Cavero Lapuerta, Enrique
Garau Bezzina, Pere Pau
Padilla López, Alberto
Tresserras Pujol-Xicoy, Joan





Started to build tall buildings in the 90’s.
Complicated to get city hall permits.
New tall buildings being built, concentrate in
Diagonal mar zone.
Not a lot of tall buildings being built, city
dedicated to tourism.
Few population, no need for a lot of tall
buildings.
BUILDING PROJECT:




Promoter: Mapfre
Inmuebles, S.A.
Architects: Iñigo Ortiz
& Enrique León
OWNER: Mapfre
Corporation
OCCUPANT: Mapfre
offices, Caja Madrid,
Flex advertisement…
•
Built due to Olympic games on
1992
•
40 floors
•
154 meters
•
Highest helipad in Spain
•
Central core made of reinforced
concrete

26 columns per floor

Total area is 44.000 m2

Mirrors which reflect the city in
them

154 meters

44 floors

483 room luxury hotel

green colored glass


surrounded by a
perimeter structure
completely white iron
High-tech architecture
BUILDING PROJECT:

Promoter: INMOBILIARIA

Architects: AJN and b720

Structure: OBIOLS/BRUFAU

Builder:

Facilities engineering:
LAYETANA
DRAGADOS/AXIMA/EMITE
GEPRO




142m in height

50,500 m2
built area

4,349
openings
4,500 windows

25,000 m3
concrete
250,000 kg
steel
59,619 glass
sheets

Most important and
famous building in
Barcelona

Architect: Antoni Gaudí

Commenced in1882


Gothic and curvilinear
Art Nouveau forms
Less than a quarter
completed when Gaudí
died

2010 midpoint

Private donations

Final heigh 170 meters


2010 consecrated and
proclaimed a minor
basilica by Pope Benedict
XVI
In 2026 finishes the
construction