In 1973, Ricardo Bofill saw the beauty in an abandoned cement factory in a turn of the century industrial complex full of silos, engine rooms and underground galleries. As our friends over at Twisted Sifter put it was “a compendium of surrealist elements - stairs that climbed up to nowhere, mighty reinforced structures that sustained nothing, pieces of iron hanging in the air; in short, huge empty spaces filled nothingness with magic.” Renovations took two years and in the end, Bofill was left with 8 of the original 30 silos which became offices, workspaces, libraries and what he calls “the Cathedral” - a huge exhibition space.
