The Agbar Tower: Lighting up the Sky
Posted by Edward Dy on July 18th, 2008
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Opened in June 2005, the Torre Agbar or Agbar Tower is the creation of French architect Jean Nouvel and was inaugurated officially on September 16, 2005 by the Kings of Spain.
The Torre Agbar is a colored lighting and may be considered as one of the landmarks of Barcelona in the 21st century. The structure has more than 4,000 luminous devices use the LED technology, where 4,500, computer-controlled, L3 RGB lights serve to light up 32 floors of offices in the Agbar tower.
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“This is not a tower, a skyscraper, in the American sense. It is a more an emergence, rising singularly in the center of a generally calm city. Unlike slender spires and bell towers that typically pierce the horizons of horizontal cities, this tower is a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure,” said architect Jean Nouvel.
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