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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

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2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

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Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

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ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Arxiu Mas

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

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EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

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  • Santa Caterina Market

    Josep Buxareu i Gallart, Josep Mas i Vila

    Santa Caterina Market

    The Santa Caterina market’s site is the result of the superimposition of numerous historical strata dating from the Bronze Age, with a necropolis of which there are still some remains. The first market was built in the 19th century on the ruins of a monastic structure, and the last intervention aims to mend the structural and organisational deficits of the old market. The project is based on the overlap between the old and the new, from a conception of action that seeks to establish a continuity with this series of historical overlaps. The number of stops is reduced and power lines are created inside, creating new connections between the surrounding streets. The new roof overlaps the old perimeter factory and recovers its image from neighbouring houses, while being based on a structural principle of stable fragility.

    1844 - 1848

  • Born Market

    Josep Maria Cornet i Mas, Josep Fontserè i Mestre

    Born Market

    El Born Market is a key part of the urbanisation plan that gave rise to Ciutadella Park when it was demolished in the mid-19th century. A series of long and narrow islands are arranged parallel to the direction of the park and deliver it against the Ribera district. The heart of the intervention is a public square flanked by Mercat del Born (Barcelona's wholesale market). The original market was conceived as a covered square with a very light roof, the work of Josep Maria Cornet i Mas. This roof has the shape of a cross inscribed on the perimeter of the market, formed by asymmetrical gabled arms with skylights on the ridge, raised in relation to other groups of identical roofs. There is an octagonal dome with a lantern in the cross. The enclosures of the market are opaque up to half height and remain covered (as are the jumps between roofs) by a metal blind, almost a mesh, which introduces a nuanced, almost religious light. The market was abandoned in 1971 and survives abandoned during the Olympic Games. When, finally, it was intended to house the Provincial Library of Barcelona, its architects, Enric Sòria and Rafael de Cáceres, found the remains of the old neighbourhood of La Ribera in an optimal state of conservation. Currently, the building is still under construction to house part of the Museum of the History of the City which will deal with the preservation of these ruins under the structure of the archaeologically restored market. The new intervention has perimeter platforms that will allow a view of the ruins while keeping the space of the roundabout intact. The museum programme will be housed in cubicles arranged in the square. The entire intervention will be public and will restore the character of a square that Mediterranean markets have.

    1873 - 1876

  • Sant Antoni Market

    Josep Maria Cornet i Mas, Antoni Rovira i Trias

    The Sant Antoni market is located outside the gate of the wall that bore its name, on a spontaneous market that exists outside the walls and adjacent to what used to be the Madrid road (now Mistral Avenue). Rovira i Trias, who lost the competition for the Eixample district in Barcelona, takes over Ildefons Cerdà’s winning proposal by arranging, in the middle of the whole square that the market occupies, a dome in the form of a covered square, designed in collaboration with Josep M. Cornet i Mas and with analogous dimensions to those of a junction of the Eixample. Four symmetrical pavilions face the chamfers, as arranging them turned ninety degrees from the direction of the streets (i.e., diagonally) allows them to reach the maximum inscribable length on a square. The perimeter of the square is closed and the spaces between the fence and the façades of the market are treated as yards for unloading goods. Leaning on this perimeter fence, a perimeter canopy is set up where a well-known foreign market takes place. There you can find everything on Sunday mornings, and it is a sight to behold and a place to take in the city. The refurbishment has two underground floors under the archeologically restored market, with the refurbished stalls. Excavations for the site have uncovered remains of the bastion of the wall, which have been incorporated into the project. It demolishes the perimeter fence, preserving the canopy to open the old courtyards of goods and turn them into public squares. One of these depresses an entire floor to allow access to the remains of the bastion and becomes an access to a new commercial plinth. The refurbishment will show the whole of the perfectly restored old market and will value its side façades, which were initially closed, a service architecture that has been dignified over the years. The new architecture will strengthen the civic character and, at the same time, enhance the historical memory of the place.

