New Barcelona architecture projects with Catalan building news and architectural photos, plus architects background. Barcelona building news from across Catalunya, North East Spain.
The website archives feature a selection of the best new Catalonian building designs around the world.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary Catalan architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works in Catalonia.
Finally, you can find a strong grouping of North East Spanish architectural posts on our site.
Nursery Les Parellades Sant Pere de Ribes: Catalonian school in Garraf comarca – design by Pich-Aguilera Architects – the area is situated in the center of Sant Pere de Ribes, with no slope topography, bordering a national road.
“We set out to re-establish Las Arenas – a late 19th century bullring – as a 21st century landmark for the city. This involved retaining the entire existing façade as well as re-integrating what had become an isolated traffic island into the city fabric.”
Richard Rogers
Parc del Centra Barcelona, Jean Nouvel Park, Spanish Landscape Architecture, Catalan Gardens Photos Parc del Centre del Poblenou : Barcelona Park by Jean Nouvel Guide to Barcelona Parks + Squares, Spain 15 Jun 2012 photo © Milos Stipcic Parc del Centre Location: Poblenou, off the Av. Diagonal, east of the city centre Date built: 2008 … Read more
The Waste Treatment Facility (CTRV, in Spanish) is located on a hillside overlooking the Coll Cardús massif in the municipality of Vacarisses, in the district of the Vallès Occidental.
A high wall of almost 6m at the back of the site is the cause that the house is organized sideways towards the only free side of the plot where there are no obstructions in sight on short distance.
The Barcelo Raval Hotel has become one of the most representative buildings of Barcelona in a few years. It is located in the heart of the city, within Raval district, one of the most modern areas of the Catalan capital.
Casa 804, Parets del Vallès, Catalunya, Espana design by H Arquitectes, perimeter courtyard, surrounds the house: modern Catalonian home photos
El Pabellón Mies van der Rohe es una de las obras más emblemáticas de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe y un referente clave de la arquitectura del siglo XX. El famoso Pabellón Alemán fue diseñado para la Exposición Internacional de Barcelona de 1929 y reconstruido en 1986 en su ubicación original.
The hotel W Barcelona, located on the new entrance of Barcelona’s Port, appears as a modern icon rising above the Mediterranean sea, and is the landmark of this new area to be developed with high-end retail, office and entertainment venues.
Casa 712, Gualba, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain design by H Arquitectes – House 712, Casa Gualba, new Catalan property
About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains. In the old town, my building sets out to express itself as pure structure—no cladding, no finishes.
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, FCC, the Spain-based infrastructure and environmental services company, has won the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2010 for its construction of the Porta Fira Hotel in Barcelona. The building was chosen from over 300 skyscrapers around the world
City of Justice, Barcelona Law Courts Complex, Spain – design by David Chipperfield Architects – photos of City of Justice Barcelona, new architecture
El Bruc Residential, Barcelona public building, Spain design by David Oliva + Elisenda Planas / www.SP25.es – Catalan architecture
Very humble building painted in an awful dull brown colour, with hi-tech insertions by Gregotti: Barcelona should have demolished this building and built a superb replacement using contemporary architects.
A new green diagonal axis is extended into the core of Barcelona thanks to the burial of the existing railways. This new public space is a means to connect the sea, the city and its natural surroundings.
The area where the house is built is located in the Valles Oriental region, in a residential state zone in the edge between the humanized landscape and the Natural Park of Montseny