Auditoria Park Barcelona, Foreign Office Architects, Spain Landscape Photos, Design Pictures

Auditoria Park Barcelona Architecture

Barcelona Landscape design by Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London, UK

Parc dels Auditoris

Diagonal Mar – Barcelona Forum

Date built: 2004

Design: Foreign Office Architecture: Alejandro Zaera-Polo + Farshid Moussavi, Architects

Auditoria Park Barcelona, Diagonal Mar

Auditoria Park, Forum

Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make ‘man-made dunes’.

Either side of the sweeping valleys are grassy areas with huge clumps of bamboo. The tessellated discs are in two earthy colours – duller than the visuals suggested sadly.

When roughly flat they have unfortunate tarmac-like infills and when almost vertical just gaps exposing rubble and earth. Up close the Parc dels Auditoris was a let down (certainly after all the hype of the project and of the architects) for me but the overall atmosphere is quite good and no doubt brilliant for cyclists, skateboarders, etc.

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Auditoria Park images available upon request: photos 1280×1024 pixels, 72dpi

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Location: Parc dels Auditoris, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain

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