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.
Courtyard of Library and Senior Center
Street facade of Library and Senior Center
Library and Senior Center Plan
Library and Senior Center passageway between street and courtyard
Tags: Barcelona, Library and Senior Center, RCR Architects, Travel Diary