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Article: Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar.(View)(Architectural services)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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With just two months until practical completion, Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar has risen to become a popular new landmark for residents of the Catalonian capital, Barcelona. While local architects intellectualize and debate the structure's conceptual strength--as the pixellated concrete fuselage is steadily sheathed in multiple layers of profiled metal and glass louvres--for Nouvel and his team the facade's apparent complexity condenses their vision of the tower as a fluid mass; a 142m geyser piercing the ground under a consistent and measured pressure. Set against the ever-changing Spanish skies, the facade possesses mirage-like qualities, as shades of colour, angles of ...
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