From the Hotel du Parc, go and see this place, example of major contemporaneous urbanization.
A neo-classic French style...
From both sides of the «neo-classical» building of Ricardo Boffil, stand two rounded buildings of Maurice Novarina, built in 1988: the architecture has taken the same proportions, except for the pillars, which are hollow In the middle of the square, the fountain by Shamai Haber is an immense inclined granite disc where the water streams.
Wanting to reconcile the great public with modern architecture, the architect Ricardo Boffil works a lot with the popular collective memory and unconsciousness, which he thinks is fed with nostalgia by the classic French architecture.
...Inspired from the Italian baroque
Here the round square is inspired by the Italian baroque architecture. The semi circular façade unites and articulates two rounded interior squares that are accessed traversing the monumental central arch, to the right the “amphitheatre square” opens over the public garden.
To the left, around the garden of the Seoul square, the Catalan architect declines the forms of classic art, but not without some humor, the capitals don’t hold anything, the glass columns are the bow-windows of the apartments, the freestone is made of pre-built cement (“flashy pastiche” or classic grandeur to forget the usual, the commentators are shared).
