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Gran Hotel Hesperia designed by Richard Rogers. 105 meters It also features a convention center

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Wow, nice update:okay: Barca really is booming:happy:

Wow! That tower that is shaped somewhat like Swiss RE has awesome design and windows! :eek:
And the commieblocks of the 60s look nice :D

Originally posted by sOmeOne

Wow! That tower that is shaped somewhat like Swiss RE has awesome design and windows! :eek:
And the commieblocks of the 60s look nice :D
Thanks!
Here these block should be called fascism blocks! ;) As we had a fascist dictator from 1939 until 1975 :eek2:

Great updates! Torre Agbar has topped out huh:cool:

Originally posted by freson

Thanks!
Here these block should be called fascism blocks! ;) As we had a fascist dictator from 1939 until 1975 :eek2:
Nah, they are commieblocks no matter what you call them :yes:
And they have nothing to do with communist or facism :D
It's just mass storage for human beings, like Whoose Homepage noted :D

Originally posted by sOmeOne

Nah, they are commieblocks no matter what you call them :yes:
And they have nothing to do with communist or facism :D
It's just mass storage for human beings, like Whoose Homepage noted :D
Oh sorry!
I though you called them Commie blocks because they are in old commie countries, so here they are, the Spanish Commie Blocks!!! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

In fact, they are a version of the french one, because the construction system used in the beginning was from France.

Thanks! Great updates!

freson>
http://perso.wanadoo.es/traso/index_fotos/David_019%20copy.jpg

Torre Agbar topped out !!!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :)

Yes, that building would look like a big dildo if not the windows :D But with these windows it looks almost perfect - one of the best things I have seen in years :yes:

but did the commies really invent them? such blocks have been built as "storage for human beings" before - in america (new york city in the early 20th century). why are they not called the american blocks...why commies?

Originally posted by HD

but did the commies really invent them? such blocks have been built as "storage for human beings" before - in america (new york city in the early 20th century). why are they not called the american blocks...why commies?

Because only socialist countries use them as the main storage method. You see those things even in villages in countries like Russia, while in US they are rare.

hm, well this may be true about the US, but in other countries (including western europe and many asian countries) these "commie" blocks were used as often as in the communist countries.


anyway, great update. but torre agbar is imo horrible.

Great update! :okay:

I'm curious how the facade of Torre Agbar is going to look in reality. It's a weird building. Hotel Diagonal is also... interesting.

Barcelona is very beautiful and very important city in europe and is very normal her construction

GO BARCELONA the best

Me da a mi que Saskaton es un infiltrado de la consejeria barcelonesa de turismo para la dar a conocer a Barcelona por el foro porque chaval,no haces mas que alavarla,no es q esté mal ni por nada x el estilo pero es curioso.....

Hotel Hesperia in April

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto24.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Fotos32.jpg

:runaway:

Gas Natural

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Render3.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Render2.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Render1.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Urb_0050.jpg

Torre Agbar Close-Ups!!!!

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_14_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_02_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_17_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_20_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_23_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_26_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_28_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_31_copy.jpg

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Foto_37_copy.jpg

Does anyone have any info of the Zaha Hadid cinema project at Plaza de las Artes? When will construction start?

Damn Agbar sure is a pure masterpiece. It's going to be better than Swiss RE I think.

Torre Mare Nostrum, aka Gas NAtural by Miralles!
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona033_copy.jpg http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona034_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona036_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona038_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona032_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona029_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona002_copy.jpg
http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/v71/etsab/Barcelona042_copy.jpg

BCN is booming :eek:

@ freson : where are your pictures gone to ? :dunno:


Freson is now URBAN DAVE

si, david las fotos del principio ya no se ven :pet:

Triangle Ferroviari, Barcelona

A Frank Gerhy skyscraper for the city of Barcelona.

