Expansion of El Corte Inglés in Barcelona

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Albert Puigdomènech
David Mackay
Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
Oriol Bohigas Guardiola

In the early 1990s, work began on the remodelling of the façades of El Corte Inglés in Plaça de Catalunya. The initial project for this remodelling and extension was the work of the architects José A. Martínez Lapeña and Elies Torres. The new building would occupy almost entirely one of the façades of the Plaça de Catalunya, which would be complemented only by another juxtaposed building corresponding to another property and destined for other uses, on the corner of the Plaça de Catalunya and Carrer de Fontanella. The project for this building was commissioned to MBM Arquitectes.

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In view of the special urban planning circumstances, the City Council demanded that the two buildings be treated as a unit. The two projects were to look as if they had been merged into one. To achieve this dialogue between the large volume of El Corte Inglés in Plaça de Catalunya and the houses on Carrer de Fontanella, MBM's project established a circular turn, topped with a cylindrical body that would isolate the building from the neighbouring houses on Carrer de Fontanella at the top. The same cylindrical body, on the lower floors, unfolds, according to a plane coinciding with the Fontanella alignment, to a height coinciding with the average height of the neighbouring houses.

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When the project was completed, El Corte Inglés acquired the land to incorporate it into the large commercial building. MBM had to adapt the previous project to the new requirements by modifying the façade openings, which previously corresponded to office premises. The overall concept and volumes could be fully retained, but the type of openings had to be changed.

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General information

Expansion of El Corte Inglés in Barcelona

YEAR

1993

Status

Built

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Free visit

Address

Sq. Catalunya, 14

08002 Barcelona - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.387804253

Longitude: 2.1711341786

Classification

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

FAD 1993

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FAD 2005

Involved architects

Albert Puigdomènech

David Mackay

Josep Maria Martorell i Codina

Oriol Bohigas Guardiola

Involved architectural firms

MBM Arquitectes

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