The archery facilities of the Barcelona Olympic Games, by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, are one of the most iconic works of Catalan architecture of recent decades. At the same time, it is also a paradigmatic case of the pending path for administrations to fully value contemporary architecture and, where appropriate, to patrimonialize it. Following the collapse that occurred in Carmel in 2005, the public company GISA demolished one of the two pavilions of the building in 2008, the competition one, during the works to build a new maneuvering tunnel for L5 of the metro, with the commitment to rebuild it. A commitment, until now, unfulfilled. But now the solution could come through the municipal route: the plenary session of the Barcelona City Council has just approved, with the abstention of the PSC and the rest of the favorable votes, a proposal by BComú to renovate the changing rooms and the bar of the football and rugby fields of La Teixonera and integrate the competition building of archery, whose pieces have been abandoned on a nearby plot for seventeen years. But as ARA has learned from sources familiar with the case, the municipal government has no intention of rebuilding the building.

Architect Carme Pinós (Barcelona, ​​1954) often speaks of the weight that "responsibility" has on her vision of the craft. Buildings must fulfill the function for which they are designed and, at the same time, must poetically transcend it. They must also create the city, and when they are in rural and natural settings, they must create the landscape. All of this is abundantly present in the building she unveiled this Friday, a new winery for La Horra, in Burgos. The entire production area is buried underground, also for reasons of energy efficiency; and the grape harvest and social areas stand out and are immersed in the landscape.