Barcelona: Modern Architecture Guide

Beth Galí, Màrius Quintana

fossar de la pedrera

N7

C. de la Mare de Déu de Port, n/n BCN4

fossar de les moreres

N8

1983-1986

A monumental commemorative space that occupies a quarry used at the end of the Civil War as a comm on grave. On the extended lawn covering this common grave there is a pergola which marks the path from the entrance space to a pool, where the mausoleum of President Companys is located.

Carme Fiol

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Jaume Artigues

Pebetero: project: Albert Viaplana Albert i David Viaplana, 2001 r e f Víctor Argentí (facades), 1995-2001

1988-1989 C. de Santa Maria, n/n BCN1 <M> L4 Jaume I

Here, on the historic site of the cemetery where the victims of the siege of the city by the Bourbons in 1714 were buried, the topogra phic manipulation of the surface of the square reworks the main orthogonals of the lateral facade of Santa Maria del Mar and that of the tiny c. de Malcuinat to form a polygonal concavity facing a wall on which a dedication is inscribed. The project seeks, through this interv ention, to provide for the everyday public use of the space and at the same time to emphasize its symbolic meaning as a memorial site.

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Barcelona: Modern Architecture Guide

Published on Apr 15, 2013

Actar Publishers

This updated and revised guide to Barcelona features an extensive selection of architecture dating from the period begins with the architectural manifestations of modernisme and noucentisme through the more innovative proposals from the Modern Movement, rationalist works, the major projects built for the Olympic Games, and the Universal Forum of Cultures, until the consolidation of Gran Via and the Diagonal, and the two major urban transformations undertaken in the city around the 22@ district and the Plaça Europa.A document that, in addition to being a conventional guide, also offers a reflection of how the city of Barcelona has changed, grown and tackled the urban planning, social and cultural challenges that it has faced from the end of the 19th century up to the start of the 21st.