Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Igualada Cemetery

A two hour train ride to 'Cemetery Nou' or Igualada Cemetery proved to be enormous fun. This cemetery was designed by the architects Enric Miralles and Carme PinĂ³s. This twentieth century Catalan architecture was constructed between 1985 and 1994 in order to replace the 'Cemetery Vell' which no longer had room. When Enric Miralles died in the year 2000, he was buried in one of the tombs and is still commemorated there by architecture students all over the world.

Later that evening, when returning to home, our entire studio attended a flaminco dance performance at the Tarantos club. The music was beautiful and the dancing was amazing. It was very inspiring to see how the dancers move to the beat and the intricate foot-work it takes to really perform such a dance.