Ciutat Vella
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Santa Maria del Mar
Made by sabreur76
(Explore on 30 Nov 07 at #217) The first documentary reference to Santa Maria del Mar is in a text from the year 998. The construction of the present building was promoted by the canon Bernat Llull, who was appointed archdean of Santa Maria in 1324. Construction work started on 25 March 1329, when the foundation stone was laid by king Alfons the Magnanimous, as commemorated by a tablet in Latin and Catalan on the façade that gives onto the Fossar de les Moreres. This basilica is the work of the architects Berenguer de Montagut and Ramon Despuig. The first stone was laid to commemorate the conquest of Sardinia, which completed the Catalan domination in the Mediterranean initiated ten years earlier with the conquest of Mallorca, and which reached its fullest extent with the entry of Sicily and Greece into the domains of the House of Barcelona. The walls, the side chapels and the façades were finished by 1350. In 1379 there was a fire that damaged important parts of the works. On the 3rd of November 1383 the last stone was added and on 15th of August 1384 the first mass was celebrated. On the 19th of July 1936 angry mobs set fire to the basilica which burned for eleven days straight, destroying the Baroque Altar, all the images, the organ, and a large part of the archives. Only the walls and columns were left standing. Externally, it is the only perfectly-finished Catalan Gothic church. Its outer walls display the features which differentiate Catalan Gothic from European. In the Catalan style, there is a predominance of horizontal lines, of solid panels over empty spaces, of flat terraces without roofs, and a preference for large bare surfaces. The buttresses are flying buttresses as in the European Gothic cathedrals, and the towers are octagonal and flat-topped.
Torre Marenostrum - 3/4
Made by . SantiMB .
C. del Dr. Aiguader, Barcelona (Spain). Artizen HDR from single JPEG with Fattal tone mapping. ENGLISH This building is designed by the prestigious architect from Barcelona Enric Miralles and by Benedetta Tagliabue, who won the call for ideas for the Gas Natural Group's new head office. The proposal by the EMBT studio is characterised by a spectacular 20-storey glass tower which, given its sinuous, modern architecture has already become a landmark on the skyline of Barcelona. A horizontal building projects out of the tower between the 5th and 10th storeys, lending the building a strong personality and which from an architectural point of view enables the skyscraper to integrate into the entire complex and the surrounding city. ------------------------- CASTELLANO Este edificio está diseñado por el prestigioso arquitecto barcelonés Enric Miralles y por Benedetta Tagliabue, quienes ganaron el concurso de ideas para su nueva sede que convocó el Grupo Gas Natural. La propuesta del estudio EMBT se caracteriza por una torre acristalada de 20 plantas y 86 m. de altura, de gran espectacularidad que, tanto por su ubicación como por su concepción de sinuosa y moderna arquitectura, se ha convertido ya en un claro referente del skyline barcelonés. De la parte media de la torre parte un edificio horizontal en voladizo, concretamente entre las plantas 5 y 10, un elemento que aporta mucha personalidad al edificio y que desde el punto de vista arquitectónico permite la integración del rascacielos en todo el complejo y en definitiva en el entorno de la ciudad.
MACBA (I) - black | white | blue
Made by marcelgermain
Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona. (See my set.) The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) is situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona. It was designed by Richard Meier & Partners (1987-1995). This large (120 by 35 meters) white building has much of its southern elevation glazed, providing the visitor with views across the plaza, and allowing natural light into the interior. The museum opened to the public on 28 November 1995. All the art dates back from the late 20th century onward. There are three periods of modern art represented: the first one covers the forties to the sixties; the second spans the sixties and seventies; the third period is contemporary. The collections focus on post-1945 Catalan and Spanish art. (Adapted from: Wikipedia) Explore #402 (November 22, 2007). My 10th Explore! Thanks! =)
BCN Tetris
Made by Steven2358
The (not overly famous yet) Tetris Building in Barcelona. I'd prefer an office in the left tower. (6 pictures stitched together) [update] Officially, this is the new Gas Natural headquarters in Barcelona, designed by architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue.
Macba Rainbow
Made by juli_modul
Els colors han arrivat al MACBA Colour has arrived to MACBA ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_d'Art_Contemporani_de_Barce...
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