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In this first stage, the catalogue focuses on the modern and contemporary architecture designed and built between 1832 –year of construction of the first industrial chimney in Barcelona that we establish as the beginning of modernity– until today.

The project is born to make the architecture more accessible both to professionals and to the citizens through a website that is going to be updated and extended. Contemporary works of greater general interest will be incorporated, always with a necessary historical perspective, while gradually adding works from our past, with the ambitious objective of understanding a greater documented period.

The collection feeds from multiple sources, mainly from the generosity of architectural and photographic studios, as well as the large amount of excellent historical and reference editorial projects, such as architectural guides, magazines, monographs and other publications. It also takes into consideration all the reference sources from the various branches and associated entities with the COAC and other collaborating entities related to the architectural and design fields, in its maximum spectrum.

Special mention should be made of the incorporation of vast documentation from the COAC Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.

The rigour and criteria for selection of the works has been stablished by a Documental Commission, formed by the COAC’s Culture Spokesperson, the director of the COAC Historical Archive, the directors of the COAC Digital Archive, and professionals and other external experts from all the territorial sections that look after to offer a transversal view of the current and past architectural landscape around the territory.

The determination of this project is to become the largest digital collection about Catalan architecture; a key tool of exemplar information and documentation about architecture, which turns into a local and international referent, for the way to explain and show the architectural heritage of a territory.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
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2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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2019-2026 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2026 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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  • 1834

  • 1855

  • Casino del Centre

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    Casino del Centre

    1873

  • 1879

  • Casino Unió Comercial

    Josep Inglada i Estrada

    Building between partitions, renovated and extended on several occasions. It retains an interesting social lounge and an eclectic performance hall. The value of this building is that of citizen representativeness. The only interesting element on the façade is the curved balcony on the first floor, with interesting wrought iron work. It has three low arched openings and two side balconies. The Casino is located in the 19th century area that was built up after the demolition of the old medieval wall and was initially occupied by rental flats. It later became an area of leisure, commercial and social activities. The Casino Unió Comercial is an entity born from the merger, in 1918, of the old Centre or Casino de la Unió (1853) and the Industrial and Commercial League. In 1922, the balcony and the arches of the first floor were built in accordance with the refurbishment project of A. Pons i Domínguez, preserved in the municipal archive of Vilafranca.

    1882

  • 1881 - 1883

  • 1884

  • 1888

  • 1891

  • 1892

  • Zoo de Barcelona

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    Zoo de Barcelona

  • Trabal i Tauler House

    Santiago Güell i Grau

    It is a building between partitions with a rear courtyard and with façades to the square and the passage. It is a single-family house in its origins, later adapted to social uses. The property has a rectangular plan and consists of a semi-basement, a mezzanine, two floors and an attic. The roof is partly gabled and partly flat. It consists of four corridors perpendicular to the façade separated by a load-bearing wall. The main staircase has four sections and is attached to the partition. In the hall we find two lowered arches and a central column. There is a covered back gallery that forms the front facing the courtyard. The load-bearing walls are of common masonry and brick. The forge is made of wooden beams and tile surround. In the semi-basement there are lowered tile vaults. The roof is made of Arabic tiles with a structure of wooden beams and slats and tiles. The staircase is covered by Catalan vaults. The main façade is symmetrical and is composed of four vertical axes that correspond to the four corners. The ground floor has four low arched portals. The first floor has two balconies running from two openings with a lintel each, crowned with drip edges. On the second floor there are four balconies of an opening crowned with a cornice. The top of the building is composed of a cornice and flat baluster railing. The rear façade is composed according to six vertical axes with lowered arched openings on the semi-basement and mezzanine floors and with galleries with lintels on the upper floors.

