Barcelona Cathedral Building, Barri Gotic
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Historic architecture located in the city centre.
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Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudi, Architect
photograph © Adrian Welch
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Probably the most stunning piece of Spanish architecture, a wild and inventive building. Gaudi could be described as a surrealist architect and his work has some resonance with the work of Surrealist artist Salvador Dali. This iconic Barcelona building uses caricatures in stone to portray the story of Christianity but its flamboyance has made it a symbol for the city as a whole.
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Casa Batlo, Eixample
Antoni Gaudi, Architect
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
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Casa Batllo is the smaller and earlier of the Gaudi buildings on Passeig de Gracia: the facade is flatter but its roof more pronounced as organic architecture. You can enter Casa Batllo and visit the roof, like Casa Mila (also by Antoni Gaudi) expect queues at busier times of the year.
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Casa Mila Barcelona - La Pedrera
Antoni Gaudi, Architect
picture © Adrian Welch
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Casa Mila - 'The Quarry': - is a beautiful sculptural building that expresses pure tectonic delight and unlike Sagrada Familia (also by Antoni Gaudi) its architecture is simpler and less specific, therefore in many ways more sophisticated. Gaudi has taken stone and moulded it like lava, achieving pure drama.
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Park Guell Barcelona, north of the city
Antoni Gaudi, Architect
image © AW
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Classic Gaudi Architecture
A great place to relax, enjoy the coutryside and gain great views out over Barcelona. The best Gaudi architecture is at the lower, south end of Park Guell, primarily close to the southern entry. A fantastic pink house, the home of Antoni Gaudi for around 20 years is in the middle of the lower section.
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Barcelona Pavilion building, Hill of Montjuic
Mies van der Rohe, Architect
picture © Adrian Welch
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World-famous Modern Architecture
For many architects this is their favourite building - it is elegant, beautifuly proportioned and made with quality materials. The detailing is exquisite. The integration of water through two shallow pools brings calmness and reflection to the pavilion.
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Montjuic Tower, Hill of Montjuic
Santiago Calatrava, Architect
photos © AW
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This iconic Barcelona building 136m high. It is very stylised like many Calatrava buildings. The design could be read as a piece of sculpture carved from pure white marble, or as half a dough-ring speared by a bloated toothpick. This is a show-off building designed to be seen from all over Barcelona to symbolise the power of the Olympic Games coming to Catalonia.
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Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Richard Meier & Partners, Architects
photograph © Adrian Welch
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Typical Richard Meier building with rectilinear elements expressed in white metal panels and key parts in white render as organic forms in plan. The architects have created lyrical forms - the building appears successful from many angles. The architect could have engaged more with the context of Barcelona architecture as the building appears similar to ones designed for other cities.
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Barcelona Forum Building, Diagonal Mar
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
image © Adrian Welch
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Rather severe building with rough dark blue lavaesque treatment to facades spiced up with cut-outs and jerky glazed strips. These strips are striated with mirrors trying to reduce the weight of the 'floating blue cheesecake'. Below the macho cantilevers lies what on my visit appeared to be a no-man's land of patterns and blank facades.
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Santa Caterina Market, Barri Gotic
Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT
picture © Isabelle Lomholt
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This 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.
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Agbar Tower, Barcelona skyscraper
Jean Nouvel Architects
photo © AW
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This skyscraper building is 142m high, the third highest in Barcelona in 2005. Designed by French architects - a controversy emerged surrounding how similar the design was to Foster + Partner's Swiss Re tower in London.
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Nou Camp Stadium Barcelona Building
Foster + Partners, Architects
image : Foster + Partners
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Barcelona FC will cancel the €250m building redesign by British architect Norman Foster as part of a plan to reduce spending. The architects won the redesign of the 98,000-seat Camp Nou arena in 2007.
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Porta Fira Hotel
Toyo Ito & Associates / b720
photo from FCC
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Hotel Porta Fira was designed by the Japanese architecture firm Toyo Ito & Associates and the Spanish firm b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos. The 26-floor hotel tower is 113 m high and located in one of Barcelona's busiest areas. The lead architect won the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2013.
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Torre Diagonal Zero Zero
EMBA
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A contextual tower that has a double reading, from near and afar, in response to the two scales that such tall buildings must address. Taking the urban directions that form the perimeter of the plot as generators of its form, the building is a trapezoidal prism, sharp and stylized, a clean and serene form, whitish and light.
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Barcelona Architects
Barcelona Pavilion Photos
photo © AW
Antoni Gaudi buildings
Architecture in Barcelona
Key Catalan buildings, alphabetical:
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L`Auditori Concert Building
Rafael Moneo Architects
photograph © Thomas Boczko
Barcelona Concert Building
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Auditoria Park, Diagonal Mar
Foreign Office Architecture
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Parc dels Auditoris
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Bac de Roda Felipe II Bridge
Santiago Calatrava Architects
image © Thomas Boczko
Calatrava Bridge, west Barcelona
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Barcelona Airport, Prat of Llobregat
Ricardo Bofill, Architect
picture © AW
Barcelona Aeroport Buildings
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Barcelona Cathedral, Barri Gotic
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photo © AW
Barcelona Cathedral building
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Barcelona Centre of Contemp. Culture
Pinon, Viaplana, Mercade, Architects
photo © AW
CCCB Building
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Barcelona Telecommunications Tower
Foster & Partners, Architects
photograph © Thomas Boczko
Torre de Collserola Building
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CCIB Building, Diagonal Mar
Mateo Arquitectura
photo © Adrian Welch
CCIB Barcelona
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Catalonia National Art Museum, Montjuic
various architects
picture © Isabelle Lomholt
Museum Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
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City of Justice, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
David Chipperfield Architects
photograph : Christian Richters
City of Justice Barcelona Buildings
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Corte Inglese Barcelona Department Store
Lapeña y Torres Arquitectos
image © AW
Almacén El Corte Inglese, Ciutat Vella
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Frank Gehry Building, Port Olimpic
Frank Gehry, Architect
photo © Adrian Welch
Pesque Escultura - Fish Sculpture
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Free Zone Consortium Office Building
Josep Lluís Mateo, Architect
photo © Adrian Welch
Free Zone Consortium Office
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Gas Natural Company Tower
Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT
photo © AW
Torre de Gas Natural Building
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IMO Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular
Josep Llinàs Carmona architect
photograph : Julio Cunhill
Ocular Microsurgery Institute
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La Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc
Josep Lluís Sert, Architect
photo © AW
Joan Miro Foundation Buildings
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Media-ICT
Cloud 9 - World Building of the Year 2011
photograph from architect
Media-ICT Barcelona
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Montaner i Simon Publishing House
Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Architect
image © Isabelle Lomholt
Editorial Montaner i Simón
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Nou Camp Stadium - FC Barcelona
Miró, Mauri; Barbón, Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Camp Nou Estadi Building
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Nou Camp Stadium Barcelona Project
Foster + Partners, Architects
image : Foster + Partners
Camp Nou Stadium Barcelona
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Olympic Stadium Barcelona, Montjuic
Domenech; Vittorio Gregotti Architect
photograph © Isabelle Lomholt
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys |
St Jordi Sports Pavilion, Hill of Montjuic
Arata Isozaki & Associates, Architects
picture © Isabelle Lomholt
Palau Sant Jordi Building |
