Barcelona and the Sea walking tour

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Hi walkers! We are very proud about this review left by one of the last Walkers about our BARCELONA & THE SEA  walking tour lead by Ricard… Informative, fun, fantastic experience! We originally booked the ‘Barcelona and the Market’ tour, … Read More

Chile will build a Gaudí’s Project

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Gaudí’s only Project outside of Spain. Chile may soon be home to the only Antoni Gaudí-designed building located outside of Spain. Chile has confirmed the construction of the Gaudí Cultural and Spiritual Center in the city of Rancagua, which will … Read More

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Newest Project: Walking on Water

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Floating Piers. The Project For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016 (weather permitting) – Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density … Read More

8 Architecture books to read this Summer

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For the architecture-obsessed reader, it can sometimes be tough to keep up with the publishing world. With architecture-related interests spanning from photography to philosophy, new books are released at an alarming rate and it can be difficult to spot the … Read More

Japan is building solar energy plants on abandoned golf courses

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The idea is spreading. In Japan, country club memberships famously went for millions of dollars in the late 1980s. Then, too many courses were built in 1990s and 2000s during a real estate boom. Now the nation faces the question … Read More

Barcelona Architectural Walks, Antoni Gaudi

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Hi walkers! Today we want to introduce our  BARCELONA & GAUDI walking tour. A perfect start for your Barcelona stay! Around the Modernism Route, we paint the sinuous dream that took  Antoni Gaudí from his concern into the social, to his … Read More

Creating “Super-Blocks” in Barcelona

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Barcelona is re-designing its streets. Barcelona city planners released a new plan that takes city spaces back from cars, for the people. Re-orienting the city to the human scale, Barcelona’s leaders have decided to create more space for walking and … Read More

Gaudí: neither a saint nor a lunatic, but a great architect

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While mass tourism overshadows the historic value of Gaudí’s work, we celebrate the life of the genius from Reus (Catalonia), who passed away ninety years ago. “Any profound interpretation is swept away by tourism. Visitors always get a superficial overview”. … Read More

BIG’s 2016 Serpentine Pavilion

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Serpentine Pavilion Opens Alongside 4 Summerhouses. The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by BIG, has today been unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London. The design consists of an “unzipped wall” in which a straight line of tubular fiberglass bricks at the … Read More

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