Descubriendo Barcelona a través de los chaflanes del Eixample

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Calles anchas y esquinas octogonales son símbolos del innovador plan Cerdà. El Eixample barcelonés quizás sea la zona más conocida y frecuentada de Barcelona, es un conjunto arquitectónico único que se modeló con la reforma urbanística del plan Cerdà a … Read More

Medellin wins World City Prize

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Medellin the winner of the biennial Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize. https://vimeo.com/158880335 Medellin, Colombia has beaten off 38 other cities to be named as the winner of the biennial Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, which is awarded by the Singapore government. Although the city’s … Read More

Le Corbusier works named as UN world heritage sites

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See the 17 Le Corbusier Projects. The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (commonly referred to as UNESCO) has named 17 projects in 7 countries by revolutionary Modernist architect Le Corbusier to their list of World Heritage Sites. Given to places … Read More

R_Urban Hubs: Questioning the Limits of Barcelona in the 21st Century

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Students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture present their projects in the MUHBA Oliva Artès The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture opens, for the fifth consecutive year, its end-of-degree project exhibition. The exhibition is to showcase the 30 projects … Read More

Meet our Leading Walkers

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Hi walkers! Today we want to share with you some more personal details about our guides. All of them have something special to tell us, so we consider important to share with you, Walkers! Let’s begin with Joan Vitòria. Here … Read More

Barcelona tram ride

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Barcelona is being formed, the city beats seething! Imagine that we are in 1908 and are taking a tram from Paseo de Gracia to Plaza Lesseps and Sant Gervasi district… Barcelona is being formed, the city beats seething! Let’s buy your … Read More

Olympic exclusion zone: the gentrification of a Rio favela

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Residents of Babilônia complain they are being callously pushed out as the favela undergoes a rapid ‘upgrade’ ahead of this summer’s Olympics. Jo Griffin, who has been working there, hears the inside story of Rio’s gentrification project. “Look at that … Read More

CERDÀ Y LA CIUDAD SIN CENTRO

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LA ENCICLOPEDIA COMO LUGAR SIN CENTRO. PAXTON Y LA ARQUITECTURA SIN CENTRO. CERDÀ Y LA CIUDAD SIN CENTRO Suscitaremos pocas dudas si afirmamos que la organización de un diccionario enciclopédico, en su esencia más fundamental, prescinde de un punto único de … Read More

CIUTATS OLÍMPIQUES: RIO I BARCELONA

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TRANSFORMACIONS URBANES I LLEGAT En el marc del Congrés d’Arquitectura 2016, i amb el suport del Consolat de Brasil, avui 7 de juliol tindrà lloc al Pavelló Mies van der Rohe una taula rodona sobre les ciutats olímpiques de Rio … Read More

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