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GLORIES TOWER
BARCELONA, 1914
Jean Nouvel y b720
High Tech
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The first skin of the façade is a concrete wall anarchically pierced with 4,400 windows.
This perforated skin, allows the building to breathe.
As identifiable from the inside as from the outside, creates a game of lights in the interior while framing the views. The irregular disposition of the openings makes the loads to zigzag down the façade, generating different forces along the wall.