CaixaForum Barcelona
CaixaForum Barcelona is a cultural center built inside the former Casaramona textile factory, a Modernist industrial building designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. The factory was completed in 1911, the same year it won the City Council’s award for the best industrial building, showing how seriously Barcelona treated its industrial architecture. It closed in 1919, then reopened as a warehouse for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition—an early link between local manufacturing and international spectacle. In 1940, the building was repurposed as cavalry barracks for the Spanish Armed Police Corps, and it remained in that role until the not-for-profit banking foundation “la Caixa” bought it in 1963. After restoration, the cultural center opened in February 2002, with a new entrance designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki; part of the process involved firing 100,000 bricks to match the original fabric of the building. …
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