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The Sagrada Familia is set to become the tallest religious building in Europe when the latest stage in its decades-long construction – the raising of six new towers – is complete.
Apartment in Barrio Gotico, Barcelona Carrer Avinyó is a piano nobile apartment in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona (Catalonia). The apartment is situated on the corner of a significant local crossroads. Like the Flatiron Building in New York, where Broadway cuts diagonally across the city grid, the apartment building has a distinctive triangular form that is echoed ...continue reading "World Interior of the Year, Carrer Avinyó, Barcelona"
Standing in the loveliest part of the Rioja Alavesa (Basque Country) the surprising silhouette rises of Bodegas Ysios, conceived as the spearhead of the Rioja appellation in the 21st century. Bodegas Ysios, conceived as a temple dedicated to wine and inaugurated in 2001, has rapidly become the pioneering "signature winery" in La Rioja, setting the ...continue reading "Contemporary Architecture: Ysios Winery in the Rioja Alavesa, Spain"
This Tower might be a distant echo of old Catalan obsessions, carried on the winds that blow in from Montserrat. Inspired by the architectural legacy left behind by Gaudí and by the hills of Montserrat, the Agbar Tower rises from the ground with the power and lightness of a geyser, touching the blue skies of ...continue reading "The Agbar Tower in Barcelona"
The Basílica La Sagrada Familia, is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. Although incomplete, the church is a Unesco World Heritage Site, and in November 2010 was consecrated and proclaimed a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI. Though construction of Sagrada Família had begun in 1882 , ...continue reading "The Basilica La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona"
Bilbao is home for one the great architectural works of Santiago Calatrava This graceful curving glass-decked footbridge, called as "Puente del Campo Volantin" or "Zubizuri", is one of the greatest designs of Santiago Calatrava. A short walk along the river from the Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry. "As in many other designs by Santiago Calatrava, an ...continue reading "Zubizuri Bridge in Bilbao by Santiago Calatrava"
