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Hotel ME Barcelona
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A Barcelona hotel soars as a new emblem along the skyline.
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Hotel ME Barcelona is a new 300,000-square-foot tower on Barcelona’s Avinguda Diagonal, where it echoes the dynamism of Barcelona’s vertical landmarks such as the Sagrada Familia. The 380-foot-high tower, clad in anodized aluminum, contains 257 guest rooms in a rectangular parallelepiped. Its form is chiseled so that one portion cantilevers 65 feet above street level to define the hotel’s entrance. A cubic volume at the rear of the tower houses the lobby, restaurants, meeting rooms, and bars. Red, blue, and green glass, distributed at random along the façade, turn the tower at night into an urban lantern, a luminous symbol of Barcelona.
Formal name of building: Hotel ME Barcelona
Location: Diagonal/ Pere IV, 272 –286 08005 Barcelona
Completion Date: November 2004-May 2008
Gross square footage:
Above ground: 206,000 sq. ft.
Underground: 117,000 sq. ft.
Total Height: 380 ft.
Total construction cost: 70.000.000 €
Owner: Hoteles Sol Meliá, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Architect:
DPA Dominique Perrault Architecture
6, rue Bouvier, 75011 Paris, France,
Tel: +33 1 44 06 00 00
Fax: +33 1 44 06 00 01
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