Hotel Arts Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Contributed by Project for Public Spaces

With isolated amenities, this hotel seems designed for people who are afraid of setting foot in a real city.

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08/04/03 Rosemary Trigg said:

Dear Sirs, I was surprised to find the comments on Hotel Arts Barcelona on your website,recently reported in the Barcelona local press. There are factual errors which I did not expect from your association.The hotel is called Hotel Arts Barcelona and the guestrooms start on the 2nd floor not on the fifth as stated in the comments.The comment about the restaurants is barely intelligible,what does "far removed from anything that resembles a city" mean in this context? I feel that this is ill-informed and misplaced criticism and that this Bruce Graham designed building is certainly not worthy of the Hall of Shame classification. I would welcome your comments. Yours faithfully, Rosemary Trigg Director of Marketing and Public Relations Hotel Arts Barcelona

10/08/03 Chris Steude said:

I currently live in Barcelona and I don't think that this building should be on the hall of shame list. Neither should it particularly be on the great spaces list. This profile of the Hotel Arts should be rewritten, as it is confusing, as the previous comment has said. Furthermore, only the top picture is of the said building. The other two are completely unrelated to the building and are several blocks away. How it does not "resemble a city in any way" is rather confusing. It, along with its twin, the Mapfre Tower, create a gateway towards the sea. Finally, Barcelona readdressed its shoreline partially for the Olympics, for which this was built. While it is merely mediocre architecture, I don't think that merits it being so harshly reviewed. It would seem that this site is somewhat biased against designers, and much prefers "placemakers"--whatever that is.