Torre Glòries
A symbol of contemporary Barcelona
Torre Glòries is a skyscraper that, since its inauguration in 2005, has become one of Barcelona’s new icons. It is a building constructed with energy efficiency criteria and lights up at night, projecting its colors over the city.
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The icon of Barcelona’s tech district
This great tower marks the gateway to the 22@ technology district, located in the Poblenou neighborhood, where you’ll find quiet streets and a pleasant promenade to enjoy the good weather.
Torre Glòries, formerly known as Torre Agbar because it was commissioned by Barcelona’s water company, is a 144-meter skyscraper with 33 floors, 4 of them underground, located in Plaça de les Glòries. The building, the third tallest in Barcelona after the Mapfre Tower and the Hotel Arts in the Olympic Port, was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.
The tower has an ovoid shape, with a large pillar-free space inside where the elevators run. Its exterior stands out, made of glass slats shaped like adjustable blinds in various colors: warmer tones at the bottom, blues in the central section. At night, 4,000 LED light devices create images around the cylindrical perimeter.
It is a sustainable building that uses solar energy and groundwater to reduce energy consumption. Additionally, the façade has temperature sensors that automatically regulate the closing of the glass slats that form the skin of the skyscraper.
How to get to Torre Glòries?
You can reach Torre Glòries by getting off at the Glòries stop on the Red Route of the Barcelona Bus Turístic, on Zamora Street, and turning right onto Avinguda Meridiana.
For the curious
- Torre Glòries has 60,000 glass panels measuring 120 x 30 centimeters. It takes six people four times a year to clean them!
- For its design, Jean Nouvel was inspired by shapes reminiscent of the pinnacles of Montserrat mountain and the forms Gaudí used in the Sagrada Família.
