Architecture

Escultura %22Dona i ocell%22, de Joan Miró Elena Pastor

THE SCULPTED CITY

Miró de calle

Jordi Cabré

"My dear Miró Foundation is not for sale," said Robert Lubar, professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, as he resigned from the board of trustees of the Miró Foundation in protest of the appointment of the new director (Maribel López, director of ARCO). The crux...

La exposición del Congreso Mundial de Arquitectura en les Tres Xemeneies.

Exhibitions

The Three Chimneys, from industrial past to the architecture of the future

The Tres Xemeneies of Sant Adrià de Besòs —popularly known as "the Sagrada Familia of the workers"— have been for decades one of the great symbols of the metropolitan industrial landscape. A former thermal power plant until 2011, the building shares with Gaudí's temple an imposing presence that marks the...

Una de las actividades del Congreso Mundial de Arquitectura en las Tres Xemeneies. © UIA

Architecture

Barcelona, 10,000 architects and a big question: what will the city of the future be like?

Barcelona is a city of congresses. Every year, thousands of professionals arrive in the Catalan capital to debate on medicine, technology, telecommunications or research. Many of the conversations they have during these meetings end up influencing projects, companies or advances that will see the light months —and even years— later,...