22@ Barcelona project is converting formerly industrial Poble Nou area into an innovative district now housing intensive knowledge based activities: it is the city’s most important project of the last years in terms or urban transformation and infrastructure creation and large amounts of both public and private resources are being invested.

Many important architectural firms are developing projects that are changing the face and the mood of the city and astonishingly transforming Barcelona urban landscape. These firms’ proposals are sowing the city with new shapes, colors and textures that I had not seen through my camera’s viewfinder for years.

I have been photographing many of 22@ projects since year 2007, specially Blanch + Conca Arquitectura works (Melon District Hotel, Diagonal 199, Pere Quart Building, ILlacuna Building …), and projects by David Chipperfield, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, b720, Cloud 9 and BAAS Architects.

There are still many interesting works in progress that I will add to my gallery as soon as I photograph them. Patience is required when you are in architectural photography …

I decided to portray Enric Ruiz Geli & Cloud 9 Architects Barcelona MediaTIC Building as the light and elastic volume I found when I first planned my photographs on location.

In order to capture the precise image I had in mind, I looked for a point of view where the metallic structure that frames the building and supports its suspended galleries was shown as both as resolute and delicate and on a proportion not so heavy to fade the complexity and subtle movement on the main facade elements.

The sunset light coming from nowhere draws transparency and gloss on the building front, simplifies the shapes on the image and gives it a distinctive cold cast in blues and greens.

September is here, autumn is getting closer and a new season starts today. Seasons may sometimes look alike, but I feel this one is going to be very different with amazing projects, assignments and ideas to explore. Just to begin this brand new season, I have uploaded some recent photographs for you to my gallery that you don’t have already seen …