Arenas de Barcelona

This guide to Arenas de Barcelona follows the building's double life: a Moorish-style bullring that opened in 1900 and hosted its last fight in 1977, then sat empty for two decades until developers handed it to British architect Richard Rogers, of Paris's Pompidou Centre. You'll hear the audacious engineering plan his team devised to save the historic brick facade while gutting everything behind it. Look up at that wall on your way in, it isn't resting on the ground.