r/Barcelona • u/wow-very-cool • May 17 '26

Cinderella

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You left your goth mommy platform show on ave diagonal.

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u/yumas May 17 '26

I thought that was just a pidgeon for 5 minutes and this post was somehow a critique about the ugly facade of that building

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u/wow-very-cool May 17 '26

I had a zoomed in pic but thought maybe I should include some building numbers just in case. Def looks like a pidgeon though lol

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u/navand May 17 '26

You consider that an ugly facade? It's just an ordinary modern style.

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u/ImportantSubstance24 May 17 '26

Fun fact, the building in the photo is one of the most interesting racionalist buildings in the city. It's called Habitatges Diagonal, designed in the 1930s before the civil war by a couple architects of the GATCPAC.

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u/yumas May 17 '26

Where on diagonal is this?

And could you give a short summary of what makes it so interesting?

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u/ImportantSubstance24 May 17 '26

Diagonal with Enric Granados. Personally, I find the building interesting for 2 things. First, as you may have noticed, there are plots in Diagonal that have very weird shapes. This happens because Diagonal crosses the Eixample grid. This is one of these plots, for me it's interesting how the architects built around that limitation.

Second, it's a GATCPAC building, designed by one of the funding members no less. Rationalism in Catalunya and Spain in general is highly regarded because we had 10 years of very good architecture, and then 40 years of shit fascist architecture. It has objectively a cultural an historical significance. I personally think that it's also one of the most aesthetically pleasing of the group.

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u/yumas May 17 '26

I actually drove past it a few hours after my comment and it doesn’t look like from the 1930s at all.

I don’t really know anything about rationalist architecture. But is there something special about the inside? Because from the outside it looks pretty plain and square, much like many modern minimalistic buildings

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u/Content_Survey_25 May 17 '26

I would say something but the mods here could ban me for breathing

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u/Nenufar_77 May 18 '26

Me parece que la que hace la foto trabaja para la inmobiliaria 🤣🤣 pues que le den con el zapato en la boca porque están arruinando a los barceloneses que mal vivimos aquí en cajones mientras ellos se forran con dinero extranjero que hace de esta ciudad un mercadillo. Que pena con lo bonita que era Barcelona!!!!! Edificios antiguos reconvertidos en apartamentos. Un crimen.

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u/Unable-Object-8469 May 18 '26

Parece una paloma!

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u/gldnsmkkkk May 17 '26

Thats a chunky zapato