Torre Agbar
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| Torre Agbar | |
| Designer | Jean Nouvel , Architect |
| Location | Barcelona, Spain |
| Date | 1999 to 2005 |
| Building Type | skyscraper |
| Construction System | reinforced concrete |
| Climate | warm temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Expressionist Modern |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | At 144.4 meters (466 feet in height) and 38 stories, including 4 underground levels, the third tallest building in Barcelona. |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Layetana Inmuebles S.L. |
| Area | 47,500 square meters (510,000 square feet) |
| Stories | 38 stories (4 below ground) |
| Height | 142 meters |
| Program | offices for Aguas de Barcelona (AGBAR) + 350-seat auditorium |
In the Creator's Words "This is not a tower, a skyscraper, in the American sense. It is a more an emergence, rising singularly in the center of a generally calm city. Unlike slender spires and bell towers that typically pierce the horizons of horizontal cities, this tower is a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure.
"The surface of the building evokes water: smooth and continuous, shimmering and transparent, its materials reveal themselves in nuanced shades of color and light. It is architecture of the earth without the heaviness of stone, like a distant echo of old Catalan formal obsessions carried by a mysterious wind off the Monserrat." - Jean Nouvel
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Architectural Team
- Project Managers : AJN : Jean Pierre Bouanha, b720 : Vander Lemes
- Interior fitting-out project manager: Cristiano Benzoni
- Architects : Studies : Florence Rabiet, Alexa Plasencia, Emmanuelle Lapointe, Cristina Algas, Julie Fernandez, Francisco Martinez, Pascaline Paris, Elisabeth Farres
- Building work : Francisco Martinez, Pablo Garrido, Alexa Plasencia, Cristina Algas
- Graphic Design : Hiroshi Maeda (Façades)
Consultant Team
- Consultants :
- Alain Bony (Study color frontages)
- Studies : Arnauld de Bussierre (frontages)
- Building work : Xavier Ferres (Biosca Botey) (frontages)
- Plastics technician light : Yann Kersalé
- Economist : Argos Management
- Engineers : Gepro (fluids), R. Brufau & A. Obiol (structure)
- Model : Etienne Follenfant
- Pictures : Model : Gaston Tolila
- Synthesized images : Artefactory
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- Nouvel's Torre Agbar by Katharine Logan, ArchitectureWeek No. 300, 3006.0823, pD1.1.
- Project information. Ateliers Jean Nouvel web site. http://www.jeannouvel.com. Viewed by D. Owen, 2008.0404.
