Diagonal Mar I the Front Maritim of Poblenou

Diagonal Mar I the Front Maritim of Poblenou is a neighborhood inside the Sant Marti district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The place between the seafront, Sant Adria de Besos and the Besos river became formerly made of slums and poor regions surrounding the neighbourhoods of La Mina, El Maresme and Poblenou. Under the brand new name Diagonal Mar, in connection with its proximity to the sea and Avinguda Diagonal, preservation started taking area within the past due 90s. Still ongoing, this has been one of the maximum objectives city regeneration schemes, and additionally one of the most controversial and a perceived departure from Barcelona's nicely-established city model.

The real property employer Hines turned into in fee of maximum relevant decisions about urbanism in the area, even though it become ESPAIS Promocions Immobiliaries, a nearby real estate developer, who developed most people of the residential towers, along with Illa de la Llum, Illa del Bosc, Illa del Cell and Illa del Mar. This has been criticised by using famend local architects together with Oriol Bohigas, Juli Capellas or Josep Maria Montaner or urbanism scholar Llatzer Moix. Most maintenance within the area become prepared in time for the 2004 Cultural Forum, which passed off inside the International Convention Centre of Barcelona CCIB.