Barcelona, Spain - Kingdom of
TO MATCH FEATURE SPAIN-FORUM.
General view of Barcelona's Forum construction area including the
"jewel in the crown", a bright blue triangular building (front)
designed by Swiss architecture duo Herzog and De Meuron November 4,
2003. With raged-edged windows breaking up the 180-metre long facades
and water streaming into the interior through elongated sky-lights from
a roff-top pool, organizers hope it will be a boom for Barcelona as
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim was for Bilbao. TO MATCH FEATURE SPAIN-FORUM.
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