Meier, Moneo, Miralles/Tagliabue, Siza, Gehry, Foster, Isozaki, Calatrava, Perrault, Venturi/Scott Brown, Mies and Gaudi...
From Barcelona and Badalona to Madrid, Toulouse, Hamburg and Copenhagen...

Monday the 17th, we drive the car onto the train in Narbonne and drive it off in Hamburg 24 hours later....

With the best Spanish/French picnic basket you can imagine and the knowledge of having done everything we planned, plus more, we are going to eat , drink and be merry for 24 hours!

After a Christmas rest we will start working on all the great features we have collected on the trip.

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Richard Meier
Museum of Contemporary Art (1995)
Barcelona, Spain

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Rafael Moneo
Auditorium and Music Center (2001)
Barcelona, Spain

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Miralles/Tagliabue
Park in Mollet (2000)
Barcelona, Spain

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Miralles/Tagliabue
Park on Avenue d’Icaria (1996)
Barcelona, Spain

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Miralles/Tagliabue
Diagonal Mar Park (in construction)
Barcelona, Spain

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Alvaro Siza
Meteorology Centre Barcelona (1992)
Barcelona, Spain

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Frank Gehry
Fish (1992)
Barcelona, Spain

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Santiago Calatrava
Bach de Roda-Felipe II Bridge (1987)
Barcelona, Spain

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Norman Foster
Telecommunications Tower (1992)
Barcelona, Spain

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Arata Isozaki
Sant Jordi Palace (1991)
Barcelona, Spain

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Dominique Perrault
Torrent de la Batllòria (December 2001)
Sports Complex
Badalona, Spain

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Rafael Moneo
Atocha Railway Station (1992)
Madrid, Spain

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Rafael Moneo
Bankinter Headquarters (1973)
Madrid, Spain

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Rafael Moneo
Prado Museum extension model
Madrid, Spain

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Enric Miralles (1992)
Cultural Center
Madrid, Spain

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Venturi, Scott Brown
Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne (1999)
Toulouse, France

P.S. And Mies and Gaudi in Barcelona..

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Mies van der Rohe
German Pavilion (1929)

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Antonio Gaudi
La Pedrera

In Barcelona we stayed in the heart of the Quadrat d’Or, an area famed for modernisme; Catalonia’s exuberant brand of Art Nouveau. The Hotel Condes de Barcelona, in two magnificent former palaces; Casa J. Daurella (1872) and Casa E. Batlló (1895), is situated on a corner facing Gaudi’s La Pedrera

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Hotel Condes de Barcelona

We loved it... what a great place to end a great trip..
More about the hotel in our new arcspace Travel Section starting in January.

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Travel Log

December 10
Siza, Souto de Moura, Moneo, Calatrava and Barragan.....
From Santiago de Compostela to Porto, Murcia, Alicante and Valencia......

December 3
Corbusier, Moneo, Calatrava, Foster, Gehry, Soriano/Palacios, Pelli, Legorreta, Stern and Isozaki...
From Pessac through San Sebastian and Bilbao to Coruña....

November 26
Gehry, Botta, Corbusier, Nouvel, Calatrava, Piano, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Hollein.....
Basel through Lyon, to Clermont Ferrand and Sarlat.....

November 19
Siza, Grimshaw, Hadid, Meier, Ando, Botta, Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Piano, Buckminster Fuller and Melchior Berri....
Weil am Rhein and Basel.....

December 17, 2001