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Tag: leisure

La globalización de los mercados municipales

[publicado originalmente en BCN MÉS #63] Cualquiera que haya pisado uno de los recién remodelados mercados municipales en barcelona se … More

Barcelona, BCN MÉS, globalization, infrastructure, leisure, market, tourism

Loop the Loop

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #69] Solo Houses is the name of a project that’s intended to include more than … More

countryside, development, leisure, loop building, Mark Magazine, Office KGDVS, Solo Houses, Solo Office, tourism, wilderness

Groupies

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #51] We’ve all heard of ‘selfies’. What about ‘groupies’? During the opening of the 14th … More

advertising, architects, architecture, gossip, leisure, Mark Magazine, media, people, photography, Venice Biennale

Welcome to the Hotel Barcelona

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Barcelona is in the tail-end of a hotel construction boom. And Barcelona being “Barceloooooonaaaaaa” means, … More

Barcelona, branding, highrise, hotel, leisure, popular culture, total design, tourism

Benidorm: The Pursuit of Pleasure by the Most Efficient Available Means

Benidorm is a city in southeastern Spain with an urban morphology that is highly unusual for Europe: it is a … More

Benidorm, coast, cultural identity, highrise, leisure, Onsite Review, popular culture, pragmatism, strategy, theory, tourism, urbanism

Go With the Flow

The World Waterpark at West Edmonton Mall is a vast steel and glass-vaulted tropical microclimate in the middle of that … More

chaos, complexity, leisure, Malls, prefab, suburbia, The Canadian Architect Magazine, theming, water, West Edmonton Mall

Under Water

[Originally published in Canadian Architect March 1999] The swimming pool is an icon of modernism, a veritable symbol of the health and … More

leisure, spectacle, sport, swimming pool, The Canadian Architect Magazine, Vancouver

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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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