2023年4月1日 星期六

The Glòries area of Barcelona, "The World Begins With Every Kiss" Mural/The Kiss Of Freedom (Kiss Wall Barcelona)

4000片瓷磚

16 hours ago — Then a local ceramicist Toni Cumella printed the images onto 4,000 tiles to make up the pieces of the puzzle.
This romantically-named mural near the Catedral de Barcelona was only meant to be a temporary exhibition. It was unveiled in 2014 for the 300th anniversary of ...
This mosaic tells the story of two lips kissing celebrating Barcelona's freedom in the 18th century. The mosaic is around 6ft x 12ft and made up of hundreds of ...
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HEADS UP
The Design Hub Barcelona building houses the design museum, which opened in December.
Stefano Buonamici for The New York Times
In Barcelona, a New Draw for Design Fans
By JANE MARGOLIES
The Glòries area of the city has become a place to go to, not just through, with a number of new design shops, showrooms and now a museum.





Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glòries in 2005, before the current reconstruction
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpɫasə ðə ɫəz ˈɣɫɔɾiəs kətəˈɫanəs]), most often shortened to Glòries, is a large square in Barcelona, first designed by Ildefons Cerdà to serve as the city centre in his original urban plan(Pla Cerdà), but nowadays relegated to quite a secondary position. It is located in the Sant Martí district, bordering Eixample, at the junction of three of the city's most important thoroughfares: Avinguda Diagonal, Avinguda Meridiana and Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes. Currently it serves largely as a roundabout of elevated highways. However, beginning in the early 2000s, and as of 2007, revamping project for Glòries has started, which is aimed to give the square a new role in Barcelona and revitalize the northern districts of the city, under the name 22@. These plans supplement other large-scale plans in Sagrera and the Fòrum area. The first installment of this project was the construction of the controversial Torre Agbar skyscraper.

History[edit]

The Cerdà plan, c. 1850. Plaça de les Glòries is the large square in the centre.
Plaça de les Glòries was originally featured in the Cerdà plan for Barcelona, intended as a large public square in a new city centre, but it remained sparsely developed, turning into one of Barcelona's major road and railway junctions. Eventually the railways were closed or went underground, and around 1990 the road junction was reshaped into the current large elevated roundabout with a park at its centre, with pedestrian access beneath the roads.[1]

Current uses[edit]

Large portions of the square are occupied by parking lots and its central area is surrounded by concrete walls, part of the not very aesthetic elevated highways. The rest of the square hosts a shopping centre (the Centre Comercial Glòries), a secondary school (IES Salvador Espriu), and the Torre Agbar. The square also serves as the venue for one of the city's most renowned traditional open-air marketplaces, Els Encants Vells.

Els Encants[edit]

The new Encants market
Since 1928, Glòries has been the location of one of Europe's oldest open-air flea markets, known as els Encants Vells or Fira de Bellcaire, which is said to date back to the 14th century, and operates four days a week.[2] The market was formerly housed on an area of land at the north-western side of the square, but as part of the redevelopment of the area a new development has been built at a site at the south-western end of the square, consisting of a multi-level construction to provide covered walkways, modern facilities for the traders, and parking for customers.[3]

The project[edit]

Glòries and its immediate area is planned to become a park with a multitude of services including a public library, a major underground train station (served by RENFE and Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya), a public clinic, a sports centre as well as a museum of design. Integration with other buildings already completed in the area (Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, L'Auditori and Mercat dels Encants) is a key component of proposed redevelopment.
Furthermore, the three major thoroughfares that cross Glòries partially laid underground to make room for open green space.

Buildings and structures[edit]

Disseny Hub Barcelona, by MBM.

Completed[edit]

In progress[edit]

  • Complex de Cinemes-Plaça de les Arts, by Zaha Hadid
  • Edifici Ona, and administrative building for the city council.

Transportation[edit]



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