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

Barcelona & Urbanism Walking Tour

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Hi walkers! Today we want to share with you a critique at Tripadvisor of which we are particularly proud. This is what our walker Lily wrote after our BARCELONA & URBANISM walking tour with Miguel Angel. Urbanizing the rural, ruralizing … Read More

Jørn Utzon’s saga with the Sydney Opera house coming to the big screen.

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Utzon, The Man Behind the Opera House. https://youtu.be/D-6nldpK3HU We all know and we all love but what was behind the building of the Sydney Opera House? A new film tells us. Entitled Utzon, the man behind the Opera House, the … Read More

50 anys de l’enderroc del barri de barraques del Somorrostro

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Somorrostro: la historia de 2.400 barraques… http://mp4-medium-dwn.media.tv3.cat/9/6/1466366038069.mp4 Es compleixen 50 anys d’un fet històric que mostra la forma en què les coses es feien durant els anys del franquisme. Va ser l’èxode forçat dels habitants del Somorrostro, un barri de barraques … Read More

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