The new complex will be covered with stainless steel and with glass


In the zone of the future station of the Sagrera, the architect Frank O. Ghery has planned to construct an office tower of 34 floors and of 145 meters of height. The building consists of five bodies, of different heights, and with the fronts covered with stainless steel or with glass. a architecture, similar to the Museum Gugghengeim of Bilbao designed also by Ghery. Close to the singular building, there will be constructed a museum of the mobility dedicated to the transport that will have a spectacular cover of broken lines. The future equipment will occupy a surface of 7.000 square meters. Both buildings have been conceived under criteria of sustainability and, in this respect, the tower will incorporate, between other elements, solar systems and fronts of thermal utilization



http://users.domaindlx.com/Pakooooh/forum/trianglef2.JPG

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg4Jj4kPDk3OiAlPX52d2w4KSwuKSwpJyoQFQxUR1E=

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg6JjgkPj88NykmPX52d2w4IC4oKS4lJygOVkFX

amazing, this Zaha Hadid cinema project:

1) When is construction due to start?
2) When is it due to be completed?
3) Where is it located?
and
4) (the biggie) What exactly will this contain?

amazing, this Zaha Hadid cinema project:

1) When is construction due to start?
2) When is it due to be completed?
3) Where is it located?
and
4) (the biggie) What exactly will this contain?


1.- :dunno:
2.- :dunno:
3.-next to the Agbar tower Near the national theatre of Catalonia, in the Meridiana avenue
4.-Cultural activities, premieres, shows, press conferences i parties related to the world of the cinema

Thanks Aquarius, it certainly looks like an amazing structure, but I am beginning to fear that it is but a vision.

Other render:

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg4Jj4kPDk3OiAlPX52d2w4KS0iIiwpJyoQFQxUR1E=

And the location, This one is the Glories square, It will be remodelled (In dark blue color, the tower Agbar)

Down to the left side.
http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg4Jj4kPDk3OiAlPX52d2w4KSwoKSwpJyoQFQxUR1E=

This beautiful design reminds me of that odd structure in Wien, Austria
On the right , is that the roof of the new Sagrera TGV trainstation ?

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg6JjgkPj88NykmPX52d2w4IC4oKS4lJygOVkFX

Are there any plans to built 200+ buildings in BCN ?

This beautiful design reminds me of that odd structure in Wien, Austria
On the right , is that the roof of the new Sagrera TGV trainstation ?

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg6JjgkPj88NykmPX52d2w4IC4oKS4lJygOVkFX

Are there any plans to built 200+ buildings in BCN ?



No, not is the roof of the Sagrera, is a new museum dedicated to the transport:

http://users.domaindlx.com/Pakooooh/forum/trianglef1.JPG


Possibly look like this building, The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer Information and Intelligence Sciences en Massachusetts

(But with 100 more meters) :banana:

http://web.mit.edu/evolving/stata/photos/hires/002690.jpg


The station is near of this building, (This big and grey building, is the location of the new station):

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg4Jj4kPDk3OiAlPX52d2w4KSwuKywpJyoQFQxUR1E=



Are there any plans to built 200+ buildings in BCN ?


:no:

the station is very very very ulgy
I don´t like

the station is very very very ulgy
I don´t like


It not is the final project

this is the masterplan of the zone:

http://tu.auna.es/personal/8/8/aquarius/imagenes/album/estacionsagrera.JPG

Torre Agbar is realy awesome.

how will the future Sagrera trainstation be connected with the local network of metro/cercanias ?

how will the future Sagrera trainstation be connected with the local network of metro/cercanias ?


http://tu.auna.es/personal/8/8/aquarius/imagenes/album/trengranvelocidadsagrera.JPG

The lines 4 (yellow line)and 9 of metro(new line),and the rodalies lines (cercanias)

this is the new line of metro:

http://tu.auna.es/personal/8/8/aquarius/imagenes/album/Linea9-10.JPG

The future Sagrera Station will include:
*Metro stations of lines L4, L9 and L10 (Sagrera-TAV).
*A close Metro station of lines L1, L4, L5, L9 and L10 (Sagrera-Meridiana).
*A station for some suburban lines (Cercanías-Rodalies), and regional trains (Regionals).
*A station for high speed trains (AVE or TAV).
*A bus station.
:)

8 tracks for the TAV only , that is a lot of andanas :eek:
Next to the metro , are those trams ?