    1872 - 1882

  • La Barceloneta Market

    Antoni Rovira i Trias

    The market refurbishment is motivated by its outdated nature from a programmatic point of view. The new market incorporates a hospitality school, office space and some restaurants, in addition to two parking floors and the arrangement of two new spaces on the two main façades. The refurbishment chooses to place the new pieces of the program suspended from the roof, forming a series of variable sections and using the same profiles of the old structure. Thus, the life of the old market can continue regardless of the new additions. The accesses from both squares are also modified, in order to favour the recreational activities that take place there. The result of the intervention are bodies added to the periphery of the old structure, which allow a new image to be generated and reflect its added character to a space and activities that continue to exist as before.

    1884

  • Mercat de Tortosa

    Joan Abril i Guanyabens

    Mercat de Tortosa

    Sota la seva aparent elementalitat (nau única coberta amb teulada a doble vessant) s'amaga una obra d'execució atrevida i brillant, doncs s'ha de tenir en compte que s'assenta en terrenys guanyats al riu. En aquest sentit s'ha de destacar l'enginy de l'estructura que suporta la coberta, dissenyada per Joan Torras i Guardiola. També conegut com " l'Eiffel català ", Torras disposa 14 encavallades de ferro laminat i perfil parabòlic, que no provoquen empentes laterals. D'aquesta manera s'aconsegueix salvar una llum de 27 m mantenint l'espai interior diàfan. Tradicionalment s'ha atribuït l'autoria del Mercat a Joan Abril.

    1884 - 1887

  • 1887 - 1888

  • 1888

  • 1889

  • Mercat Municipal de Sitges

    Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà

    Mercat Municipal de Sitges

    Edifici situat al nucli més antic de Sitges, al costat de la Casa de la Vila. Es tracta d'una construcció d'una sola nau amb coberta a dues vessants. La façana de maó vist , és de composició simètrica i presenta com a element més remarcable la marquesina de ferro de l'entrada. En el seu origen , el mercat era aïllat; posteriorment es va afegir un nou cos que el va unir amb altres edificacions. L'edifici del mercat de Sitges, primera construcció en ferro de la vila. Va ser projectat i L'edifici del mercat de Sitges, primera construcció en ferro de la vila. Va ser projectat i dirigit per l'arquitecte municipal Gaietà Buigas i Monravà , i es la primera obra sitgeriana L'edifici del mercat de Sitges, primera construcció en ferro de la vila. Va ser projectat i d'aquest arquitecte. Els plànols daten de l'any 1889. La subhasta de les obres fou adjudicada a Pere Ferran per 24.700 ptas. La inauguració oficial del mercat és va fer el 15 d'agost del 1890. De l'any 1891 es conserven encara els dibuixos originals de la marquesina de ferro colat de l'entrada, realitzats també per Gaietà Buïgas. L'any 1935 s'hi van fer obres d'engrandiment

    1889 - 1890

  • Mercat El Rengle

    Josep Puig i Cadafalch

    Mercat El Rengle

    Edifici civil. Construcció exempta de planta rectangular longitudinal, coberta per una teulada plana, al centre de la qual s'aixeca una volta de canó que ocupa tota la seva llargària. Consta d'un passadís central i una filera de parades de venda a cada costat; per la banda exterior també hi ha parades. Les parades estan separades per unes columnetes de ferro colat que suporten la teulada. El conjunt destaca especialment per la seva volta que també serveix de ventilació una vegada tancades les parades. Les façanes testeres i el sòcol de l'edifici estan revestits de marbre, i l'interior de l'edifici està decorat amb ceràmica vidrada amb rajoles que formen franges de colors que li donen vistositat. El mercat fou dissenyat per l'arquitecte mataroní Emili Cabanyes i va entrar en funcionament el 5 de juny de 1892. Un any més tard Josep Puig i Cadafalch va projectar i executar la reforma de la coberta, que li va conferir l'aspecte que conserva actual. El 1979 fou restaurat pels arquitectes Isidre Molsosa i Montserrat Torres. És un edifici molt característic de Mataró, que rep el nom popular de "el Tren" a causa de la seva forma allargada. Pel mateix motiu se'l coneix també popularment com "el Rengle" o "el tramvia".

