Barcelona
Carles Díaz
Andrés Monzú
Fernanda Hannah
Enric Torrent and Jesús Jiménez
107 m
At the start of Barcelona’s longest and most representative avenue, a plot ending in a sharp point, like the prow of a great ship. This location demanded a building with a clear identity. The urban plan, also drafted by our studio, required a 25-story tower. However, the permitted buildability did not allow occupying the entire plot at full height. Rightly so, since, without this condition, the skyscraper would end up being a very squat tower, like almost all of those in the city.
That is why I proposed dividing the large tower into two: two very slender towers, similar yet distinct, connected only by a bridge with glass walls and flooring. The crack that opens between the towers breaks the north-facing facade of the Diagonal, interrupts the long shaded wall and casts a strip of sunlight onto the Avenida Diagonal.
Photographs by Rafael Vargas y OTB