8 tracks for the TAV only , that is a lot of andanas :eek:
Next to the metro , are those trams ?


The reds rows are metropolitan and regional trains

from above

http://www.bcn.es/infrastructuresll/pages/AER-03-1009-18.jpg

http://www.bcn.es/infrastructuresll/pages/AER-03-1009-13.jpg

http://www.bcn.es/infrastructuresll/pages/AER-03-1009-22.jpg

@de snor: I don't know why they have desapeared! Looks like the server died! :(

From the past Sunday:
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN53.JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN60.JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN67.JPG
Much more in: Gran Hotel Hesperia (http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=102066&aid=19&sro=1&yr=2004&mt=9)

Torre Agbar
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN06%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN18%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN26%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN29%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN33%20(Medium).JPG
Torre Mare Nostrum
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN78%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN86%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN76%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN74%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN70%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN68%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN62%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN48%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN44%20(Medium).JPG
Hot pictures that I took today!

Great pics, thanks Urban Dave!!!

If you refer to the agbar tower, I would say the top floors, being bounded by glass, not concrete, wont have the fluzzy color façade. But Urban know the exact details I guess.

some maps of the Forum2004 grounds

http://www.barcelona2004.org/cat/info_practica/mapa_recinto/img/mapa02.jpg

http://www.barcelona2004.org/cat/info_practica/mapa_recinto/img/mapa05.jpg

http://www.barcelona2004.org/cat/info_practica/mapa_recinto/img/mapa03.jpg

http://www.barcelona2004.org/cat/info_practica/mapa_recinto/img/mapa04.jpg

Nice maps, de Snor! About the top of the building, I think that they have to install colour layers over the glass of the steel dome to have the blue color of the sky.
Top of the building being placed by Ocai
http://www.avclot.org/foro/Sscn4290.jpg
by Me:
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN95%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN237%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN239%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN243%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN87%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN91%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN93%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN136%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN14320(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN151%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN223%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN228%20(Medium).JPG http://www.iespana.es/d70/fotos/BCN238%20(Medium).JPG
The last pictures are from Diagonal Mar and the Forum Zone.

I hope you enjoy it!

New proposal !!

http://inicia.es/de/inesmazuela/imag/03_concursos.jpg

New terminal at El Prat airport :eek:

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8909/VistaEste.jpg

http://img90.exs.cx/img90/112/NuevaTerminal.jpg

Restructuration of the Glories intersection by Booze

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/nd10.jpg

http://www.photoways.com/partenaires/photoways/affiche_vignette.php?a=L2J3YWNnYCg4Jj4kPDk3OiAlPX52d2w4KSwsKCwpJyoQFQxUR1E=

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/nd11.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/nd02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/morpheo2/gloriascopia.jpg

Glories was the center of the city extension, planified 150 years ago:

http://www.mcrit.com/SIET/Pre_Interactivo/im_interactivo/P-CERDA.gif

Nowadays (glories is in the middle):

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/51.jpg

Here the magic triangle, where BCN inner city lays in, Glories - Forum - La Sagrera (the new high speed station BCN will have too major trai stations , the currently under restoring Sants, spanish largest, and the brand new Sagrera)

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/nd05.jpg

I would love to know more about the high-speed-train network in the BCN area.
Only Sagrera seems to be known here.
What about the line coming from the south/west ?

Is there a website about these projects ?

De snor, in the other thread I made a mistake, when I said "the magic triangle where BCN inner city lays in" I really wanted to say "where BCN inner city FUTURE lays in" as the zone is nowadays a quite standard district :) but in the future it will foresee the city's growth to come.

About the new TGV stations:

BCN has many train stations for regional and metropolitan trains, but they are fully underground.

Plaça Catalunya for instance has an inmense traffic bellow the square as there are 2 metro stations, metropolitan trains FGC , and Renfe (regional trains and metro trains). All that underground, of course.

There are two stations that were like european ones, with the tracks at street level. One of them is Estacio del Nord, nowadays restored as the main bus station and an sports arena and gym.

