mirallestagliabue (http://www.mirallestagliabue.com/)

A very inspiring office.

Enric Miralles (1955-2000) studied architecture in the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) and graduated in 1978.
Collaboration with Piñon-Viaplana during 1973-85. Amongst completed projects with this group, there is "Plaza dels Paisos Catalans" in Barcelona.
Since 1993 he had been in partnership with Benedetta Tagliabue.

Fullbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York 1980/81.
Assistant Professor in the ETSAB since 1978.
PhD in 1983. Thesis: "Something seen at right and left (without
glasses)".
Professor in the ETSAB since 1985.
Chair of Architecture in the ETSAB since 1996.
Director and Professor of the Master Class in the Städleschule of Frankfurt since1990.
Professor in the GSD of Harvard University with the"Kenzo Tange Chair", Boston, since 1992.

Invited Professor and lecturer in several universities in the USA, South America and Europe (Columbia University, 1988-1989. Princeton University as J. Labatut Chair, 1993-1994. R.I.B.A., A. A., Schools of Architecture of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Ciudad de Mexico, Berlage Institute, Mackintosh School, ...).

Membership of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.


Benedetta Tagliabue
Born in Milan, graduated in Venice in 1989 with the maximum graduation in the "Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia", with a thesis about Central Park, New York.
Her thesis, elaborated in New York during the years 1987 to 1989 under the tutorship of Professor Diane Lewis, of the Cooper Union Chaining School , won the first award in the "Biennale Joves de Barcelona" in 1991.

During her stay in New York she colaborated professionaly with the Architectural Firm Transbuilding and Gandelsonas-Agrest and wrote several articles in the Italian architectural magazine "l'Architettura cronache e Storia" and the European magazine "Utopica", a magazine in whose creation she participated.

Worked in Barcelona in Espinet-Ubach Studio from 1990-'91, joining afterwards the Enric Miralles' Studio andthen becoming a partner. At present she is leading the studio.

She has written articles for several architectural magazines since 1986 and has been taking part in academic activities with courses and lectures given at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB), at Royal College of Physicians, at the ETSAV (Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura del VallÈs), at COAC (Col.legi Oficial d'Arquitectes de Catalunya), at the School of Architecture "Staedelschule" of Frankfurt am Main and in several International Seminars such as the Menendez Pelayo Summer Course in La Coruna 1998, in the Summer Course of the Universidad Javeriana in Barcelona 1997 and 1998, "Barcelona Metropolitana". E.T.S.A.B 1992, Barcelona. "Architektur Zentrum" in Vienna. 1993 etc.

Santa Caterina Market - Barcelona

Facade detail of new Scottish Parliament

These are the windows of the delegates offices.
Will scan some more pictures from 'Architektur Aktuell' soon.

Project for six houses on Borneo island
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Finished: 1996


Enric Miralles:

The Borneo project is a large scale intervention, in the central harbor at Amsterdam...
Our houses are a very small part of it...

We depart from the existing planning conditions
a house on each side of the street...
We transform it into a single long house that faces both streets...

The first hypothesis is the abstract planning...
a single long house from street to street...

Then,
the small connecting alley that existed in the planning becomes an empty house...

We like to investigate the Dutch tradition about single room constructions...

From this abstract hypothesis, a much more intuitive way of working with living conditions is developed...

I like to play with abstract dimensions that later will become living conditions....

very nice projects....i like the usage of the different shaded bricks....good inspiration.

Their website isn't that great, no overview and it takes hours to browse through their projects with the map concept.

Housing project
you should precise it's in Holland(if I remember well) , etc etc :D
but there's so much to say about the work of Miralles and his partner

He was a partner of Carme Pinos, untill they separated in 1994.

Among others, the Igualada Cemetry was one of their best works. El Croquis had some issues about them.

Igualada Cemetery Park
Igualada, Spain
1985–96 (partially complete)
Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, Barcelona, Spain
Caption: View from upper level terrace toward path
Credit: Duccio Malagamba

love these details

another view from above

a more general view

Also, their Club for arc and arrow...

P/B 1989-91. Area del Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain.



http://www.gbl.tuwien.ac.at/_docs/studio/archiv/studio2000/studioGBL/material_beispiele/miralles/bogenschiessanlage/index.htm

kmz comming soon...:)
And here it is ! low-res but with the roadmap

That cemetary was in the Groundswell exhibition at the MOMA and is well documented in the exhibition catalogue.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/groundswell.html

kmz comming soon...:)
Of course it is El Primo. :cool:

Of course it is El Primo. :cool:

Ja ja , that is actually my surname, "EL PRIMO"... since high school through university... "PRIMUS INTER PARES" (FIRST AMONG EQUALS...)

Great news for Mr. Miralles. :D

LINK (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4311916.stm)

More about MIRALLES/TAGLIABUE (http://www.arcspace.com/architects/miralles/miralles_feature.htm)

Great news for Mr. Miralles. :D

LINK (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4311916.stm)

Well, actually Mr. Miralles died some years ago...

His first wife was Architect Carme Pinos,
Their first firm Miralles-Pinos became widely famous.

They then separated in 1994 and he then married Architect Benedetta Tagliabue.

The widow continues with the Miralles-Tagliabue Architecture firm.

