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Tag: Jean Nouvel

Reassessing the Street-in-the-Sky in Times of Coronavirus

As Covid 19 spreads its way around the world, a fear of urban density is similarly catching on, with suburbs, … More

Alison and Peter Smithson, climate change, corrala, COVID-19, Cromwell Building, Edwin Lutyens, exterior access, housing, Jean Nouvel, Mario Fiorentini, megastructure, Michiel Brinkman, Moshe Safdie, Stanley Kubrick, urban sprawl, urbanism

Reality Check: Spain

[Text originally published in Mark Magazine #50] Revisiting architecture is always a good thing to do, especially when the work … More

architecture, Cloud 9, criticism, history, Jürgen Mayer H., Jean Nouvel, Mark Magazine, media, Peter Eisenman, politics, post-occupancy, Spain, theory

Destination: Barcelona’s Renaissance Fira Hotel

[Originally published in Azure, May 2014] The elevator soars up the Hotel Renaissance Fira Barcelona, and my knees buckle beneath … More

Azure, Barcelona, courtyard, garden, highrise, hotel, Jean Nouvel, landscape

Hotel Agbar?

Barcelona’s La Vanguardia newspaper reported three days ago that the Agbar Tower, an office building designed by Jean Nouvel and completed in … More

adaptive re-use, architecture, Barcelona, hotel, Jean Nouvel, office building, tourism

Garden and Gaffe

Leon Battista Alberti famously wrote: “The city is like some large house and the house in turn like some small … More

Barcelona, building typology, garden, highrise, hotel, Jean Nouvel, landscape, piranesi, tourism, window

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

©2014 Rafael Gomez-Moriana. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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