
Elena Rocchi, Makoto Fukuda, Ricardo Flores, Fabian Asunción,
German Zambrana, Lluis Cantallops, Anna Maria Tosi, Marc Forteza Parera,
Anna Galmer, Liliana Bonforte, Tobias Gottschalk, Stefan Eckert ,
Ute Grölz, Thomas Wuttke, Luca Tonella, Stéphanie Le Draoullec,
Monica Carrera.
Engineer Structure (General): Robert Brufau
Engineer (Roof): Jose Maria Velasco
Engineer (Housing): Miquel Llorens.
Installations: PGI
Ceramic manufacturer: Toni Cumella

Building Description by Adrian Welch:
Most photos of this building are taken looking down on its colourful
roof, made up of tessellations with the colours of the fruit sold
within the St Caterina Market. Seen from the street the dominant forms
are the rippling vaults of the roof edges. The vaults vary in section
along their length just as Enric Miralles designed at the Scottish
Parliament. However, rather than heavy concrete, here EMBT's touch
is light and energetic, a brilliant icon for selling the colourful
life of Barcelona.

photo © adrian welch
Santa Caterina Market redevelopment is, like many Barcelona buildings
featured, an organic piece of architecture. The interior is functional
and not trying to be cool, allowing the market traders to sell their
wares in time-honoured tradition. Seen from street level the Santa
Caterina facades are moderately playful with changing rhythms, but
overshadowed by the roof in more ways than one. The vaults are quite
fluid compared to those in Enric Miralles' Scottish Parliament building.

photos © adrian welch
But the real drama of the building is its fruitbowl roof, fantastically
colourful and playful: more buildings like this in the world and architects'
work may start to gain respect lost with the sombre Modern movement.

Enric Miralles - Santa Caterina, Barcelona: photo from EMBT
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Building close to Mercat de Santa Caterina
Barcelona Cathedral

photo © adrian welch
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photo © adrian welch
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'Works and Projects, 1975-1995'

Enric Miralles is edited by Juanjo Lahuerta + Benedetta Tagliabue Miralles
1997, Monacelli Press, 400 illustrations, 100 in color, 272pp
Enric
Miralles Book
Barcelona Buildings
Photographs:
Alex Gaultier, Nou 25, Sant Antoni de Vilamajor 08459 Tel +34 93 845 1582
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