With five meter high ceilings, high-impact panoramas, ultralight, elite services, iconic architecture … both penthouses (which could be only one if someone acquires them together and unifies them, as their promoters consider) that top off the Antares tower, in the Forum area, are already a reality that handles data of vertigo in Barcelona. Prices (separately) that are around eight million euros, the complement of a 101-meter-high panoramic infinity pool, 360-degree views that allow you to surrender to the metropolis and its contrasts, from Collserola to Montseny, or from the Sagrada Família to the skyscrapers of the area, passing – to the other side – by the modest houses of La Mina.
The pre-sale has started (There are 88 homes, including 11 for service) and a few interested parties have already signed the purchase, which in the lower floors start at 850,000 euros for about one hundred square meters. An offer that adds to the new multi-million dollar residential architecturethe local, drawing a trident with which the building was Winterthur in the Plaza de Francesc Macià and the epicurean apartment block of Mandarin Oriental, where Deutsche Bank was once located, on Passeig de Gràcia, and which is now in its final stretch.
A few steps from the Fòrum tram stop and its esplanade, the brick crisis left an eerie concrete skeleton. The number 6-8 of Rambla Prim, where Diagonal avenue is born, for years was left without a checkbook, orphaned of project and future. until Shaftesbury Asset Management took over the reins more than five years ago and trusted the groundbreaking French architect Odile Decq to give soul to the controversial construction and reinvent it as a ‘top’ residential building in the new Barcelona. The pandemic has delayed the completion of work on the highest residential tower in the Catalan capital, which will be presented in society in March, when the marketing campaign will begin.
Basement with 1,000-square-meter spa
El Periódico has visited its most unique pieces, the penthouses, located on the equivalent of two floors under a panoramic roof where residents can watch movies in the fresh air or take a dip watching the sunset. Decq, which has been inspired by that sea that shines just a few meters away to undulate the façade, breaks the mold with a white building crowned in a vibrant red, developed for this project. The basement has a whopping thousand square meters of spa, heated pool, gym, vertical garden and an oval wooden epicenter where you can practice yoga that already was presented at the Venice Biennale for its uniqueness. The common spaces are the preamble to the pisazos, which on lower floors do not vary much from the prices already established in the Diagonal Mar towers.
But of course, several decades have passed since the first skyscrapers that tore that ‘skyline’, and now Antares break more molds and show off the most spectacular penthouses in the city. Not only for its 380 meters built, with large balconies, but for its glazed cladding that turn each room and some of its sinks into a urban lookout. One could spend hours touring the Barcelona physiognomy, discovering a million corners a day. Decq says that she did not think of millionaires, or epicurean tastes, but of the home she would build for herself. He even designed the doorknobs. Every detail bears some stamp. Inside, the nuclear target further increases the imposing height of the ceilings. It is scary to think of custom curtains.
Anna Casadellà, Sales Director, is discreet about buyers, although she ensures that the interest covers both Barcelonans who have already had similar residential experiences in other countries, as well as foreign clients looking for a second or third residence in the city. Not to mention investors who think about renting. Because although locally they are stratospheric, prices are well below those of high-end residential buildings in other large international cities.
Sources of Idealista They point out that currently on their website there is no other flat that overshadows it in total price. Yes, there are more expensive pieces in the two buildings started before, but the height, views and location at the foot of the Mediterranean are what elevate them to the podium. Of course, the exclusivity and the bubble of services that they allow implies 3.5 euros per square meter per month for community expenses, and the same for the maintenance of common facilities. Between one and three parking spaces are included.
The people of Barcelona can contemplate the rotundity of the building at street level, or go a little deeper into its avant-garde lines if they go to eat at the restaurant which has just opened on its ground floor, under the leadership of the chef Romain Fornell. Its structure was so huge and complex that the architect has provided it with elements at various levels, working with “local artisans”. With impossible figures again, such as the 9.5 meters of windows that surround it, created by a local producer, who is also one of the only three in the world that works with this type of piece, he said.
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The kitchen of those low, The Grand Café Rouge, Despite the dose of design, it will be much more popular than homes. Fornell has reformulated some classics of French cuisine looking for an average ticket of 35 to 40 euros and a formula menu of 22 euros at noon, in line with current times. Undoubtedly, many of the residents of the tower will opt for their stoves, rather than lighting those at home.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com