Английская Википедия:CaixaForum Barcelona
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CaixaForum Barcelona is a cultural center in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Located in the Montjuïc area in a former Modernist textile factory designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, it is owned by the not-for-profit banking foundation "la Caixa".[1] After a restoration of the building, the art center opened its doors in 2002 and since then it hosts temporary art exhibitions and cultural events.[2]
The building
The building was originally commissioned as a textile factory by Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós, and built by the famous Catalan Modernism architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.[1] Called the "Casaramona factory", it was completed in 1911, and the same year won the City Council's award for best industrial building.[1] The factory closed in 1919, but reopened as a warehouse for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition.
In 1940, the building was used as a cavalry barracks for the Spanish Armed Police Corps, and it was used as such until "la Caixa" banking foundation bought it in 1963.[1] It was opened as a cultural center in February 2002.[2] The building was restored prior to its opening,[3] and a new entrance was built, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, in a process that included firing 100,000 bricks to match the original ones.[1]
The center, has almost three acres of exhibition space, a media library, auditorium, classrooms and a restaurant. Visitors descend by escalator to the basement lobby, adorned by a Sol LeWitt mural, then rise again to the exhibition spaces on the ground floor, within the crenelated brickwork.[4]
Gallery
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Main entrance, designed by Arata Isozaki
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Interior courtyard, showing distinctive window shapes and brickwork
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A model of the building
See also
References
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Emma Daly (September 15, 2002), Glorious Recycling: Barcelona; Art in an old mill and Gaudí by bus The New York Times.