The other is Estació de França, a wonderfull and very stylish station, that have little or none traffic now. The station is currently used as a university building in the nearby offices (its a bit as the orsay museum, but not as magnificent) In some years the last tracks will be turned into the ciutadella park expansion, the central BCN library (really needed) and offices (all that more money to finance other things).

The biggest train station is Sants, spanish largest and dealing more traffic that any other spanish one. Sants is located in a building, but its fully underground too. The train tunnels and its 14 platforms are bellow streets level. When the TGV arrive to BCN, 2007 the latest, it will first stop at sants. The station will be increased, the bus station put underground to, the metro tunnels, restores, new parkings will be created, and the TGV will have a new space. All that is being finances trough expanding comercial space and new offices above the station as it is underground, it allows to build on it. The result will be this:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid128/pf3591c6a50c83af4b6858e0ff1f73243/f7dc14a3.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid128/p9c32b6a60bcdb53b32c6270f331c508f/f7dc14a1.jpg

http://web.newsguy.com/skyscraper/sants.jpg

http://www.lavanguardia.es/09_06_2004/bar/rb0901ainf.jpg

Restoring will begin in a just a few weeks from now.


After that the TGV line will cross the whole city underground (we have straight streets, which allow this easily) and then it will arrive to the brand new Sagrera Station, the design of which is not definitive (it will not be built until 2009 aprox.)

The TGV tunnel (the strange curve is to avoid the Sagrada Familia pillars :))

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/tunel_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/tunel_r1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/tunel_r1_c3.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/tunel_r1_c4.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/tunel_r1_c5.jpg

Sagrera station (at the upper right corner)

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/glories_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/gloriesr1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/glories_r1_c3.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/gloriesr1_c4.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/glories_r1_c5.jpg



Possible designs:

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/sec_trans.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/ren_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/ren_r1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/ren_r1_c3.jpg

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/estacio_r1_c1.gif
http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/estacio_r2_c1.gif
http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/estacio_r3_c1.gif
http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/estacio_r4_c1.gif
http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/estacio_r5_c1.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r1_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r1_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r1_c3.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r2_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r2_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r2_c3.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r3_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r3_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r3_c3.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r4_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r4_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r4_c3.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r5_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r5_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/plan_di_r5_c3.gif

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/transformacions/img/sagrera/gl_ps_fotm200.jpg
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Networks:

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/prost_x_tren_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/prost_x_tren_r1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/prost_x_tren_r1_c3.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/prost_x_tren_r1_c4.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/prost_x_tren_r1_c5.jpg

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/rodalies_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/rodalies_r1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/rodalies_r1_c3.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/rodalies_r1_c4.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/rodalies_r1_c5.jpg

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/pdi_r1_c1.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/pdi_r1_c2.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/pdi_r1_c3.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/pdi_r1_c4.jpghttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/pdi_r1_c5.jpg
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Bonus Track:

Glories intersection:

http://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/sec_glo_int_r1_c1.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/sec_glo_int_r1_c2.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/sec_glo_int_r1_c3.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/sec_glo_int_r1_c4.gifhttp://www.bcn.es/urbanisme/barcelona_progres/xarxes/img/transport/sec_glo_int_r1_c5.gif

Thanks for the update but I have a few questions:

1.
Is there already in the existing tunnel of the C60 Granollers-Mataró a tunnel for rail traffic built ?
2.
Is there an new extension planned east from Blanes => to Lloret ?
3.
On the Glories interchange there is a new train station planned.
Isn't this on the existing line from Passeig de Gracia to Estació de França ?
4.
I see there is an extension planned from Glories to the Poble Nou area along the Diagonal going further to Badalona.To "Pep Ventura" ?
5.
L5 is going further north , to be connected with L3 near "Vall d' Hebron" perhaps ?
So L3 is planned further east to "Trinitat Vella" ?
6.
About the rail extension to La Geltrú (from Sarriá - FGC ?): is it going to follow the existing lines to Vilafranca del Penedès and from there a new line ?
7.
I've read in the Spanish section about the IV Cinturo that was introduced by Sr. Maragall.From Abrera to Granollers.
Is there a plan from where exactly it shall be built?
To be connected with the interchange C16/C58 near Terrassa and then ?
8.
From Sabadell there is a new line going up north ? Is that towards Caldes Montbui ?
9.
L2 :are there 2 branches towards la Zona França planned ?

