This week, with the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to Barcelona. We recently featured an engaging video where Wiel Arets half jokingly said Barcelona is fantastic but boring. He continued to say as soon as Sagrada Família is finished Barcelona is done; there is nothing left to do there (10:50). Arets can say what he wants about Barcelona supposedly being boring, but our city guide doesn’t reflect this. Barcelona is filled with fantastically expressive architecture that springs from its proud Catalan culture. It was impossible to feature all our readers suggestions in the first go around, and we did not even come close to including some of the most iconic building such as Casa Milà. Thus we are looking to add to our list of 24 in the near future. Further more there are so many fabulous buildings on the drawing board or under construction, i.e. the projects in the @22 district, we’ll most likely be updating this city guide for quite awhile, regardless of Sagrada Família’s completion.
Take a look at our list with the knowledge it is far complete and add to it in the comment section below.
The Architecture City Guide: Barcelona list and corresponding map after the break.
- Torre Diagonal Zero Zero / EMBA
- Barceloneta Market / MiAS Arquitectes
- Santa Caterina Market / EMBT Associated Architects
- Biblioteca Sant Antoni / RCR Arquitectes
- Can Framis / Jordi Badias Arquitectes
- Ciutat de la Justicia de Barcelona / David Chipperfield
- Roca Barcelona Gallery / OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona)
- Pavelló de la República / Josep Lluís Sert
- Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Lluis Domènech i Montaner (Recent Renovation Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos)
- Forum Building / Herzog & de Meuron
- Museo Cosmo Caixa Barcelona / Esteve e Robert Terradas Arquitectos
- Biblioteca Jaume Fuster / Josep LLinás
- Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (PRBB)/ Brullet-Pineda Arquitectes
- Casa Batllo / Antoni Gaudí
- Fundació Joan Miró / Josep Lluís Sert
- Barcelona Pavilion / Mies van der Rohe
- Torre Agbar / Jean Nouvel
- Sagrada Família / Antoni Gaudí
- Parc Güell / Antoni Gaudí
- L’Auduitori amb els Grans D’Europa / Rafael Moneo
- Barcelona Fish / Gehry Partners
- Torre Telefonica / Santiago Calatrava
- Porta Fira Towers / Toyo Ito AA + Fermín Vázquez (b720 Arquitectos)
- Media-TIC / Enric Ruiz Geli
