© Adrià Goula
Architect: Sergi Pons Architecte
Situation: Barcelona, Spain
Collaborators: Anna Giralt
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Adrià Goula
© Simón García
January 23th – February 18th 2012
COAC Barcelona
ESARQ-UIC board of directors: Vicenç Sarrablo [director] , Jordi Roviras, Judith Urbano, Cristina Planas.
Curator: Marta Poch
Coordination: Vicenç Sarrablo, Jordi Roviras
Exhibition Design: Manuel Arenas, Jordi Badia, Eduardo Carles-Tolrà, Jaime Fernández, Ricardo Flores, Cristina García-Ventosa, Albert Guerra, Francisco Hernández, Adrián Jurado, Miquel Lacasta, Sergio Parra, Eva Prats, Antonio Sanmartín
Graphic Design: EVA Estudi
Exhibition Display: MC Decorados, Daniel Wunsch
Illumination: Iguzzini Illuminazione España
Printing: Nova era, 47 sendes
Sponsors: COAC, Cedria, Iguzzini, Gabarró Hermanos, EPSON, Pere Ventura Caves i Vins
The exhibition
On the occasion of the ESARQ-UIC’s 15th anniversary, the school is going to show its activity in the COAC through an exhibition on the theme of Secuencias Extremas including the presentation of the book. This book describes ESARQ’s teaching style, which is based on three main pillars: personal attention, innovation and a close relationship with industry, and social commitment; that is to say, innovation at the service of people. read more »
© Filippo Poli
Architects: CAVAA Arquitectes / Jordi Calbetó, Oriol Vañó
Location: Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 390 sqm
Photographs: Filippo Poli
© David Murphy Photography
Architects: Dear Design
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: David Murphy Photography
Courtesy of Masters of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture
The Masters of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the ESARQ-UIC in Barcelona is excited to present this year’s open conference on December 12th titled, Rebuilding Japan: Lessons in architectural response, featuring talks and a roundtable discussion with Japanese architects involved in the reconstruction of Japan during its recent history of devastating earthquakes. How can architects respond in the aftermath of a natural disaster? What lessons can be learned from the last three major earthquakes in Japan? How does the context of a natural disaster affect the role of the architect and the reconstruction process? More information on the conference after the break. read more »
@ Adria Goula
Architects: H Arquitectes
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Collaborators: Montse Fornés, arquitecta (Harquitectes) Anna Bonet, interiorista (Harquitectes) Iñaki González de Mendiguchia, arquitecto técnico
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 127.40 sqm
Photographs: Adria Goula
© Adrià Goula
We featured this project while it was in progress back in June. MiAS Arquitectes recently sent us the photographs of the completed building. Check out more photographs after the break.
Architects: MiAS Arquitectes / Josep Miàs
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Area: 9,000 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
© Jose Hevia
Architect: Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos S.L.P.
Location: Carles Riba St., Barcelona, Spain
Client: Sant Gregori Fondation
Structure: Bis arquitectes
Installations: AJ Enginyers
Budget: Jordi Carbonell
Energy Certified: ADS
Road Project: STATIC
Constructor: ACME
Collaborators: Marta Velez, Gonzalo Cantos, Irene Gil, Carlos Carnicer, Gaietà Mestieri, Narcís Font, Cristian Vivas
Budget: 5,672,284 €
Project Area: 2,855 sqm schools, 1,007 sqm parking
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Jose Hevia
© Adriá Goula
Architects: Josep Ferrando + Román Ortega
Location: Mallorca 172 baixos, Barcelona, Spain
Photographs: Adriá Goula
Courtesy of LaN (Live Architecture Network)
This en-route experience, a three city touring seminar on digital fabrication, draws a diverse group of design participants from afar for a full schedule of exchanges with leading practitioners, practices, fabrication labs… all while exposed to European transit infrastructure: trains planes & even a few mountain roads.
