This week has died in Milan Barcelona Alfonso Sagnier, one of the great Catalan architect of the se

This week has died in Milan Barcelona Alfonso Sagnier, one of the great Catalan architect of the second decade of the twentieth century. Born in Barcelona in 1924, won the professional title of architect at the School of Architecture in 1952. A year later he joined professionally since his fellow Jesuit school in Sarria, and career Federico Correa Ruiz (Barcelona 1924). The professional study Correa- Milan is responsible bintang tabloid for some of the most representative buildings of Modern Barcelona.
On the occasion of the death of Milan television did a review of his works, both architectural and interior design project, and my feeling was that these "spaces" were part of my daily landscape. From its rational houses Cadaques to "skyscraper" Atalaya (1966) Diagonal Avenue, bintang tabloid through the building Metro 3 (1982), the street corner Tusset Diagonal, on the ground floor of which is is the furniture bintang tabloid store Habitat. One of his most ambitious work was the project management bintang tabloid of the Montjuic Olympic Stadium, as well as the conversion of the Olympic stadium. Among the interior bintang tabloid design projects that have triumphed in Barcelona are decorated shop Furest (1972) Diagonal Avenue, and the restaurant "Flash Flash" 1969 local emblem of the "gauche divine" (the God left) Barcelona in the seventies. I can not deny that the aesthetics of this place I have pledged, and that very moment, and if we consider that the designs are in vogue at the time of mounting a local, it seems that Flash is Flash " démodé "I bintang tabloid think the work Milà- Correa there are still many successful years. In Sitges is an example of architectural Milan (Strap) Aiguadolçs residential area, the complex bintang tabloid of buildings that are currently on the side of the Hotel Melia. In 1966, during the tourist boom, the architectural firm was commissioned to design the proposed development of a set of apartments for tourist in space at that time was a little away from the town, known as Cala Balmins, and what had not yet built the controversial and long Aiguadolç bintang tabloid Marina project, which would be opening in 1977. In the book "Correa & Milan. Architecture 1950-1997 "published by the Association of Architects of Catalonia in the exhibition on the work of these architects bintang tabloid during the months of October and November 1998, v could see headquarters College Square in New Barcelona, Beth Galí, responsible for coordinating the book makes extensive interview the stars of the show. When referring to the project Aiguadolçs read: Beth Galí: Aiguadolç is the first major urbanization projects. FC / AM: We ordered all the development. It was a land shaped peninsula that extends back into the sea. The project was completed pyramid. Ie in front buildings of a plant; when the ground cover coincided with the last field, situàvem the second line of buildings, two floors, and so on. The two-storey buildings called it the towns. They were small buildings of six apartments in each plantation -three separated by a stop filter views towards the sea. People could go directly to their homes by an exterior staircase. It was as if we had a house divided, ie a town in several apartments. The first level consists of the lower buildings of a plant, formed a continuous line, with flat roof transformed into a public promenade from which entered the apartment. bintang tabloid These had a terrace overhanging under which passed the walkway. Situàvem on the living room and the bedrooms below. In the end he built one of the islands that formed the group in which the architects Peter Lemon and Xavier Ruiz Valle built blocks high and we villages. BG: In this work, there is also the history of Cadaques: fireplaces in the front, bintang tabloid blind walls with large windows under the roof two sides, solid ledges, big spoilers, etc. FC / AM: Cadaqués was in the beginning of our career and there we forge our way of understanding architecture. But often this way of understanding it went against what the customers want: for example, our struggle in favor of solid parapets. Establish convinced of the advantages in terms of privacy and isolation from the outside but always hit the taste