Diagonal Mar i Front Marítim del Poblenou

Diagonal Mar i Front Marítim del Poblenou is a neighborhood in the Sant Martí
Sant Martí
Sant Martí , is a district of Barcelona located on its eastern side, usually numbered 10 out of the ten districts of the city.It borders the Mediterranean sea, Sant Adrià del Besòs and four other districts of the city: Ciutat Vella, l'Eixample, Horta-Guinardó and Sant Andreu.It did not become an...

district of Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

(Spain

Spain

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).

The area between the seafront, Sant Adrià de Besòs

Sant Adrià de Besòs

Sant Adrià de Besòs is a city in the comarca of the Barcelonès in Catalonia, northern Spain. It is situated at the mouth of the river Besòs, extending to both sides of the estuary. The original settlement with the parish church is on the left bank of the river, in the north of the municipal...

and the Besòs river was previously made up of slums and poor areas surrounding the neighbourhoods of La Mina

La Mina

La Mina is an album by Italian singer Mina, distributed back to back with album Minacantalucio.- Track listing :#Uappa - 3:23 - #Ti accetto come sei - 3:56 -...

, El Maresme and Poblenou

Poblenou

El Poblenou is an extensive neighborhood of Barcelona that borders the Mediterranean sea to the south, Sant Adrià del Besòs to the east, Parc de la Ciutadella in Ciutat Vella to the west, and Horta-Guinardó and Sant Andreu to the north...

. Under the new name Diagonal Mar, in reference to its proximity to the sea and Avinguda Diagonal, renovation started taking place in the late 1990s. Still ongoing, this has been one of the most ambitions urban regeneration schemes, and also one of the most controversial and a perceived departure from Barcelona's well-established urban model. The real estate company Hines

Hines Interests Limited Partnership

Hines Interests Limited Partnership is privately held international commercial real estate concern with its headquarters located in the Williams Tower in Uptown Houston, Texas...

was in charge of most relevant decisions about urbanism in the area. This has been criticised by renowned local architects such as Oriol Bohigas

Oriol Bohigas

Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola is a Catalan Spanish architect and urban planner. He is partner in the architecture office MBM.From 1980 until 1984 he has been the Director of Planning of the City of Barcelona....

, Juli Capellas or Josep Maria Montaner or urbanism scholar Llàtzer Moix. Most renovation in the area was ready in time for the 2004 Cultural Forum

2004 Universal Forum of Cultures

The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures - was a 141-day international event that took place in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from May 9 to September 26, 2004.-History:...

, which took place in the area. It includes Catalunya's largest shopping center Centre Comercial Diagonal Mar , as well as Parc de Diagonal Mar, designed by Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles Moya was a Spanish Catalan architect. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1978. After establishing his reputation with a number of collaborations with his first wife Carme Pinós, the couple separated in 1991...

and Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue is an Italian architect. She lives and works in Barcelona.-Education:In 1989 she graduated in Venice from the "Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia" in Italy....

Beaches

Beaches in Diagonal Mar are family oriented and more quiet then downtown beaches. Proximity to the nudist beaches closer to the city does however bother some visitors. The two beaches located in Diagonal Mar are La Mar Bella and La Nova Mar Bella.

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