Collserola Tower
SIR NORMAN FOSTER & Ass.
Location : Barcelona, Spain. Date of completion : 1992. Client : Municipality of Barcelona. Architect : Sir Norman Foster & Associates. Scheme : Telecommunications tower, restaurant, observation, platform, and parking lot. Photography : John Edward Linden.
The projec is a mixture of a traditional television tower with concrete coloumn and metal masts supporting the radio antennae themselves, all passing trough a high tech filter charateristic of the architect.
The tower combines three basic elements : a concrete coloumn, 4.5 m (15 ft) in diameter and 209 m (686 ft) high; a central body with 13 platforms, the height of a 23 story building, which houses the electronic equipment; and the cables that support the structure.
The communications tower, designed by Norman Foster, involved a complex engineering operation. Situated on one of the hills in the Collserola range, the structure occupies 10 ha (25 acres) of land situated 448 m (1470 ft) above sea level. The tower itself occupies only 3.5 ha (8.5 acres), while the rest of the site is a huge parking lot.
(adapted from The World of Contemporary Architecture XX)
The projec is a mixture of a traditional television tower with concrete coloumn and metal masts supporting the radio antennae themselves, all passing trough a high tech filter charateristic of the architect.
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