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1. Torre Agbar and Glories Square
The Plaça de les Gòries has consolidated its role as a new centrality area of the city. Since 1992 till now Glòries has become the centre of a new urban transformation that has its main scenario in Poblenou, with the project
22@bcn and the opening of diagonal Avenue to the sea.This is confirmed by projects like the skyscraper designed by Jean Nouvel for the Barcelona water company, and also by the new museums that, added to the existing auditorium and National Theatre, will transform the area in a paradigmatic centre of the new Barcelona.
Transport: by coach
Capacity: 30 people
2. Diagonal Mar park and surrounding area
The complete opening of Diagonal, from Glories to Rambla Prim is already a fact. The new quarter of Diagonal Mar and the transformation of Taulat street is a strategic operation in the frame of regeneration of the Sea Front.
To the opening of diagonal and the creation of the new public space, an important operation of creation of new housing building is added. The new constructions incorporate energy saving technologies, the utilisation of renewable energy resources and selective waste management.
The new Diagonal is also characterised by the presence of new green areas, like the Diagonal Mar Park, the second biggest park in Barcelona, and the future Parc Central of Diagonal- Pere IV.
Transport: by coach; walk along Av. Diagonal extension
Capacity: 30 people
3. The city @ starts at Poblenou
Poblenou is no longer home to traditional industry, which moved some time ago to the outskirts of the city.
The instrument for bringing about the transformation of this area is the General Metropolitan Plan for the renewal of the Poblenou industrial land wich contains the following determinations:The creation of the activity sub-area, key 22@, given to land previously classed as industrial (22a). In the new 22@ regulation a clear mix of uses is considered, with some limits only on certain industrial and housing uses.
The definition of @ activities: those related with the new information and communications technology; or related to reseach, design, publishing, culture, multimedia and database and knowledge management. The GMP provides for a greater degree of urban exploitation if the transformation operations include activities of this type.
And the re-urbanisation of the industrial land to provide it with the adequate infrastructure for that kind of businesses and activities.
More than one million of square metres of industrial land will be transformed in housing buildings, parks, public facilities and centres of @ activities.
Transport: by coach;
walk around the area 22@Capacity: 30 people
The Port of Barcelona currently covers 618 hectares. The extension of the logistic area of the Port of Barcelona, made possible by diverting the river and reclaiming land to the sea, will make 1.310 hectares available thanks to the extension of the dykes. The consolidation of the logistics area (ZAL) is required to ensure the Port of Barcelona becomes the main distribution centre for Europe.
If recent rates of passenger growth continue, Barcelona Airport would reach its maximum capacity of 20M passengers a year within the next few years. The Master Plan for the development of the airport includes the construction of a third runaway and a new terminal building. The new airport will be able to serve 40M passengers a year.
The 2004 Forum will also build part of its shoreline on reclaimed land: the new city Zoo-Park, a new yacht haven with 1000 mooring, a bathing area and a seafront park.
All the proposals for the new seashore incorporate environmental considerations with regard to wetlands, marshes, reefs, and improving the bio-diversity of the seabed, as well as the rivers Besós and Llobregat riverbeds and banks.
Transport: by coach and boat
Capacity: 100 people
In 1979 Barcelona had a mere 120 metres of coastline (the portion separating the Old Port Authority Building and the Customs House) for its citizen’s use and enjoyment.
The works for 1992 returned a long stretch of inaccessible coast to the citizens: Nova Icària, Bogatell, Poblenou, Marbella, 4km of new beaches and 25 ha. of land reclaimed to the sea. Between these beaches the Olympic Port was built: a new marina with 740 mooring which was the site of the sailing competitions during the 1992 Olympic Games.
Transport: by coach and bicycle
Capacity: 30 people
6. Forum 2004
The undertaking of the Universal Forum of Cultures 2004 signifies something more than a challenge for Barcelona. They represent the last great renewal project within the boundaries of the city, in a heretofore forgotten, mistreated zone.
Covering more than 214 hectares (five times more than the Vila Olímpica), the operation includes the renovation of important metropolitan infrastructures, such as the wastewater purification plant, the solid waste classification/recycling plant, and the thermal power station, all of which provide an enormously valuable service to the metropolitan area, but a very high toll for the district of Sant Martí and the municipality of Sant Adrià del Besòs.
Through the rectification of the coastline, achieved by reclaiming land from the sea, the objective is to recover formerly little used land for the citizen’s use, and at the same time, create a new focus of activity in this area of great potential, given its location at the confluence of the Mediterranean and the Besòs.
Transport: by coach
Capacity: 30 people
7. Ciutat Vella: Raval
Barcelona turned into the Old Town (Ciutat Vella) in 1859, when Idelfons Cerdà drew his plan of the Eixample . On that plan, what had been the city for over two thousand years automatically became the Old Town.
The recuperation of the different quarters (barris) of Ciutat Vella started by the Town Council a in the late eighties, with an ambitious program of transformation, both urban and economical, has the purpose of bringing back the social dynamism that once characterised the historical centre.
The Raval, one of the areas of the Old Town has been substantially transformed. The project has included a general renewal of the public space as well as the implantation of new economical activities and the social revitalisation of the area.
Transport: by coach; Walk through the Old Town
Capacity: 30 people
8. Plaça Cerdà, Carrer badal, Ronda de mig
The project to reconvert the first ring road ever built in Barcelona (by covering and redesigning Brazil St. and Gran Via Carles III, and by the repairs to Badal St.) is paradigmatic of the transformations of old infrastructures that have been carried out since the Olympics.
The former ring road, no longer cuts the district in two, but is a new space integrated in the rest of the street network of Barcelona, still being one of the most important traffic artery of the city.
As a consequence of the covering of the different segments of this way, new public spaces are available to the pedestrians: a new rambla of 2.200 metres long, over the longest urban tunnel in Europe.
Transport: by coach
Capacity: 30 people
9. Santa Caterina
The district of Santa Caterina has lived in first person many of the events of the history of the city. Its streets, buildings and institutions remind it to us at every pace. The creation of the Eixample, in the first half of the XIX century, was a big commotion to the old town, that was left apart from progress and renovation. This circumstance has also had positive effects, like the conservation of the character and urban features of the area.
The barri of Santa Caterina in now in the heart of the process of renovation of the Old Town.
The works of new constructions, urbanisation and building refurbishment spread all over the area. The refurbishment of the Santa Caterina Market, built in 1845 and the second oldest market in town after La Boqueria, has an important role in the renewal of the area.
Transport: by coach
Capacity: 30 people
10.
Old Port The last few years have also witnessed
the consolidation of the Old Port area as an integral part of the city, now
free of the goods which once cluttered the city’s waterfront. This
transformation will be completed with the renovation of the ferry passenger
terminal and the completion of the World Trade Center. A second harbour
mouth, currently under construction, will facilitate the separation of
passenger vessels and private leisure craft.
Transport: by coach
Capacity: 30 people