In the corner of Diagonal and Pere IV, halfway between the Agbar tower of the building and Jean Nouvel Forum Herzog and De Meuron, lifting the brand-new Sky Tower Hotel Habitat, the fourth tallest building in Barcelona. Its author is the same as the of Biblioteques Nationale de France, French Dominique Perrault.
Initially, this project was based on the construction of five buildings, but by economic issues and did not find any construction to rise, the project was reduced to a single building. The building se basa en un volume at the base and another above. This provision gives two bodies in motion a whole, allows thinning, refers to the idea of the arrows of the Gothic churches. Unlike the tower Nouvel, the Agbar Tower, a building fat, Perrault, is slender and dynamic.
The most innovative architecture and emblematic of the city. The perfect place for all kinds of events, from high finance to the best romances. Equipped with the latest innovations architectural, engineering and design. A convention center of the twenty-first century. The building is designed Metallic shining under the sun's rays, with materials such as glass and metal covering the entire facade.

The hotel is aimed at building a tower of one hundred twenty meters in height that competes with neighbouring buildings: the Agbar Tower in front of the glory and the Princess hotel at the Forum. The new hotel, named Sky and Habitat category with five stars, has two one hundred and seventy-nine rooms in thirty-one plants.

Perrault designed a building that glows under foil the sun's rays, it is used for materials such as glass and metal that covers the entire facade. Another feature of the new building was a large overhang on the street Pere IV distinguishes the areas allocated to common services and hotel rooms.

It is precisely in different geometric quiebros of the building which housed the pool and a restaurant with a view.


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