Ohla Eixample Hotel Barcelona

Barcelona launches another five-star hotel

Ohla Eixample Hotel Barcelona

Barcelona trains an average of one hotel per month, usually medium or high categories.

They are not as many as before the crisis, but neither has been left still feel the temporary moratorium on construction of hotel rooms whose effects (licensing the formalities are long), they will be felt more in the coming years. Some debuts, however, continue to draw attention for their uniqueness or distinctive elements among the nearly four hundred examples with which the city, not counting pensions and hostels.

One example is that just lifted the curtain on the number 289 Còrsega Street, named Ohla Eixample, brother of Ohla of Via Laietana and also owned by the group Solixent Invest. The property offers 94 rooms (for prices that vary according to the season but from 225 euros), giving relief to the original office use for which it was conceived this building from the sixties.

Indeed, one of the hallmarks of the hotel is its new facade, where the architect Daniel Isern has created volume based vertical modules of different proportions that overlook wooden boxes.

The finish of the 800 pieces of pottery, engraved texture, is a creative pirouette by the ceramist Toni Cumella with and Institut d’Architecture Avançada de Catalunya, which has applied robotics and algorithm so that each piece looks eight seconds traces of a version of Vivaldi’s Four seasons. They are all different but are assembled as artistic and musical montage.

MUSICAL E SOUNDPROOFED

However, innovation is felt, especially in isolation. The architecture team has claimed the previous pillars and piers placed seismic shock absorbers, a technology pioneer in Spain and second in Europe, they say, to prevent noise and vibration own a farm set on a basement with metro and railways. To be floating, the soundproofing is guaranteed.

A more visible and hedonistic effects, the new hotel is also known for a heated pool on its panoramic roof and a terrace in a typical courtyard of the Eixample. On the ground floor reception, cafeteria and cocktail bar are integrated as habitat where coincide tourists and local public. To tempt the gastronomical route, it has the Xerta restaurant, run by Fran Lopez (with a Michelin-star Villa Retiro Xerta), based on flavors of southern Catalonia, rice and seafood, and the double option eating at tables or bar facing the kitchen.

The traveler who spends the night one interior focused on noble materials such as leather, wood, iron and cement and avant-garde lines integrated into the old building will be. As in the case of Via Laietana (just steps from Gotic), the hotel also will draw a clear hotelier boom environment, along with Enric Granados.

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Slow food in the Eixample of BCN

Slow food in the Eixample of BCN

The Merchant of L’Eixample has begun strongly his career in the corner of the passage Mercader with Mallorca street. This house converted into a gastronomic restaurant welcomes ( “cuisine of Barcelona ‘claim) with the philosophy’ slow food ‘, the same applies in El Filete Ruso (one of his own boss in the new facility).

The Merchant of L’Eixample, whose bid avoids fancy stuff in the kitchen to highlight the quality of ingredients, have their own garden and ecological product works (try it Kilometer Zero). There are tapas to take at any time of day, plates (attention to the compelling simplicity of squid jigging) and suggestions of the month. Average price, 30 euros.

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Amazon express delivery in Barcelona

Rented a building in the Eixample at Rossello street that has a large underground warehouse

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The multinational electronic commerce Amazon has chosen Barcelona to test its new logistics model, express delivery, which will deliver a purchase on the same day, within hours. The multinational has set a goal to improve the shopping experience, and for that one of the key factors is the delivery. Thus, the company has studied various locations in Barcelona and has finally reached an agreement to rent the former headquarters of the publisher Gustavo Gili 89 Rossello street of Barcelona, according to TV3. The building has ample storage space and is already under construction. The company declined to comment on the operation and simply explain that “this is an innovative project focused on the customer.”

Real estate sources explained that the US company has studied various, small and central, in addition to the large logistics center in El Prat wants to open locations. Its proximity to consumers will help reduce delivery times, and thus include in its catalog selling fresh produce. The company has also initiated a trial of this distribution model in New York, but it’s the first time we implemented in Europe.

François Nuyts, CEO of Amazon to Spain, as he said last May during a visit to the city, “we are working to launch new services in Barcelona. Whatever we do in the United States and Spain work to try to move it, and we also want to own innovation. ” The manager, who knew Catalunya where usually spend their holidays, said that “when we explained in US projects for Barcelona we found a very special resonance.” He reiterated that his aim is “to improve the shopping experience of Barcelona”.

Amazon launched a year ago in New York express delivery service Prime Now available only in some areas of Manhattan, which overcharged by $ 8 promises to deliver the order in 1 hour, and free delivery order in two hours. In May, the company expanded the service, and also included the distribution of prepared food restaurant chains and high-end delivery of fresh foods.

The new store will complement the street Rosselló the company logistics center opens in El Prat de Llobregat, on land of Incasòl, which will serve orders throughout southern Europe. The firm is conducting due diligences, at the closing of the acquisition, which could be delayed a few more weeks was conditioned.

 

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Antoni Gaudí where he lived?

Ciutat Vella, Eixample and Gracia were three districts where the architect lived and mark three different periods of his work

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When Antoni Gaudí Reus stopped coming to study architecture in Barcelona he moved with his brother to Old City, particularly in the district of San Pedro, Santa Caterina and La Ribera, in 1868. His family, of humble origin, he sold some land so that their children could study and that area was cheaper than they found it.

They were in the Plaza de Moncada number 12 and then moving up close, the street number of the L´Espaseria 10. Both houses next to Santa Maria del Mar, inspired by Gaudi’s architectural background. After lived Verdaguer and Callis street number 16, where an aunt lived and where, just a few years later, they built the Palace of Catalan Music, a symbol of modernist Barcelona. The last of the Old Town is the street where he lived Sant Rafael number 26, on the corner of Rambla del Raval.

During his life in Old City, Antoni Gaudí was a young man who dressed well, going to gatherings organized in different bars and was away from the center of religious life. But once started receiving professional commissions, was changing lifestyle and also district.

Most of his clients were bourgeois and lived in Barcelona’s Eixample district. Then Gaudí decided to move and did so very close to one of the most famous modernist furniture factories of the time. First he lived on the street Consell de Cent 370, and then moved la Diputació street, 339.

Gaudi finally settling in the Casa Rosada Park Guell, a home he shared with his father, who died a year and her niece, who died six years later. When Gaudí was left alone was immersed in the project of the Sagrada Familia and ended up living in the temple workshop atonement until he died.

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