Barceloneta Market, Plaça Poeta Bosca Barcelona Building, Photos, Spainish Retail Architecture
Barceloneta Market in Barcelona
Plaça Poeta Bosca Commercial Building Development, Catalonia, Spain – design by Miàs Architects
7 Jan 2018
Barceloneta Market
Architect: Josep Miàs
Location: Plaça Poeta Bosca, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Barceloneta Market in Barcelona – Building Information

When Josep Miàs was a student at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB), Barceloneta was the subject of much conversation. Restaurants on the beach which later disappeared… narrow streets, cramped flats, the clothes hanging out on the balconies, the shops, the artisans’ workshops… and its people, who talked, and still talk, fast and loud.
The project meant a chance to go back to the neighbourhood in an interested manner; it was no longer a trip down there for fun, to discover its people, its bars, its smell… but rather a survey of the place with the object of identifying what would enable us to reveal its qualities and to describe it accurately for the purposes of a project.

An attempt, ultimately, to explain a reality, to offer a new and fuller meaning to an architectural project, beyond resolving a programme or commission.

As early as the competition stage Miàs Architects did a collage with some of César Manrique’s fantastic fish, drawings for children they hoped might embody and express the joy of these people: their liveliness, the...