Mercat de Santa Caterina
Undulating market roof of over three hundred thousand hexagonal ceramic tiles in a rainbow of colors, over exposed medieval convent ruins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mercat de Santa Caterina in Barcelona begins in July 2000, when architect Enric Miralles died at forty-five and left the market half-built with no roof, and follows his wife and design partner Benedetta Tagliabue as she carried on alone to finish it. You'll hear how the wave of hexagonal ceramic tiles overhead came together, and how crews breaking ground here in the late 1990s hit something nobody expected buried beneath the old market floor. Look up at the color first, before you look down.
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