    second half of the 19th century

  • Cercle Mercantil

    Francesc de Paula Sellés Vilaró

    The Mercantil building follows an eclectic style. The façade can be divided into five parts: the main entrance is located in the central, most advanced part. The name of the entity is located at the top and the year of its foundation in the centre, and a covered gallery connects both ends with the central part. The decorative elements are the sgraffito, placed on the tympanums of the two openings flanking the building, and the metallic-effect ceramic frieze. Inside, the theatre is particularly noteworthy: upon entering, we find the amphitheatre, and then the stalls surrounded on either side by galleries. The first floor has a central area with armchairs and two side areas with tiers of seats. The whole building is surrounded by a well-tended garden. The Mercantile, Industrial and Agricultural Centre was founded in 1899 as a result of a disagreement between several members of the former Casino de Recreo, some of whom were supporters of the Godó family and others of the Boyer family. The organisation's social club was built on the site of the former Tívoli theatre, and its inauguration coincided with the town's annual festival in 1899. The Mercantile Circle celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1949. It contains a theatre, a café-lounge and a ballroom. It was built according to a design by architect Francisco de B. Galtés, with the construction supervised by Francesc Sellés, decoration by Frederic Brunet and painting by Bartomeu Camps and Antoni Tomàs.

    1893 - 1899

  • Les Arenes Bullring

    August Font Carreras

    Les Arenes Bullring

    August Font i Carreras va signar els plànols del projecte de la plaça el 30 de setembre de 1899. Se li va posar el nom de “Las Arenas” fent referència a l’arena dels amfiteatres romans, que era el lloc un lluitaven els gladiadors i tenien lloc els espectacles. Es va pagar per subscripció popular d’alguns aficionats, que veien com la plaça antiga, a la Barceloneta, tenia moltes deficiències. En destaca la planta perfectament circular, lleugerament elevada respecte a la plaça d’Espanya. Queda situada entre els carrers Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Tarragona, Diputació i Llançà. Ocupa, per tant, una illa sencera de l’Eixample. L’exterior és d’obra vista d’estil mudèjar, consta de tres pisos i té una entrada principal amb un arc de ferradura. Aquestes influències orientalistes no estaven exemptes d’una forta càrrega de romanticisme. El diàmetre sencer de la plaça és de 97 metres, l’arena sola en fa 52. Hi cabien 15.600 espectadors. Els materials utilitzats van ser pedra, maons, rajoles de València, pedra artificial, cairons de pòrtland, ciment, calç, sorra, guix, ferro (fos i laminat) i fusta. Una construcció de maó vist, material de base molt tradicional en les edificacions populars i històriques catalanes. La decoració ve donada pel mateix material, que fa jocs i sanefes geomètriques. L’estructura de les grades, molt esvelta, era feta de ferro fos i bigues de ferro laminat. L’elecció de maó vermell és la convergència de tres vies d’inspiració, d’actualitat en el tombant de segle: la popular (la tradició constructiva catalana), la històrica (arquitectura pròpia de la Península) i la nacional (Antoni Gaudí i després Lluís Domènech i Montaner en comencen un ús sistemàtic ja 20 anys abans), sense deixar de banda el fet que era molt més econòmic que la pedra, i altres característiques com la resistència i la lleugeresa. A la part superior de l’entrada principal hi ha l’escut de la ciutat i el nom de la plaça: Arenas de Barcelona. L’escut que apareix és del tipus de quatre barres, com era més habitual sobretot al segle XIX. El ratpenat i la corona reial de l’escut de Barcelona apareixen en relleu dins el cupulí arabitzant. Aquesta entrada estava flanquejada per dos pavellons cúbics, avui desapareguts, que contenien les taquilles de venda d’entrades de les localitats de sol i ombra (a dreta i esquerra, respectivament).

