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The Torre Glòries, [4] formerly known as Torre Agbar (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈtorə əɡˈbaɾ]), is a 38-story skyscraper located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Torre Agbar in Barcelona, Spain Edit 1 (ISS pixels removed) Reason This is a very high res vertical panoramic image of a landmark skyscraper building in Barcelona. Being a somewhat simple cropped side-on view, the wow factor may be somewhat low, but the wow for me is in the amazing detail and architecture, somewhat reminiscent of the 30 St Mary Axe building in London but also very distinct.
Torre Mapfre: 154 m (505 ft) 43 1992 Office Barcelona Ciutat Vella: 3 Torre Agbar: 144 m (472 ft) 34 2004 Office Barcelona Sant Martí: 4 Habitat Sky (Hotel Meliá Barcelona Sky) 116 m (381 ft) 31 2008 Hotel Barcelona Sant Martí: 5 Hotel Porta Fira: 113 m (371 ft) 26 2010 Hotel L'Hospitalet Granvia l'Hospitalet: 6 Torre Realia BCN: 112 m (367 ...
Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nuvɛl]; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects.
The Torre Agbar, Barcelona by Jean Nouvel Photo credit:Diliff. Archive - Nominations This page was last edited on 22 August 2018, at 17:07 (UTC). Text is ...
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The Cerdà plan, c. 1850. Plaça de les Glòries is the large square in the centre. Plaça de les Glòries, which was then well outside the city, was originally featured in the mid-19th-century Cerdà plan for Barcelona, intended as a large public square in a new city centre, but it remained sparsely developed, turning into one of Barcelona's major road and railway junctions.
Barcelona is a city historically linked to design, with longstanding institutions such as the Foment de les Arts Decoratives.For this reason, the city of Barcelona proposed, earlier in the 2000s, the creation of a single center—an integrated space that would help the public understand design in a broader context.