Parc de la Creueta del Coll
Former stone quarry turned park, its shallow lake overlooked by a fifty-ton concrete sculpture on suspended cables.
This guide to Parc de la Creueta del Coll in Barcelona starts with a former stone quarry in the Gracia district, abandoned by the 1970s, and the choice the city faced between filling the pit with apartment blocks or turning it into something public. It follows architects Oriol Bohigas, David Mackay and Josep Maria Martorell as they reshaped the old quarry through the 1980s ahead of the Olympic Games, keeping its bowl-like walls and turning its deepest point into a swimming lake. You'll hear how Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida came to mark its center in 1987 and what he chose to hang there. Stand at the water's edge and look straight up.
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