Jean Nouvel

It is not a tower, a skyscraper in the American sense: it is a unique emergence in the rather quiet city centre. But no vertical line hurt and nervous as arrows or bell towers which generally punctuate the horizontal cities. No, it is rather the fluid mass which would have drilled the ground, a geyser with permanent and measured pressure. The surface of the building evokes the water: smooth, continuous but also vibrating and transparent because the material is read in depth colored and uncertain, bright and qualified. This architecture comes from the earth but has no weight of the stone. Even if she could be distant one echo of old Catalan formal obsessions carried(worn) by the mysteries of the wind of Montserrat's highly-rated. The uncertainties of the material and the light make vibrate the bell tower of Agbar in the skyline of Barcelona. Distant mirage in the daytime and at night. Precise ranging-pole of the entrance of the new diagonal since the place Las Glorias. The singular object becomes the new symbol of the international metropolis and one of its best ambassadresses " - Jean Nouvel

Agbar Tower, Barcelona, Spain