BARCELONA | Torres Fira | 113m | 27 fl | 113m | 24 fl | T/O

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Originally Posted by Medit

The extension of the Fira de Barcelona in Montjuïc is planned half inside and half outside Barcelona's municipal term, at the back of the Montjuïc hill, following the Gran Via avenue straight to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Japanese starchitect Toyo Ito won the competition for the masterplan of the project. Among the new pavilions, he has designed a couple of towers (called Porta de la Gran Via), 114 m tall, one for offices and the other an hotel -with commercial spaces on the ground floors-, and a lower, huge pavilion that will provide more space for exhibitions, fairs, congresses, etc. The towers (and the whole project) are due to be finished in 2009 and are conceived as a landmark, one (a curvilinear red tower, the hotel) being the counterpart of the other (similar red, organic tower but placed inside a translucid prism, offices).

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Surroundings - Plaça Europa

[ZZ-II]

very cool designs, especially the red one!

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[novaguy]

WOW,how interesting.I look forward to seeing these in person,when I'm in Barcelona in May.

[trickykid]

neat looking buliding! I sort of like how it looks as it does now with those slits on the side for the crane. When the facade is completely enclosed it will look overly cartoonish i think. Still a great building though.

[pacman_1905]

The whole plaza has a striking contrast to the rest of the city...I like it!

[Phobos]

Those 2 towers are crazy.Very artistic

[masteryoda]

Nice design, I like the color and the organic form.

[qzzq]

Wow, I love the red tower; great design.

[Ricbit]

Nice design!

[einar79]

It looks very interesting, I like the red one... Bravo!

[Talbot]

I guess I am the only one that thinks its atrocious. I think Barcelona deserves MUCH better.

[el casanovas]

Originally Posted by Talbot

I guess I am the only one that thinks its atrocious. I think Barcelona deserves MUCH better.

key factor here is that they're not actually in Barcelona but in an industrial, working class suburb next to the city proper. I agree that the individual buildings in the cluster are nothing to write home about, in fact some are quite horrid and most of them look as if they had been built on a budget, but as a whole it's a good effort: attracting money to a city/suburb/commieblock wonderland that's very secondary despite its large population, diversifying its economy AND combining this with with social housing and other services all in the same place sounds like a good plan to me. Right now the environment is kind of edge-cityish, but once the residential buildings become occupied and the plaza itself is finished it will look much more urban.

also, L'Hospitalet must be one of the ugliest cities in Catalonia so I think Plaça Europa is good enough.

[SkaNdErBeG]

wow very unique...

[Danzig]

Un solo comentario negativo sobre los edificios y ya está el **** de turno diciendo que es un suburbio, no la propia Barcelona, no me jodas hombre...

[Avientu]

Great project, they look great every time I pass by, specially the Oyo Ito tower. And together with La Ciudad de la Justicia they'll make the coolest entrance to Barcelona

[el casanovas]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Un solo comentario negativo sobre los edificios y ya está el **** de turno diciendo que es un suburbio, no la propia Barcelona, no me jodas hombre...

The exact comment is that it wasn't "good enough for Barcelona". It isn't, but for L'H it IS good enough, considering what the area was and what the surrounding areas ARE. Fine you're proud of your city, but it DOES have shortcomings Pl. Europa addresses in part.

[Die_go]

Gorgeous, amazing the red tower

[Eric Offereins]

I am surprised how little attention these tower have got so far. They have a very distinctive design.

[Lââm]

By danzig at http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...546147&page=24

Originally Posted by Danzig