The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, was created by French designer Jean Nouvel. It opened during June 2005 in Barcelona, Spain, and it has been inaugurated officially by the kings of Spain on the sixteen of September of 2005.
The building, which measures 142 metres in height, hosts the Barcelona Water Corporation, and Nouvel has designed it to evoke water: smooth and continuous, shimmering and transparent. The Agbar Tower is located in the Poblenou area of The catalonian capital and is named after its initial owners, the Agbar Group, a holding business whose interests include the Barcelona Architect water corporation Aigües de Barcelona. To visit Barcelona, you will arrive at Aeroport Barcelone.
Ceramica medieval catalana: El monument, document (Quaderns cientifics i tecnics) (Catalan Edition)
Ceramica medieval catalana: El monument, document (Quaderns cientifics i tecnics) (Catalan Edition)
It is made up of 4,400 windows as well as 56,619 transparent glass plates and translucent ones: the glass of the windows is transparent, otherwise it is etched to remain merely translucent. The cladding consists of aluminum panels in twenty five colors behind glass louvres. The louvres are titled at 14 distinct angles calculated to deflect straight sun light. In addition, temperature sensors control the aperture and closes of the glass blinds of the frontage, optimizing the consumption of required energy to the air conditioning.
The Agbar Tower is built of reinforced concrete sheathed with red and blue glass panels, reminiscent of the colorful tiles on structures by Antonio Gaudí. At nighttime, the Agbar Tower is brilliantly illuminated by means of LED illumination shining from more than 4,500 window openings. Glass blinds are motorized. They open and close mechanically to adjust temperature within the building. To visit that amazing tower book your Voyage Barcelone
Jean Nouvel wrote on this project: This is not a tower, a skyscraper, in the American sense. It is a more an emergence, rising singularly within the center of a usually calm town. Unlike slender spires and bell towers that typically pierce the horizons of horizontal cities, this tower is a fluid mass that bursts through the soil like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure.” The expenditure of the building has been about one hundred thirty million euros.


