Studio Odile Decq has completed a 27-story luxury residential tower in Barcelona, featuring curved balconies that are colored red on the upper floors. The Antares tower contains 88 high-end apartments and is situated in a seaside location at the beginning of the city’s Avinguda Diagonal, next to the Telefonica tower designed by EMBA.
Studio Odile Decq won an invited competition in 2015 to design the building, which had already been partly constructed prior to the financial crisis of 2008. Working within constraints imposed by the existing structure and strict building codes, the Paris-based architecture office proposed a landmark structure that recalls the organic shapes of some of Barcelona’s best-known buildings. Drawing on the artistic and architectural legacy of former Barcelona residents like Joan Miró and Antoni Gaudí, the design for Antares tower features flowing balconies that lend the building a sense of dynamism. The balconies were created by extending each floor of the existing structure so they cantilever beyond the façades. The stacked, curving planes change the perception of the building when viewed from different angles.
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