Gas Natural Tower

The Gas Natural Tower is one of the most unusual and innovative buildings in Barcelona. The Tower's cutting edge asymetrical design was the brainchild of Catalan architects: Enric Miralles and the Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue. It features in our list of Barcelona's Most Controversial Buildings".

Gas Natural Tower

Its aggressive, design might make it seem ugly for some people, but from every angle it is an extraordinary visual spectacle worth seeing.

The new building of the company Gas Natural, aims to create a contrast between the urban landmark in the skyline of Barcelona, and the low-rise houses of the neighborhood but also to generate quality public spaces, its constructible volume, the singular character of this new building, in relationship with the urban periphery makes the new office building of Gas Natural a very contemporary building. However this doesn’t mean the new building lacks desire to become compatible with its urban surroundings; the small scale of the district of Barceloneta, or the surrounding houses and the park. 

The most interesting thing about the construction lies in the fragmentation of the constructible volume into a series of constructions that at the end form a unified volume, which responds to different scales and in clear relation to the nearby apartment buildings. By forming a great doorway which allows the opening up of the district of La Barceloneta and a singular public space that brings the construction to the ground, until it forms an urban landscape of different dimensions.

The continued closure of the facade is a glass curtain wall that unifies the whole, composed of different windows that give a dynamic aspect to the construction and metamorphic. The treatment of the facades follows similar criteria. The series of large windows create interest close up, while an indifferent volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and the noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that confuse with the other buildings along the periphery.