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HABITAT TO SPEND €59.5 MILLION ON ECOURBAN OFFICES IN BARCELONA
Translated from Invertia.com
Barcelona, July 12 (EFECOM).- The real estate developer Habitat, which Bruno Figueras presides over, is investing €59.5 million in the Ecourban offices project in Barcelona, with a total area of 33,156 square meters.
The project, which features a sustainable design by architect William McDonough, is located in the zone that the City council of Barcelona denominates 22@, a new district for technological companies that the municipality impels in the district of the Poblenou.
"We think that this it is a project that will help to propel 22@," Bruno Figueras indicated today in a press conference.
The Ecourban complex is distributed in three buildings: two offices of 6,498 square meters and 9,227 square meters, and an "apart-hotel" with 87 apartments and 5,756 square meters at ground floor. The group of buildings will also count on two underground levels with 316 parking units.
In today's public exhibition the architect responsible for the project, William McDonough, has exalted the sustainable characteristics of the project, which features solar panels, ceilings covered with vegetation, and shaded zones for the air to run freely all the way through the building.
William McDonough stated, "This building responds to a sustainable construction philosophy that understands the building as an organism with its own service life."
Habitat invoices €150 million annually. In addition to Ecourban, Habitat is proceeding another ambitious project of offices in Barcelona, the D38 in the Frank Zone that anticipates the construction of more than 130,000 square meters investing €190 million. Habitat also invests €600 million in diverse housing projects in all Spain and another €100 million in the Space Sky Habitat, a complex that includes a hotel of five stars and a building of offices in Diagonal Mar, with an investment of €100 million.
In addition, it has created a hotel division, Hotels Habitat, with four hotels in operation and that anticipates investments of €190 million.
Translation by Andres Pacheco
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