Architect: RCR Architects
Date: 2007
Address: Carrer del Comte Borrell, 44, 08015, Barcelona, Spain
How to get there: L2 (Sant Antoni)
Observations: Finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009
RCR Architects won the competition in 2004 to design and build the library and senior center. The building is located within a row of residential buildings and provides an opening to the newly created public square within the block. The entrance is created by a suspended structure between two apartment buildings creating a gateway into the courtyard. Inside the public square is a single story building that wraps around two sides of the courtyard providing reading rooms for the library. The fully glazed walls are covered by a series of vertical blades forming a walkway that runs between them. The library is a branch of the Biblioteques de Barcelona.
Tags: Barcelona, Library and Senior Center, RCR Architects, Travel Diary