Rambla De Mar

This guide to the Rambla de Mar in Barcelona starts with the ground underfoot quietly beginning to turn, a section of wooden walkway that rotates open on a hidden pivot without a visible railing or gate. It traces the bridge back to 1994 and the decades in which Barcelona had turned its back on its own harbor, walled off by railway lines and warehouses, and follows architects Albert Viaplana and Helio Pinon's task of reconnecting the old town to the water for the 1992 Olympics. Watch the deck itself, built to mimic the sea it crosses.