Torre Agbar: El Interior - Barcelona, Spain
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The Torre Agbar is a 38-storey tower in Barcelona.
Waymark Code: WMD4M6
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 11/18/2011
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The Torre Agbar is a 38-storey tower located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Spain.
It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm B720 Arquitectos and built by Grupo ACS. The Torre Agbar is located in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona and is named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barcelona water company Aigües de Barcelona.
The tower measures a total of 50,693 square metres, of which 30,000 are offices, 3,210 technical facilities, 8,132 services, including an auditorium, and 9,132 square metres for parking.
It opened in June 2005 and was officially opened by the King of Spain on 16 September 2005 and at a cost of 130 million euro.
The building is owned by the multinational group Agbar which has its corporate headquarters in the building and that takes up most of the floors, renting the remainder. The Agbar Tower was acquired in March 2010 for 165 million euro, after reaching an agreement with its former owner, the investment group Azurelau. Azurelau previously had bought the property in mid-2007. The purchase price was not disclosed.
From Wikipedia
The book is about the interiors of the tower. How it gets the light? How is the space distributed? Are there new thecnical solutions? What´s the furniture? etc...
All these questions are answered by the Interior´s architect, Gerardo Garcia Ventosa describing the solutions adopted in the tower and the concept process to get to them.
It was published by Edicions de La Universitat Politecnica de Cataluña in 2007
ISBN Number: 9788483019108
Author(s): Gerardo Garcia Ventosa
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