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W Barcelona Hotel

This is a project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and it is located at Barcelona, Spain. Project's program: 480+ rooms five star hotel. There are twenty two images for W Barcelona Hotel.

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Project details

Project name: W Barcelona Hotel
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Program: 480+ rooms five star hotel
Area: Gross Area: 20,000 m2 • Net Floor area: 42,818 m2
Year: Project Year: 2000 • Completion: 2009
Client: Nova Bocana Barcelona
Project by: Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Team: Project Directors: Ricardo Bofill, Jean Pierre Carniaux • Architectectural Construction director: José Maria Rocías

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Designer's statement

W Barcelona Hotel, located on the new entrance of Barcelona’s Port appears as a modern icon rising above the Mediterranean sea, and is the landmark of this new area to be developed with high-end retail, office and entertainment venues. A sail shaped building on a 10 hectares land claimed from the sea, is included in an ambitious urban renovation plan of Barcelona coastline.

W Barcelona Hotel is a five star-hotel with 480 rooms, 67 suites, a roof top bar, large spa, indoor and outdoor pool, several food and beverage concepts and a retail store. The closest volume to the sea is a thin building 105 meters high perpendicular to the dike (1 underground level, 1 ground floor level and 26 storey).

The reflecting façade of silver glass blends with the colours of the sky and the sparkles of the sea. Its allegoric shape is a reference point. This volume is inserted in the low atrium building, the lobby of which reveals views of the sea and enjoys zenith natural light.

Public functions are accommodated under a platform conceived as two huge terraces. A big congress room with a large window over the sea breaks with its volume the horizontal lines of the base of the building.