BARCELONA
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Library Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, Spain.
This is a unique district library, located in a dense urban node of the city of Barcelona, which is presented as a sculptural volume inspired by stacked blocks of books and seated on a square slightly elevated above the street and whose large gaps and voids dialogue with the environment. The access arcade extends the…
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Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
This project had three starting points: an understanding of the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants district; detailed knowing about the building’s (physical) state in order to maintain as much material as possible; and sensitivity to the collaborative process involved in the building’s recovery, launched in 2009 by neighbourhood…
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Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
This public facility houses an adult education centre, a language standarisation consortium and a space for organisations on a triangular plot in Barcelona’s Parliament district. Two of the three sides of the site are defined by the heritage-listed Anglesola Street frontage of the former Planell glass factory, built in 1913. The building makes use of the entire…