LaN Flight EUROPE marks LaN’s fifth initiative on-the-fly and their first in EUROPE. LaN is looking to attract a geographically diverse group of students & professionals with various design backgrounds. LaN FLIGHT 2011 EU is co-piloted by LaN Monika Wittig & Co-de-iT Andrea Graziano. The cities on the tour include Innsbruck, Stuttgart and Barcelona. For more details on the event, visit their website here.
© Adrià Goula
Architects: Josep Ferrando
Location: Santa Julià, Barcelona, Spain
Structural Engineer: Begoña Cazorla
Construction Arch.: Alfonso Villarreal
Collaborators: Guillem Aloy, Ekain Olaizola, Ferran Laguna
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 500 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
© www.flickr.com / Jaume Meneses
The Bac de Roda Bridge by Santiago Calatrava marks his first foray into bridge design. Part of a larger development plan in preparation for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the bridge functions as both a symbolic and physical connection to two previously disjointed districts; Sant Marti and Sant Andreu. More information after the break. read more »
© Adrià Goula
Architects: Mateo Arquitetura / Josep Lluís Mateo
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Client: ICIC (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals)
Structural Engineering: BOMA, Agustí Obiol
Installations Engineering: Grupo JG
Project Area: 7,515 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
© mylapse
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower in Barcelona, designed by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch_EMBA and developed by Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, has been awarded the LEAF PRIZE 2011 for Best Commercial Building of the Year.
LEAF AWARDS are one of the most prestigious international yearly architecture prizes. The best practices around the world compete in the different categories of these coveted awards with their most significant projects.
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower has been chosen as the best commercial building of the year among a selected group of shortlisted international projects. Developed by Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, the tower hosts since January this year the headquarters of Telefonica Group in Catalonia and its R+D Center, a world leader in multimedia and internet research, reflecting the multinational’s focus on innovation.
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower is a 86 million Euro investment by Consorci de la Zona Franca and is a clear example of Consorci’s and Telefonica’s decided goal towards architectonic and technological excellence. The building hosts in it’s 24 floors the corporate activity of the multinational in Catalonia and has a 350 seats lecture hall . It is also the first such corporate building to be opened to the public, since it has a permanent showroom on the ground floor open to the public in which the latest advances in technology are displayed.
Courtesy of XV Studio
The Barcelona Ecological Center (BEC) is a proposal of XV Studio about the future of the Bullfight Plaza ‘Monumental’ in Barcelona, Spain. The concept is radical: Transforming the bullring into a center of research and leisure regarding to environmentally friendly activities, especially the ones that respect and take care of animals. In other words, to use all the elements that already exist now in the ring to be reused in the opposite way. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Comac
Should the Bohemian hotel be a vertical tower of 100 meter high? Or 100 meters long? Given the nature of the site, located in the gothic area, Comac proposed a horizontal design in the Plaza del Angels in front of the MACBA. Barret 001 is based on two fundamental principles: Firstly, to offer quality of life, enjoying the richness of the site by creating a public space and a sky floor over the Gothic area. The second objective is to create a shadow on the Plaza del Angels known for its burning heat. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Architects: David Oliva + Elisenda Planas
Location: El Bruc Residencial, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain
Engineering: LAVOLA, S.L.
Structure: CRAE,S.L.
Client: Ajuntament El Bruc / Diputació de Barcelona
Budget: 186.300€
Project Area: 95.75 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: David Oliva + Elisenda Planas
© SALA FERUSIC Architects
Architects: Carles Sala, from SALA FERUSIC Architects
Location: Mediona, Penedès / Barcelona / Spain
Collaboration: Josep Maria Estivill, Construction Management; Carops, Enology; Kraal, Lightning
Contractor: Josep Ferran
Project Area: 880 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of SALA FERUSIC Architects
© Raúl Candales
Architects: YLAB arquitectos
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 100 sqm (interior), 100 sqm (terrace)
Photographs: Raúl Candales
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.
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