Well, lets see:

1) Not yet, the map I posted is on the basis of future extensions. Nowadays it seems quite clear than an orbital metropolitan train line has to be built someday but it has to be build by the state, or at least in a way such as the tracks have the spanish width (1680mm), different from the european one. It is not build yet and It wont be build until many years form now I wolud say.

2) If you mean highway yes, it is planned and seems rather secure, but the project is not ready, so it will take time too. If you mean train, the train exists but only with one track, so it should be doubled. Again, it is not known when they will do it.

3) In glories there are three main tunnels. One that connects estacio de França with the arago street tunel. This is almost unused and it should be transformed into metro someday. The other two tunnels connect Plaça Catalunya with Sagrera merdiana and Plaça catalunya with sagrera TGV, both exist nowadays but they have no stop at glories. The only thing to do is a new station but on the existing tunnels.

4) Yes, It is not even a project, better not pay much attention to it.

5) Yes and yes, both projects are U/C now, the L5 will arrive to Vall d'ebron very soon. The L3 will be extended but it will take a bit more, but it is U/C already.

6) No idea, it doesnt make sense to me at all. There is a project the L12, that will be built for sure from castelldefels (south) to BCN going through the baix llobregat (connecting about 500.000) but it is not sure at all how the final design will be.

7) The 4th ring (highway) is very controversial. There is ecologist's oposition. It will be built (just announced) from Abrera to Terrassa (less than 10kms) to connect two highways. The idea is to build a new orbital line that connect better the 2nd metropolitan cities. (BCN is very policentrical) The project is only build in part, connecting Mataro with Granollers, and this would not be linked to that part, but it will be able to connect better 2 highways. The project has is equivalent in a orbital train line and its a long term project, rather.

8) I would say that that is precisely the part of the train extension necessary to build the orbital line, you know, they have to build maybe only 40% of new tracks as the 60% needed is built now but used in other lines, its hard to explain. Imagine a compass and BCN is the center, then put the other stic of the compass 30km from BCN and draw a semicircle :) Then you have now that some parts of the semicircle are built and some not. The same goes for the highway project.

9) That is 100% clear. The L2 will arrive to the conjunction of the two braches of the L9, that will be the L9 and the L10. The L2 now arriving to Paralel will be unused (or at least much more unused) and the line will turn and connect the L9 and L10 much further south. It is possible that the trains of the L2 can join the L9 tracks and arrive to the airport straight form the city center without a single line change. Anyway, the L2+L9 will connect the airport and the city center quite fast and maximum with one interchange, and maybe zero interchange (that nobody knows in the catalan forum , only engineers seem to know :))


Pictures


Current L12 project:

http://www.gencat.net/ptop/actuacions/images/fotol12.gif


Future L9 stations

The two senses will be in the same tunnel:

http://www.gencat.net/ptop/L9/img/l9_viat_tunel_1g.jpg

http://www.gencat.net/ptop/L9/img/l9_viat_est_2g.jpg

There wont be driver, as in Paris meteor line and Copenhaguen's metro:

http://www.gencat.net/ptop/L9/img/l9_viat_trens_1g.jpg

This is one is supposed to allow the L2 trains joining the L9:

http://www.arquitectos-bogdanov.com/072.jpg

The L2, L9, L10, the airport and the port (they will be connected by metro, renfe, TGV and FGC)

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/09.jpg


Bonus, the current highway network:

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/auto1.jpg

http://www.mobilitat.net/basica/descarrega/barcelona.jpg

Port extension:

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/port3.jpg

Parc Biomedica

http://www.prbb.org/docs/fotos/g/025%20grande.jpg

http://www.prbb.org/docs/fotos/g/031%20grande.jpg

http://www.prbb.org/docs/fotos/g/024%20grande.jpg

http://www.prbb.org/docs/fotos/g/012%20grande.jpg

beautiful pics!!! :cheers:

very beautifull

Torre marenostrum 07/01/2005

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas1.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas2.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas3.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas4.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas5.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas6.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas7.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.es/booze/index_fotos/gas8.jpg

http://img226.exs.cx/img226/9201/foro7wa.jpg
A picture took today! The projection it's just AWESOME! :runaway:
Torre Agbar should be considered as finished building, because they are just doing interior fitout.

