The residential building on Carrer Palamós is integrated into an urban fabric of La Trinitat Nova, a Barcelona neighborhood characterized by isolated blocks. Volume-wise, it presents a series of setbacks that break up the large scale of the development and add complexity to the street. The building is designed through the aggregation of a cross typology of two units per landing, each containing two or three bedrooms and totally floor-through, permitting uninterrupted engagement with the outside. The pieces are organized without hierarchy by means of a mesh that is flexible and adaptable, facilitating changes in use. The pillars are arranged perimetrally, resolving the entire geometry without overhangs. Inside, the staircase and the ventilation courtyard are structural walls that stabilize the building. The facade is a simple ceramic workmanship inserted into the plan of the structure. The project is centered on passive power-saving measures, in a bid to maximize the energy autonomy of the apartments. Sorry, there arent any match using your search terms, please try again using other terms. Barcelona celebrates its iconic La Mercè festival the city's 'festa major,' with a program of 130 concerts A bumper program spread over 23 stages and venues in seven different districts of the city awaits Barcelona locals with Casablanca as the guest city of the festival to add a Moroccan touch New locations such as the Olympic Port and Nova Icària beach have been added to the schedule this year as part of the Regatta Cultural linked to the America's Cup sailing competition Parc de la Trinitat is back as a venue for activities meaning La Mercè will reach all corners of Barcelona again this year The festival's traditional fireworks show set to music will return once again and this year with a special touch from one of Catalonia's greatest ever musicians To see the full festival program, check out the La Mercè website here. Main events, including concerts and the fireworks display, during La Mercè are free. La Mercè always comes with an extensive musical offering, with different styles to be enjoyed in various venues spread out through the city. A total of 130 different concerts will be offered for free as part of La Mercè this year over the course of five days. The Antiga Fàbrica de Estrella Damm will host an eclectic mix of indie, techno, jazz, and DJ sets. Other venues hosting musical performances over the weekend are Plaça Catalunya, Plaça Reial, Recinto Fabra i Coats, La Rambla del Raval, Teatre Grec, Carrer Menéndez Pelayo, Bogatell Beach, Jardines del Doctor Pla i Armengol, Plaça Sant Jaume, Plaça Major de Nou Barris, and Ciutadella Park.   The performing arts program (MAC) of La Mercè is always one of the most eagerly anticipated parts of Barcelona's 'festa major', always delivering a fantastic lineup of local and international talent.  Theatre, dancing, circus, visual arts, and more will play out on the streets, squares, and parks of Barcelona up and down the city as part of the street arts segment of La Mercè.   This year includes 300 performances by 75 different companies, all being performed in 7 venues. Montjuïc Castle will become the epicenter of contemporary European circus for the festival. At the Olympic Port, new as a La Mercè venue this year, Cristina Cazorla is putting on family-friendly and large-format shows. The Nova Icària beach will host Teatres de Campanya – Interference 01, by Marc Salicrú, an experimental proposal. Even more shows will be available throughout the long weekend at the Estació del Nord park, Parc de la Trinitat, Palauet Albéniz, and Parc de l'Aqüeducte de Ciutat Meridiana. Folk culture has always been central to La Mercè, with Plaça de Sant Jaume as the epicenter of the most traditional activities. Traditional Catalan giants, known as 'gegants', will parade through La Rambla and make their way to the Plaça de Sant Jaume square to open festivities. The 'correfoc' fire run will also return to Passeig de Gràcia on Saturday night with fire, lights, and music, performed by dancing devils and fiery beasts. The morning and early afternoon of Sunday, September 22, is a fixture not to be missed in Plaça de Sant Jaume, when the 'castellers' human towers crews wow spectators with another festival highlight, and a gem of Catalan culture. The Castellers de Barcelona, ​​Minyons de Terrassa, and Colla Jove dels Xiquets de Tarragona will perform on the day full of excitement. One of the most outstanding surprises festival organizers have in store for the public this year will keep us waiting until the last moment. After last year's successful collaboration with Sónar for the festival-closing musical fireworks show, known as the 'piromusical', the "pyro-musical," this year the curtain closer features none other than Catalan superstar Rosalía. The singer has selected the music that will accompany the fireworks in the city sky to end the festival, a gift from Rosalía to Barcelona that will be seen on the night of the 24th, just a few hours before she celebrates her 32nd birthday. Get the day's biggest stories right to your phone Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The route will skirt the Ponderosa plain to the Besòs water treatment plant and continue to the Casa de l’Aigua de la Trinitat Vella to link up with Avinguda Meridiana It will be suitable for both pedestrians and cyclists and will increase the greenery in the area The exhibition will provide a comprehensive historical and social account of how water has been used over time It will have a physical and virtual space that will also highlight the history of the pumping stations – locally known as cases de l’aigua – in the districts of La Trinitat Vella and La Trinitat Nova The Rec Comtal is a key piece of the puzzle in understanding the economic and social development of the last 