The Historian · Diego · Barcelona
Mercat de Santa Caterina
The roof is a statement about memory. Miralles knew what was beneath the floor. He made the new building announce what was destroyed. That's unusual honesty for a municipal building.
Built over the demolished Santa Caterina convent, demolished in 1837 during the anticlerical seizures. Miralles and Tagliabue rebuilt it in 2005 with a tiled roof that quotes the convent's memory.
— Diego, The Historian
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