These are the works for the hq of SOREA, a division of Aguas de Barcelona (I suppose, at least a "deep throat" in the company told me this). We don't know anything from the project.
http://img133.exs.cx/img133/6229/dscn01296ja.jpg

Here, and by Danzig, pictures of the Hotel Hesperia.
Gran Hotel Hesperia in Hospitalet del Llobregat (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=3279280&postcount=247)

Enjooooy! :speech:

UPDATE: A huge crane has just arrived at Hotel Hesperia construction site, so soon they will lift the panoramic restaurant of the top of the building!

Hotel Hesperia
http://img201.echo.cx/img201/2716/image00362rf.jpg
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/7584/image00372sp.jpg

Mare Nostrum (designed by Enric Miralles)
http://img124.echo.cx/img124/5854/ximage00073vp.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/3893/ximage00046ap.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/9620/ximage00039dt.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/9679/ximage00028nx.jpg

http://img222.echo.cx/img222/3186/ximage00010uo.jpg

Illa de la Llum. Highest residential tower in Barcelona

http://img124.echo.cx/img124/2633/ximage00061et.jpg

http://img124.echo.cx/img124/3864/ximage00054us.jpg

Torre Mare Nostrum
http://img143.echo.cx/img143/9449/image00493fl.jpg
http://img143.echo.cx/img143/4225/image00512xw.jpg

by bitxofo:
http://tinypic.com/4q4cut
http://tinypic.com/4q4cjn

Hotel Hesperia 105 m
http://img112.echo.cx/img112/6812/image00017bc.jpg
http://img112.echo.cx/img112/2012/image00023kq.jpg
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/9753/image00146kp.jpg
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/655/image00162sz.jpg
http://img143.echo.cx/img143/8985/image00176bs.jpg
http://img143.echo.cx/img143/717/image00280jl.jpg
http://img143.echo.cx/img143/8617/image00309id.jpg
http://img98.echo.cx/img98/517/image00420kq.jpg

Hotel Habitat Sky 112 m

http://img227.echo.cx/img227/4945/image00015sq.jpg
http://img112.echo.cx/img112/6094/image00052eo.jpg
http://img227.echo.cx/img227/9787/image00073gf.jpg

Panoramic stairs installed. Picture by Danzig

http://img111.echo.cx/img111/7728/lat26ln.jpg

http://img23.echo.cx/img23/7388/lat17vr.jpg

http://img137.echo.cx/img137/8215/full3wx.jpg

http://img74.echo.cx/img74/3637/close1xb.jpg

http://img111.echo.cx/img111/2150/selva5za.jpg[/QUOTE]

Ciutat Judicial. Courts, different heights, about 70 meters the highest one.
Pictures by Danzig

http://img99.echo.cx/img99/1824/dsc005065pf.jpg

http://img99.echo.cx/img99/6123/dsc005058ze.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/1940/dsc005049ml.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/7640/dsc005030ku.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/912/dsc005026lj.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/4905/dsc005016nl.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/8789/dsc005008wo.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/1709/dsc004999uy.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/4421/dsc004989zb.jpg

http://img32.echo.cx/img32/6890/dsc004972mu.jpg

Wonderful projects are going on in Barcelona!

And much more that will come in a few years. There is a development in a city close to Barcelona (in fact, its inside the built continous), Hospitalet del Llobregat, that has aproved some 100-meter towers. And other projects that will be aproved soon, designed by Gerhy or Bofill.

what about the skyscraper/hotel in the Barceloneta ?

didnt though what bcn was booming what much. btw on saturday i´m gonna go to bcn

didnt though what bcn was booming what much. btw on saturday i´m gonna go to bcn

You will have a great time! How long are you there for, and what part of town are you staying in?