    1892

  • 1893

  • Meat Market

    autoria desconeguda

    The Meat Market is located in Plaça de l'Oli, in the corner with Plaça de la Vall del Castell. It is a public building between partitions consisting of a ground floor under an Arabic tile roof. The windows are lowered arches and the entrance portals are semi-circular arches. The composition is symmetrical, the language used in the work is eclectic and the material used is exposed brick. The market was built in 1882 on the site where the Old Theatre (built in 1817, with a capacity for around six hundred people) had been demolished in 1873. This Municipal Theatre occupied part of Plaça de l'Oli, and when the market was built, this space was recovered.

    second half of the 19th century

  • Chicken and Giblets Market

    Santiago Güell i Grau

    Public building with a single nave and between partitions. It is on the corner with Muralla dels Vellets Street. It has an Arabic tile roof which is a pavilion with a lantern. There are two accesses to the chamfers, with steps. The walls are ordered by horizontal and vertical bands of exposed brick, a material also used in the door and windowsills. The project for the Chicken and Giblets Market, carried out by the architect Santiago Güell, was presented on September 25, 1911. In 1912, the auction for the building was held and in December 1913 it was officially inaugurated. It houses the Archive and the House-Museum of the Festa Major de Vilafranca.

    1911

  • 1912

  • 1898 - 1913

  • 1913

  • 1914

  • Tarragona Central Market

    Josep Maria Pujol de Barberà

    Tarragona Central Market

    El mercat central de Tarragona va ser construït originalment en una zona despoblada de l’eixample. Té una superfície de 2.400 metres quadrats i ocupa una sola planta. La nau central està coberta per una gran volta de fibrociment. Les cantonades i els centres de les façanes queden ressaltats per unes grans obertures que permeten l’entrada de llum natural a través d’unes grans persianes. L’estructura, que queda vista a l’interior, és de columnes de forja i cintres metàl·liques. Pujol de Barberà concep l’edifici aplicant-hi la inventiva pròpia dels nous corrents modernistes, si bé amb la contenció historicista pròpia de la seva condició de restaurador.

    1911 - 1915

  • 1925

  • 1926

  • Mercat d'Arenys

    Ignasi Mas Morell

    Mercat d'Arenys

    Gran construcció de maó vist i pedra, amb escalinata i porxo d'entrada en corba. Coberta amb cavalls de ferro vistos. Interior d'una sola nau dividida en tres carrers -tants com portes d'entrada- per a facilitar la compartimentació de les parades. Al centre, on el carrer de les Margarides travessaria el local, es disposen, en una rotonda, les parades del peix. Finestrals, d'il·luminació, laterals. Gran finestral central a la façana a nivell del pis, sobre el porxo. Ornamentació amb rajoletes i motllures als elements de pedra situats al sòcol, a l'arrencada dels arcs d'entrada i als pinacles. Obra postmodernista Està situat en un lloc cèntric de la Riera, a prop de la plaça de l'església, destaca del conjunt per la seva magnitud i pel buit del porxo, tot i seguir la mateixa alineació de façana de les cases veïnes. Aquest darrers anys s'hi instal·là l'emissora municipal sobre el buit del porxo, al primer pis.

    1929

  • Mercat Central de Sabadell

    Josep Renom i Costa

    Mercat Central de Sabadell

    Mercat format per la planta semisoterrani, que allotja el magatzem, i la planta pis, amb el mercat, accessible per quatre punts situats als vèrtexs (un d'ells coronat per una cúpula). La coberta està formada per diferents plans inclinats que deixen entre ells les obertures que il·luminen l'interior. El mercat tenia un disseny acurat: el projecte contemplava els diferents tipus de parades segons la seva utilització (fruita, carn o peix) i la seva situació, així com els diferents elements que les configuraven (revestiments, llums, numeració, posacistells, etc.). L'interior ha sofert un progressiu procés de transformació, perdent-se el seu caràcter unitari original. L'obra es va iniciar el novembre de 1928 en l'anomenat "Pla de Sang". Aquest emplaçament era el previst pel Pla de Reforma i Eixample de J. Renom-Manich.

    1927 - 1930

  • 1932

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