Plaza Lesseps Barcelona urban renewal

Plaza Lesseps Barcelona urban renewal

Plaza Lesseps is an example of integration of transportation and civic public space. Two opposing urban layers are superpositioned, interacting with each other, reflecting complexity of the city.

Zona de Banys Barcelona Forum Bathing Zone

Zona de Banys Barcelona Forum Bathing Zone

A series of pontoons reach into a thin stretch of water protected from the Mediterranean by a riot of huge concrete blocks, with a skeletal spine marking a boundary with the Auditoria Park just inland.

Auditoria Park Barcelona, Diagonal Mar

Auditoria Park Barcelona, Diagonal Mar

Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make ‘man-made dunes’.

Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Sculptural concrete with simple plane of photovoltaics floating off four fair-faced concrete supports. The Pérgola fotovoltaica na esplanada Fórum also contains at the lower level a series of timber stuctures that were closed when I visited.

Casa de Convalescencia Barcelona convalescent home

Casa de Convalescencia Barcelona

Carrer del Carme (official Catalan name; Spanish: Calle del Carmen) is a street in central Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, located in the Raval neighbourhood of the Ciutat Vella district. It is part of the recently revamped commercial area of Raval.

Placa St Jaume Barcelona square

Placa St Jaume Barcelona square

The Square takes its modern name from the church of Church of Sant Jaume, which had been located at the site of the square since medieval times. Formerly, the city council of Barcelona met in the porch at the front of that church, until it bought a number of nearby homes that would house the future headquarters of the institution on the neighboring street.