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Hotel Porta Fira
Fira 1
Building
Completed
2010
Hotel
All-Concrete
113.6 m / 373 ft
27
2
345
46,805 m² / 503,805 ft²
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Construction Start
Completed
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
Located between the airport and the city of Barcelona in the Plaza Europa, the Torres Porta Fira are intended to become a new gateway to both the l’Hospitalet de Llobregat and the city of Barcelona. The project consists of two towers with a subtle dialogue between them.
The hotel tower, takes an organic, non-orthogonal form with a changing perception from all sides. The main element of the skin, a rain-screen system of red metal tubes, combines with the curvilinear form to give a stunning visual effect, especially looking directly up the tower from below.
This perception is complemented by the second tower, which houses offices. This orthogonal volume, apparently pure at first sight with a rectilinear glass curtain wall, contains an internal core also of red, which breaks out of the orthogonal form and, in this way, becomes a reflection of the hotel tower. Between the two towers, and connecting them, is a common atrium.
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