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Building Culture… in Barcelona

PHOTO ESSAY / Spain

25 March, 2018

Photography: Anna Izquierdo

 

Architecture, Photography, Barcelona, Spain, 

Barcelona-native Anna Izquierdo documents four very different buildings that showcase Barcelona’s worldwide reputation for its Catalan architecture and community-focused public spaces. Located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, Barcelona sees city life infused with a coastal way of living, as families gather at Parc de l‘Espanya Industrial, people meet at beach-side Bar Necora, and communities develop in the Singuerlín apartment blocks and nearby Walden 7. Within each of these spaces, people grow, relationships form and stories are created. With good design flourishing, communities bloom.

Parc de l’Espanya Industrial

Located near Plaça d’Espanya, this public space came to life in 1985 thanks to Basque architect Luis Peña Ganchegui. Referencing its heritage by naming the site after the textile mill that originally occupied the site, Parc de l’Espanya Industrial acts as community gathering space, where Modern sculptures and two feature lighthouses surround an artificial lake.

Carrer de Muntadas, 37, 08014 Barcelona, Spain

Walden 7

Just west of Barcelona, in Sant Just Desvern, lies Walden 7, an apartment building designed by Ricardo Bofill and made famous by its utopian vision and striking form. Built on the ruins of an ancient cement factory in 1974, this fourteen-story block contains 446 residencies, of which almost all have a view of one of the five exterior or interior courtyards. With quality of living at the forefront of Bofill’s vision, Walden 7 features well-designed apartments amidst public courtyards and swimming pools—gathering places where the poets and artists who originally occupied the apartments would have conjured up their creative collaborations. Nowadays, the residents are a little more diverse (albeit a many a architects), but nonetheless, community is still at the centre of the building whose namesake—B.F. Skinner’s science-fiction novel, Walden Two—depicts a utopian community.

Ctra. Reial, 106, 08960 Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, Spain

Maresme

Hidden away along Barcelona’s Catalan Mediterranean coast, lies Maresme, a beach town where Modernist architecture overlooks sandy beaches and fishing villages. Necora d’Or, a chiringuito (Spanish beachside bar), comes to life in summer as a place for friends and families to gather over authentic Spanish food and drink. This Modernist building, which is representative of many of Spain’s coastal bars, offers a welcoming doorway to a communal atmosphere that overlooks a painterly view of sand and water that stretches a vast thirty-seven kilometres.

Passeig Maritim, 08320 El Masnou, Barcelona, Spain

Singuerlín

The warm hues of these tall towers pop against the greenery of the hill they sit on. Dropped into the middle of Singuerlín—a neighbourhood within Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona—they stand tall against the plethora of small apartments and homes within this working-class suburb, catching the eyes of locals who drive out of Barcelona along the C-38. While this post-war mass housing may not host the progressive communal spaces of Walden 7, they indeed house a diverse community, and each day, like every other flat in Barcelona, stories are made.

Singuerlín, 08924 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

This photo essay is part of Lindsay’s ongoing ‘Building Culture’ series, documenting the relationship between architecture, place and culture in different parts of the world.

Notes

Anna Izquierdo is a Barcelona-based photographer and visual artist whose work concerns everyday experiences and urban spaces based on anecdotal and self-experience. She’s about to self-publish an anthology of fragments of everyday life, evoking creativity, humour and boredom in the most banal places.

anna-izquierdo.com / I: @annaizq

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