which will provide almost one hundred affordable homes the inauguration ceremony was held in the presence of Joan Ramon Riera the Housing Commissioner of the Barcelona City Council as well as representatives of the districts The Abril cooperative housing will be built on a municipal plot of land – granted by the City Council for a period of 99 years through the ESAL Agreement – located at 115 Pere IV Street (el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou) one of which will be designated as social housing for young people formerly under guardianship Sotrac won a municipal competition in 2020 for the plot at 43 Constitució Street for a period of 75 years (plus 15 renewable years) designed according to universal accessibility criteria and a gender perspective while the ground floor will be reserved for community use and open to the neighbourhood Empriu will be built at 17-21 Mossèn Amadeu Oller Street (also in La Bordeta) and will consist of 40 housing units two of which will be reserved for groups at risk of social exclusion 96 new social housing units will be built under a use-rights model based on bioclimatic parameters and designed with the participation of the members of each cooperative residents will pay 40% less than the average market rent in these neighbourhoods The ESAL Agreement was signed in 2020 by the Barcelona City Council and the main associations of cooperatives and social housing foundations This agreement aims to be a pioneering mechanism of cooperation with the third sector through the allocation of public land to non-profit organisations and the transfer of the land This makes it possible to promote the construction and renovation of public housing for rent and the transfer of the right of use (cohousing) through the creation of surface rights It is a tool that promotes the growth of the public housing stock while diversifying the range of actors involved The projects submitted must comply with the following criteria: First published: September 6, 2023 11:11 AM September 11 is a date of utmost historical significance in Catalonia, marking the fall of Barcelona in 1714 during the Spanish War of Succession and the territory’s loss of sovereignty. And as is the case every year, commemorative activities will take place in Catalonia and abroad on Monday and the days leading up to the anniversary of the fateful event.  Check out our guide to the main 'La Diada' activities below:  Get the day's biggest stories right to your phone a kitchen-garden," he wrote in Aragón a 1974 poem-song that has become an unofficial anthem for the region his father was imprisoned by the military for his views and was sheltered from the fiercest ravages of 1940s fascist education Labordeta became a secondary school teacher of history and geography in 1964 In the 1960s he published various books of poetry and motivated by a desire to have his poems reach a wider audience and by the political impact of the Catalan protest singers and for which he toured all of Aragon and much of Spain His strong and beautiful voice was sometimes yearning His Canto a la Libertad (Song to Freedom) became not only a cry against the Franco dictatorship but was taken up in many Latin American countries Labordeta's Somos (We Are) was a hauntingly original ballad denouncing oppression and expressing hope in the future: In 1972 he helped to found a fortnightly political-literary magazine which had a considerable impact on the revival of Aragonese leftwing politics He co-founded the Partido Socialista de Aragón (Aragonese Socialist party) in 1976 but after this was swallowed by the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' party) he joined the Communist party-led coalition Izquierda Unida (United Left) in the late 80s when he began to write and present Un País en la Mochila (A Country in My Rucksack) for Spanish television Walking with a stick and a rucksack around remote villages throughout Spain Finally he found a home for his socialist and ecologist politics in the Chunta Aragonesista (Aragonese Union) he was elected as the Chunta's only MP to Spain's parliament and served two terms Prominent in the successful fights against Spain's participation in the Iraq invasion and against the transfer to southern Spain of waters from the Ebro river Memorias de un Beduino en el Congreso (Memoirs of a Bedouin in the Congress) he had a famous parliamentary clash with MPs of the governing rightwing Partido Popular (Popular party) He responded calmly but with vigour: "You're accustomed to talking all the time because here you've always controlled power and now it annoys you that we people tortured under the dictatorship come here The wry and ironic Labordeta suggested that "¡A la mierda!" (which means "Go to hell!") should be his epitaph but this honest and frank politician and poet will be best remembered for his songs which contributed hugely to Aragon's revival over the last four decades born 10 March 1935; died 19 September 2010 The area includes the space between C/ Constitució The new park will have 21,000 square metres of greenery and nearly 3,000 square metres of facilities The publicly operated Escola Cavall Bernat will also be extended with improved accessibility to the school and to the Santa Eulàlia metro station The amendment to the urban plan allowing the land to be given new uses will be approved at the end of the year Urban Planning and Mobility Area is responsible for providing municipal services linked to the public areas and city services which make life easier for people who live and work in the city.  