Barcelona, known as one of the great cities of the Mediterranean, has an admirably energetic parks department and much which appeals to the garden visitor. renaissance cloister gardens, nineteenth century parks, art nouveau, twentieth century parks and plazas: Parque Guell Barcelona, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Parque Guell Barcelona
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The best and most famous example of Art Nouveau landscape-architecture has been designated a UNESO World Heritage Site. Count Eusebi Guell, a wealthy businessman, conceived the project as infrastructure for a garden suburb on what Gaudi described as 'the treeless mountain'. The only parts to be completed, before worked stopped in 1914 and it became a public park in 1922, were a grand entrance, two houses, 3km of paths, a marvellous terrace and the hippostyle hall, planned as an underground market. Guell's friend, Antonio Gaudi, was the designer. Both men intended that the project would express the spirit of Catalonia as a potentially independent nation. The park is very popular and has an obs.....
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Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
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The building and garden were designed as the German Pavilion for the Barcelona International Exposition of 1929. After the show, it was dismantled. In 1983, it was re-constructed on the same site and using the same materials. It is a prime example of how the principles of abstract, cubist, design can be applied to the integration of outdoor and indoor space. The materials are sheet glass, polished steel, marble, travertine and onyx. Partly because the the stone has a wonderful colour and texture, partly because it is beautifully composed, and partly because of the integration of water and vegetation, the pavilion is vastly more appealing than most modernist-brutalist concrete structures which.....
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