I’ve featured colour in Australian architecture, notably Brisbane. Here are a few examples in Barcelona:
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A university building, I believe.
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Hotel Porta Fira and office building in Plaça Europa
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But any contemporary architectural use of colour pales in comparison to the work of Lluis Domènech i Montaner, such as this:
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
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More on Montaner coming up, but first … of course … Gaudi.
Centro Comercial Glòries
Centro Comercial Glòries
Bernard Maybeck is probably the North American version of Montaner. Was active in San Francisco. He is worth a google image search.
Good catch, yvr. Being a Cal grad I was well indoctrinated in Maybeck’s work, especially in Berkeley and Oakland. Delightfully romantic. We need more sensory delight and joy in our built environment in these parts.
Re: Barcelona urban design – Barcelona is the only major city I know of other than Rio where the heart of the city is located so close to its sandy beaches. The centres of most other major cities are located on rivers (Rome, Paris, London, New Orleans, etc.) or in inland locatoins (Madrid, Mexico City) for vrious reasons, or if on salt water, at distance from their respective beaches (NYC, SF, LA). (North Sea and Baltic cities may differ from this generalization, but I don’t know much about them.)
This relatively unique historical condition helps make Barcelona, like Rio, a strange and compelling combination of formal as well as casual, Mediterranean as well as Parisian, warm as well as a bit cooler in the Catalan/non-Spanish sense. It is definitely a place unto itself, unlike any other.