When Odile Decq won the competition to create a state-of-the-art residential tower off Barcelona\u2019s Avenida Diagonal, the prospect was exciting \u2013 not least because this would be her\u00a0French architecture studio\u2019s very first high rise in Decq\u2019s\u00a0over 40-year long career. It was also a scheme\u00a0filled\u00a0with challenges. \u2018There already was a concrete...
Odile Decq shows us around Antares, a residential development in Barcelona and the French architect’s first ever high riseWhen Odile Decq won the competition to create a state-of-the-art residential tower off Barcelona’s Avenida Diagonal, the prospect was exciting – not least because this would be her studio’s very first high rise in Decq’s over 40-year long career. It was also a scheme filled with challenges.
A low, angular, geometric pavilion – in the bright red colour that often appears in Decq’s works, although here she was inspired by Miró and Gaudí, she says – is installed in the residents’ garden, connecting the high rise to the street level below and weaving it into its surroundings. There’s also a restaurant that occupies part of the tower’s ground level and enhances this link to the Barcelona bustle. Two swimming pools are the highlight of the residents’ amenities.
‘I am in love with my project,’ Decq smiles, clearly pleased with the result. ‘Every idea I have put in it was carefully thought out and works well. It’s what I call global design; it goes from the big to the small scale, it’s all-encompassing. I was not originally asked to do all that, but it made sense. Now, everything is coherent. I like that level of involvement with every one of my projects, but of course you cannot do this without a good client, like this one,’ she concludes.
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