Enric Miralles
1955 - 2000
Barcelona, Spainhttp://www.arcspace.com/architects/miralles/miralles.jpg
Photo: Jonathan Becker

Enric Miralles was kind, intelligent, full of joie de vivre, and a wonderful architect.
The Igualada Cemetery outside Barcelona, one of his early projects, is one of the most poetic buildings I have been to.
I became an instant admirer and was never disappointed.

Our hearts go out to Benedetta Tagliabue, his wife and partner, and to his two young children.

Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue designed one of the small pavilions for Kolonihaven, the Architecture Park, under construction in Copenhagen since 1996. Unfortunately the pavilion has not yet been constructed; I will make sure it is the first one on the list next Spring.
Kirsten Kiser

Well, actually Mr. Miralles died some years ago...

I know Primo! That's why I put the smiley :D
(Think it's not funny then...) :(

Sorry about that, mr. Miralles. God bless you! ;)

I know Primo! That's why I put the smiley :D
(Think it's not funny then...) :(

Sorry about that, mr. Miralles. God bless you! ;)

I think this "detail" was not clear in the thread, not to mention the role of his architect-wifes ...

Here's the scans of the scottish parliament.

Concept

Outside

Interior 1

Interior 2

Plenum

wow this miralles guy really knocks me of my feet ....
Some of the greatest things i've seen in years!
I guess i'll have to ad him to my 'all time favourites list' just below 'Rick Joy' which is still my numero uno...

mmm...thinking about such a list , wouldn't a poll be great on the subject "greatest architect alive"? anyone?


to Primo,
It's great to be the first in university...nevertheless i think it spelled:
"Primus inter pares" :no no no: since 'equals' is plural and thus paris must be pares. I think 'paris' must be a city of some kind...
Sorry i'm such a wanker ;)

You're right (no spellcheck in Latin!)
Actually it was a joke, it started because there were three Marcelo's in my school class as well as my real cousin, so he would call me "primo" to differentiate me from the rest (and because I was actualy his "primo"- cousin in Spanish).
When I got into the university, one of the other Marcelo's from my school class entered with me and kept on calling me PRIMO, and it immediately cached on and added the "EL" to make it singular, particular.

Thant's how I became ... "EL PRIMO":cool:

I loved Miralles-Pinos work since I knew about them more than 15 years ago. Some friends of mine who were living in Barcelona introduced me to their work.

We regretted their separation because they made a great architecture team, as well as his early death (at 45 of cancer I understand).

CHECK OUT CARME PINOS WORK:

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9919#post9919

Hey ADMINS, shoudn't this thread be split into a Miralles-Pinos one for the Igualada Cemetry and archery olympic pavilion?

Here more plans and details of the Barcelona Market

http://www.arqa.com/informacion.cfm/n.6333.cfm

A few more pictures of Igualada

Gymnastic centre of Alicante 1993
One of the las projects designed with Carme Pinos, wich remained under his supervision when they separated.

Although it has a covered court ND SEATS 1.500 , it is an educational facility.

The public is introduced to the heart of the building using a group of ramps and stairs that divide horizotaly the competition area and training, and verticaly the public and the sportists.

plans

inside view

Hey cacapis, check this one:

Miralles in front of Courouchet in 1994...

http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD20b.jpg

A celebration of colours and lights, of happy, smiling people, of voices and gestures expressing approval and participation.
There's happiness all around, probably just what Enric Miralles - who died in July 2000 - was hoping to see on the day the market opened to the city and its inhabitants. An isolated fragment cut off from the city's main arteries, the Avenida Cambó, where the market is located, has been restored to life after years of isolation and marginalisation.
The project, which began as a simple renovation of the old market, was expanded to encompass urban redevelopment of the entire district in response to the architects' proposal, which was welcomed by the client, the Ayuntamento de Barcelona.


http://www.floornature.com/worldaround/img_magazine/wr481_1_popup.jpg

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The new head office is designed by the prestigious architect from Barcelona Enric Miralles and by Benedetta Tagliabue, who won the call for ideas for the Gas Natural Group's new head office. The proposal by the EMBT studio is characterised by a spectacular 20-storey glass tower which, given its sinuous, modern architecture has already become a landmark on the skyline of Barcelona.

http://www.europaconcorsi.com/db/cache/pub/pub_6312_w500h500q75bw1_535522598.jpg

A horizontal building projects out of the tower between the 5th and 10th storeys, lending the building a strong personality and which from an architectural point of view enables the skyscraper to integrate into the entire complex and the surrounding city.

http://static.flickr.com/18/70832268_040746c610_o.jpg

"The building rises up out of the city itself and merges with it. From whichever angle you see it, it fits in perfectly with the surrounding buildings, whether they be the low buildings in the Barceloneta, and the high towers of the Olympic Village". This is how Benedetta Tagliabue explains how they took into account when designing it, both the area in which Gas natural's new offices were to be located and the architectural traditional of the city of Barcelona, with tall buildings which blend into the urban landscape.

One Project Per Thread Thankyou

Reinhardt,

1. The travel forum is intended to have your pictures and impressions about one determined building, together with relevant travel and how to get there information.
2. If you want to make a thread about an architect, we have the Architects+Designers forum, but be sure it has never been posted before (that's why I merged your posts to this thread).
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Thanks and welcome to PPB²

Here more graphics on the GAS NATURAL building in the Barceloneta district:

http://www.noticiasarquitectura.info/especiales/gas_natural_embt.htm

excelent pictures of the Igualada cemetery by BryanBoyer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan/sets/72057594057515557/) in flickr.
Great travel tips in his site www.bryanboyer.com too.