1,000 years of Barcelona’s history As well as assessing the ecological state of the canal the project aims to improve and adapt this habitat through the ecological restoration of the banks the reintroduction of native aquatic species and the reforestation of suitable areas along the Rec It is connected to the Rec Comtal Master Plan which includes 33 points of intervention to create quality spaces and recover the irrigation canal as a green infrastructure and urban route The project is part of City Council’s aim to deconcentrate the city’s tourist offer by creating new attractions that are also of interest to residents La Sagrera station taking shape to the northeast of Barcelona is set to become the city’s largest multimodal interchange handling upwards of 100 million passengers/year Already have an account? LOG IN Subscribe now Site powered by Webvision Cloud Barcelona’s ring roads and some of the major highways connecting with Catalonia’s northern regions come together at the interchange of La Trinitat There are an infinite number of borders in Barcelona that separate our ways of life and the possibilities they have to offer (the ‘Upper Diagonal’ concept the Paral·lel and the Rambla boxing in the hardship of El Raval the inequalities between the adjacent neighbourhoods of Besòs-Maresme and Diagonal Mar); natural borders (the sea the two rivers); artificial borders (roads and some that have always been there (Riera Blanca) Taking a look at the names and features of the outlying neighbourhoods confirms the general rule that on the periphery of the metropolis life is harder the annexation of the old townships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the subsequent absorption of the Barcelona bourgeoisie's summer houses are also the origin of Barcelona’s wealthiest neighbourhoods Barcelona had its own criminal jurisdiction To warn people entering the city how the courts worked on this side of Tibidabo gallows were placed along the municipal roadsides wherever they would be easily visible for strangers the farthest from the centre of power in the city as you emerge from the Trinitat Vella metro the first thing you hear is the muffled roar of car engines unwavering but for the harsh honk of horns A murmur that expands through the space and time of a neighbourhood divided in two The old part is corseted by the entrance to Barcelona from Meridiana (C-33) the Trinitat interchange and the first section of the Ronda de Dalt ring road So much cement does not understand about human proportions But La Trinitat also stretches to Barcelona’s northern river border – the Besòs – and has a considerable green lung taking up the interior of the Trinitat interchange which means that as well as the noise of car engines you can also hear the birds singing This is also where the Collserola range begins working-class neighbourhood which is already over a hundred years old A handful of farmhouses used to make up the inhabited nucleus but since the 1920s this side of the Finestrelles hill began to be home to Aragonese Valencian and Murcian immigrants who came to work on the extension of the Metro for the 1929 International Exposition and who built their homes themselves some with a communal passage and courtyard in 2016 Trinitat Vella’s gross disposable household income had an index of 48.9 taking 100 as the average for Barcelona’s neighbourhoods That means that on the list of 73 neighbourhoods in order of household income and it seems to want to follow the Besòs upstream Trinitat Nova is the city’s second poorest neighbourhood Ada Colau got 39.6% of the vote in the last municipal elections with a household income index of 34.3 against an average of 100 the Vallbona neighbourhood: 1,354 residents at the northern end of the city who in order to get out have to cross the tangle of freeways of the C-17 Carrer de Ribes begins life at far-off Carrer de Roger de Flor in the neighbourhood of Dreta de l’Eixample It used to be a path connecting the city centre with El Vallès the first stretch with this name reaches as far as Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes Carretera de Ribes changes its name to Carrer del Clot it recovers its original name: Carretera de Ribes All this urban course of the old road is what is now covered by the lanes of Avinguda Meridiana and this is the city’s third longest street after Diagonal and Gran Via and it makes up the basic street layout for entering and leaving the city it has been and still is a focus for social protests demanding it be covered over is also the image of the model of city based on the use of predominantly private vehicles From the Sarajevo bridge – which connects Trinitat Vella and Trinitat Nova along Carrer d’Almassora – Stopping there to look for a while at the city and another while at Vallès is well worthwhile the tower in Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes this was to be the new centre of the metropolis at the meeting point of the three main streets: Meridiana it has served to separate the city centre from the more impoverished industrial zone Ronda de Dalt divides two of the neighbourhoods on the city’s hills especially in those sections where it is not covered over A journey lasting three quarters of an hour by bus crosses upland Barcelona from end to end and takes the passenger through contrasting realities A quick review of the neighbourhoods the number 60 bus goes through takes in: Verdum (65th out of 73 in per capita income) with an average household income index of 242.4 (bearing in mind that the average for Barcelona is 100) Barcelona en Comú was the party most voted in every neighbourhood in May 2015 Anyone entering the city by car along Meridiana will discover cement two monstrous walls on either side of the road and city blocks as well as an alarming absence of green spaces