    1899 - 1900

  • 1901

  • Casino del Masnou

    Bonaventura Bassegoda i Amigó

    Casino del Masnou

    Civil building. Its interest lies in the adaptation of a new building to the old country house, located in the centre of the complex, of which the ground floor, the access door and one of the Gothic windows on the façade are preserved. The new building covers the defense tower and reproduces the original windows. The left side of the Casino constitutes the theatre area and the right side is made up of the main entrance and the Rotunda, on the roof of which the intersections of the framework are finished with decorative elements so that they look like hanging keys. The architectural elements are absolutely heterogeneous: Gothic, neoclassical, modernist and eclectic. Theater It has a neoclassical and romantic nature. It consists of a platform with lateral tribunes on the ground floor and a roughly semicircular curved balcony supported by cast iron columns. The decorations, mouldings and ceiling panels are made of plaster. The wrought iron railings and modernist lamps are also interesting. Some pieces of this theatre are reused from some places of Barcelona. Forgings The old Mas Vell Casino gate closes the garden. The access door is in the centre and on it are the initials M.A. of its former owner, Miquel Amat. It is made of iron and consists of a set of parallel and crossed bars. There are rows with vegetal elements and sinuous lines, typical of modernism. Constructive elements that demonstrate the marked modernist trend of the Casino. They observe how both the door handle or the wrought iron of the rotunda's pergola accentuate the decorative value through sinuous, asymmetrical curves that end in squiggles or spirals. The "Casino" del Masnou was born as an entity in 1876. The idea of a new building was put into practice by Pere Grau Maristany -Count of Lavern-, located in the "Can Fontanills" country house, owned by Miquel Amat i Lluch. In 1903, the Rotunda, game rooms, billiards and other outbuildings were inaugurated. In 1904, the theatre also opened. The modernist main entrance is from 1902.

    1902 - 1904

  • 1904

  • 1899 - 1911

  • Casino de Tiana

    Ramon Maria Riudor i Capella

    Casino de Tiana

    Detached single-nave building with foyer, hall with amphitheatre and stage. The structure is made of load-bearing walls with wooden trusses and metal beams. The main façade is symmetrical and consists of three sections separated by ornamental pilasters. The axis of symmetry is emphasised by the segmental-arched entrance door, the marquee and the pointed-arched window that links with the ornamental motifs of the pediment. The roof is gabled. The interior has been renovated. The hall has plaster pilasters, capitals and false diaphragm arches. The frame of the stage is decorated with garlands, vegetal and floral elements with a large mask in the centre.

    1911

  • Berguedà Casino

    Ignasi M. Colomer i Oms, Roc Cot i Cot

    Berguedà Casino

    Building located on the corner of a steep street that includes a cinema in one wing and a café and restaurant in the other. The façade has a masonry-style stone plinth and the upper part is covered with decorative motifs in the upper areas and the sills of the openings with tiles, with some elements in brick. The roof is made of Arabic tile. It is structured on a single floor and the most characteristic element is perhaps the shape of the openings, false pointed arches made by approximating courses. Roc Cot started the project and Ignasi Colomer continued it. It dates from 1913 and different architects participated. The first project was by the master builder Francesc Joan Canal (1902), later remodelled by the architect Roc Cot i Cot and definitively finished by the architect Ignasi M. Colomer in 1913. The building was refurbished in 1940 and again in 1955 when it was converted into a cinema. The current staircase, the entrance hall which is used as an exhibition room and the remodelling of the auditorium which removed the balconies and the interior decoration are all part of these refurbishments.

    1913

  • Sant Pau d'Ordal Agricultural Centre

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    Isolated building with rectangular plan and gable roof. Inside there is a cafe and a ballroom with a stage and gallery. The façades have rectangular windows with awnings formed by straight and curved lines.

    1914

  • 1913 - 1915

  • Unió Cardonina Casino Society

    Domènec Sugrañes Gras

    Unió Cardonina Casino Society

    This is a terraced building with an elongated floor plan, comprising a basement — which houses a cinema — and a single main floor where a bar is located. The property is characterised by a façade with an undulating crowning. The construction of the social club of the “Sociedad Casino Unió Cardonina” was carried out during 1916, following the design of Domènec Sugrañes, whose project included a ballroom, theatre stage, and library. The building and the Society were inaugurated on 13 August 1916. The first performance staged there was Terra Baixa by Àngel Guimerà, performed by the company of Enric Borràs and Assumpció Casals. The building was later refurbished: the original stalls were removed and replaced by an amphitheatre with boxes on either side extending to the stage. These boxes were subsequently removed, and the amphitheatre was enlarged. (Text taken from the POUM)

    1916

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