You will have a great time! How long are you there for, and what part of town are you staying in?

yea i think to... im gonna be there one week. actually its a bit out of the city in mataro :cheers:

http://bcnip.blogspot.com/
Some info about projects!

impressive

link dont work

^^ Sure? Try again, its' working for me.
I have updated it with image of Torre Mare Nostrum, nearby finished!!!

@de Snor: There are no news about the Hotel in Barceloneta, sorry :(
Starwood hotels still saying it will open in 2008, but no works still on the zone.

now it works... would be nice if i understod it :)

http://nodo018.bankhacker.com/pueblos/fotos/00003868.jpg

saw this in a catalonian tread... can someone tell me what it´s about?

is the new port of Badalona

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9572/marinabadalona1so.jpg

Badalona is a city of more than 200.000 inhabitants , close to Barcelona .. on the north coast

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/7883/sky17ib.jpg (http://bcnip.blogspot.com)

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4579/hotelbarcelone022rk.jpg (http://bcnip.blogspot.com/2006/02/habitat-sky-estado-de-las-obras-14-01.html)

Click on both images to see images of the construction status of this amazing project!

http://static.flickr.com/19/107396107_421d6cf0ac.jpg (http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/03/04/zoo-maritim/)

Aquatic Zoo

http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/03/02/habitat-sky-1-de-marzo-2006/ <<- Update for the Habitat Sky Hotel

http://static.flickr.com/40/112148531_ff53159b2a_o.jpg (http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/03/13/diagonal-197/)
Click on the image to see more about the project and the works!

Breakground ceremony for Torres de la Fira (http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/04/07/primera-piedra-para-torres-de-la-fira/)

The new in english... is a public new, dont have copyright


The towers will be the symbol of the new 'city' financial area.

In collaboration with the architect Fermín Vázquez, Toyo Ito has created two buildings with a organic and agile look. The project consists of two 110m high towers. They have been designed almost like complementary sculptures: the transparent tower has a nucleus that is the reflection of the other tower with its red facade.

The first phase of the project to be carried out is the buildng of the tower that will house offices on 23 floors. The second tower will be a 26 floor hotel with a special feature consisting of a revolving floor in the shape of a clover leaf. As the building can turn round, it will be possible to view the airport, the future plaça d'Europa and the Fira de Barcelona.

The two buildings will be joined by a large architectural structure where the new shopping centre and a carpark with more than 700 parking bays will be located. 2009 is the forecasted deadline to finish the building work


http://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres6_gran.jpghttp://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres1_gran.jpg

http://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres2_gran.jpghttp://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres4_gran.jpg



The largest Trade Fair complex in Spain and the second largest in Europe.

Ito’s project is part of Barcelona’s Trade Fair extension. With more than 350.000 square metres exhibition space, the city will house the second largest trade fair complex in Europe, after Milan.

In laying the first of the towers’ stones, Joan Clos, said that the Towers and the Fair extension will increase development in the metropolitan area. Clos also pointed out the economic impact and the urban development that the project will bring to l'Hospitalet as well as Barcelona.


http://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres5_gran.jpghttp://www.layetana.com/img/f_ren_torres3_gran.jpg

http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/08/ciutat-judicial-estado-de-las-obras-el-7-de-mayo/
Works for Ciutat Judicial, very advanced!!!!
Zaha Hadid Tower, NEW PROJECT!
http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/05/spiralling-tower-zaha-hadid/
http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/informacion-del-ayuntamiento-sobre-el-spiralling-tower/
http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/spiralling-tower-edificio-de-zaha-hadid-en-el-forum/
Parc Central, designed by Jean Nouvel:
http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/proyecto-final-y-comienzo-de-las-obras-del-nuevo-parc-central/

http://bcnip.blogsome.com/2006/05/08/sede-de-copisa-7-de-mayo/
Copisa building