as soon as you reach the city you can see Parc de Cervantes the headquarters of multinational companies and banks luxury housing developments and sidewalks with abundant vegetation The accounts by Xavier Theros tell us that there used to be streams that came down through the area of Can Caralleu a neighbourhood set apart from the rest of the city halfway between the mouth of the Vallvidrera tunnel and the monastery of Pedralbes One of these streams flowed over the milky deposits of kaolin on Collserola which is why it was called Riera Blanca (White Stream) Riera Blanca begins at the new Law Courts and ends at the Camp Nou although it seems its origin goes back to greater heights Social life on this urban border took off in the 1920s again with the arrival of Aragonese and Murcians in the Torrassa neighbourhood in L’Hospitalet next to the old church of Santa Maria de Sants during the Second Republic the Murcians who had populated the neighbourhood of La Torrassa all of them out-and-out anarcho-syndicalists put up a notice at Riera Blanca announcing to anyone who wanted to enter from the Sants neighbourhood next door that ‘Catalonia ends here Josep Maria Huertas Claveria wrote: ‘On one side of Riera Blanca you can’t quite see why they’re not both Barcelona now because there’s nothing in particular to distinguish them except that the names of the streets change all that shows there is a border at Riera Blanca is the fact that on one side the rubbish containers are marked ‘LH ben net’ (‘L’Hospitalet nice and clean’) and on the other ‘Ajuntament de Barcelona’ (‘Barcelona City Council’) The latest migrations arriving from Latin America and the Maghreb have diluted the cultural differences on either side of the border even more Whereas before you definitely heard more Catalan as you headed into Barcelona today Caribbean accents can be heard uniformly on either side of Riera Blanca where Riera Blanca changes its name for that of Carrer d’Arístides Maillol When you get to Collblanc and the old Cinemes Continental (now just a bingo) tourist activity gradually falls off until it practically disappears a few metres on in the area where many years ago shanties populated by Gypsies stood and one can easily imagine what the place was centuries ago This hill stands at the end of the Collserola range which meant that it received bountiful amounts of water when it rained Riera Blanca became a ‘muddy torrent in which all sorts of filth floated and which apart from interrupting the traffic in some stretches also caused human casualties’ remembering how the children used to have a great time playing with all the rubbish and junk that accumulated in the stream bed drink or even to bring a body for burial in one of the municipal cemeteries cost money Anyone wanting to cross the Riera Blanca border with merchandise had to pay a tax at the old burots a kind of customs post set up at little checkpoints attended by officials dressed in blue and wearing peaked caps coming into Barcelona with a chicken cost 50 cents which is why the black market was the order of the day in view of the proximity between the houses on either side of the street was to pass the goods from one window to another One on the corner of the street known as Carrer del Mas right where a designer patisserie stands today The second burot was at the crossroads with Carrer de la Constitució on the site now occupied by another pastry shop but in this case a 365 franchise (it used to be a Bracafé) Subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date with Barcelona Metròpolis' new developments From 1 July through to September, the Trinitat Nova station on the L4 and L11 lines will be out of service to allow for modernisation work and improvements currently being implemented by the Catalan government the L4 service will be interrupted between Via Júlia and Trinitat Nova until 31 August while the entire L11 service will be interrupted between Trinitat Nova and Cuiàs until 12 September A special bus service will be laid on while the disruptions last The execution of the bulk of the work means metro services on these lines must be affected even though the disruption will be for the shortest possible period and has been scheduled to coincide with the time of the year when there is less urban mobility To reduce the possible inconvenience to metro users during the disruptions shuttle buses will be operating during the same times as the metro and offering the same capacity: Other transport options in Nou Barris will be: L3 metro (connecting Trinitat Nova) covering totally or partially the stations affected and the Rodalies local train network connecting with Torre Baró Before and during the first few days of disruptions to the L4 and L11 services information staff will be on hand at the stations affected to help people with the best alternative routes available Citizens will also get information at the metro stations and via the usual communication channels Work has been under way since February to improve the Trinitat Nova station and its manoeuvring area. The work will enable the operation for L4 and L11 lines to be separated and the movement of trains optimised The L11 line also provides service to the municipality of Montcada i Reixac The goal is to increase the frequency of L4 trains during rush hours and enable driverless trains to be used along the whole of the L11 Most of the work required will be carried out during the period of disruptions such as the reconfiguration and renewal of tracks in the manoeuvring area the extension to the platform and the installation of doors on the L11 platform changes to the connection between the foyer and the platform to match them to the new layout and the installation of the corresponding signage and safety systems All the work is due to be completed in the autumn SOURCE: TMB