The City Council seeks to ensure a quality public space a green and biodiverse city that is productive and resilient a city committed to active and sustainable mobility with public involvement and commitment Urban Planning and Mobility Area has different instruments as well as advisory and participatory bodies for effective involvement and collaboration in municipal projects with the general public The Council sees to the smooth running of the city services to ensure the daily wellbeing of the public and contribute towards the city's development The neighbourhood of La Bordeta is to get one of the city’s large green spaces through a project which is part of the push to add more square metres of green space The forecast is for this first stage to last 14 months greening up some 26,000 square metres of space The park is one of the big green projects for this term of office the goal being to integrate and respect the industrial heritage of this large space in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta and at the same time turn it into a big green space in line with the sustainability and climate emergency criteria and building in people’s current uses of the site Work on this first stage is expected to take 14 months and involves an initial investment of 12.3 million euros of which 5.4 million will come from the owners of private plots the overall investment will be 24.8 million euros for an area which will cover 48,000 square metres Notable aspects to the project include the preservation and integration of the façades of old industrial units the creation of a wooded section in a central area of the site and the construction of a water trail to help mark out sectors according to their uses The park will also include children’s play areas The design process for the project included a participatory process for local residents The second stage of construction also entail the installation of 3,520 square metres of solar panelling The project adds more green space to the existing recreation and leisure areas in the city in line with the city’s action to mitigate the effects of climate change by adopting measures to cut air pollution and noise the project in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta won the award for emerging architecture The city hosted a new edition of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award The competition attracted 532 projects from 41 countries with the awards going to the Irish studio Grafton Architects The awards ceremony was part of the EUmies Awards Day held throughout the day in Barcelona and also including an exhibition of scale models videos and drawings of the forty shortlisted projects and a summary of all 532 nominated The awards were given as part of the Model. Barcelona Architectures Festival the big event held this May to announce the Barcelona as the UIA-UNESCO World Capital of Architecture for 2026 offering a 7 km circuit delimiting the boundary between Ciutat Vella and L’Eixample and featuring physical and experimental augmented reality installations in public space workshops and debates inviting people to rediscover the city and architecture a social project with the seal of the city The winner of the Mies van de Rohe for emerging architecture 2022 is a cooperative project based on joint ownership and the joint management of resources it became the first new-build cohousing construction in the city on a plot of land ceded by the City Council in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta The design and construction of the building are the work of the architects cooperative Lacol The building was constructed mainly of timber La Borda is made up of 28 homes and different communal spaces a laundry and multi-purpose rooms to foster community life It has gained recognition through distinctions such as the Special Prize for Innovation in the European Responsible Housing Awards (2019) and the City of Barcelona Award (2018) the city has other energy community models such as this in La Bordeta and Can Girapells promoted by the BATEC cooperative hub and by Rocaguinarda the parents’ association from the latter and the Poblenou local residents’ association have launched an energy community in the neighbourhood which will generate energy from solar panelling at their facilities The initiative comes in addition to other similar energy communities in the city The Poblenou energy community will provide power for two schools the Institute Quatre Cantons and the Institut Maria Espinalt along with the Can Felipa community centre the Offices for Social Rights and the building at the Llevant Fire Station The Institut Quatre Cantons already has a rooftop solar panelling installation generating 58 kWp which will be the initial power generating point from which the community will expand and grow Reducing energy consumption to boost self-consumption the project expects to share some 30% of the power generated by local people living with 500 metres of the school Participation is voluntary and in this first stage the project entails no costs as it is a pilot project being conducted under a collaboration protocol Those wishing to take part must be affiliated to the municipal energy distributor Barcelona Energia and registration gives them the right to 500W of self-generated energy for at least a year Thirty local people have signed up to the initiative so far and can leave the community at any time they wish energy generation and the number of participants is expected to grow in terms of public and private facilities alike The project comes in addition to other energy community models such as the ones in La Bordeta and Can Girapells, the promotion of self-consumption installations in residential buildings with the initiative Moment Solar and the solar pergolas located in public spaces The goal of all these projects is to increase the use of power generated through renewable energy in the city the most efficient and cost-effective way to become carbon neutral by 2050.