Gas Natural Building, also known as Mare Nostrum Tower, is an

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skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

located in the

La Barceloneta La Barceloneta () is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The neighborhood was constructed during the 18th century for the residents of the Ribera neighborhood who had been displaced by the construction ...

neighbourhood of the

Ciutat Vella Ciutat Vella (, meaning in English "Old City") is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ''Ciutat Vella'' is nestle ...

district in

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. It was the headquarters building of the Spanish company

Naturgy Naturgy Energy Group S.A''.'', formerly ''Gas Natural Fenosa'' (), is a Spanish multinational natural gas and electrical energy utilities company, which operates primarily in Spain. The company's administrative headquarters are in Barcelona, while ...

, formerly known as ''Gas Natural'', until 2019 when the company legal headquarters were moved to Madrid.

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The Gas Natural Building was designed by the architects

Enric Miralles Enric Miralles Moya (12 February 1955 – 3 July 2000) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1978. After establishing h ...

and

Benedetta Tagliabue Benedetta Tagliabue (born 24 June 1963) is an Italian architect. She lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Education Tagliabue was born in Milan, Italy. In 1989, she graduated in Venice from the " Università Iuav di Venezia" in Italy. Presentl ...

in the high-tech architectural style. It was completed in 2005, and officially inaugurated in 2008. It has 20 floors, and rises . It has an innovative and distinctive image, because the building has two lower horizontal glazed blocks protruding and

cantilever A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is supported at only one end. Typically it extends from a flat vertical surface such as a wall, to which it must be firmly attached. Like other structural elements, a canti ...

ed out from the main tower. It is located near the seafront, and to the southwest of two other La Barceloneta skyscrapers, the

Hotel Arts The Hotel Arts is a 44-storey, 483 room luxury hotel on the seafront of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is operated by Ritz-Carlton. History Contrary to popular belief, it was not built to service the 1992 Summer Olympics, though its constr ...

and the

Torre Mapfre Torre Mapfre is a skyscraper in the Port Olímpic (Olympic Port), the maritime neighborhood of the Old City of Barcelona in Spain. It is named after its owner, Mapfre, an insurance company. Also present in the tower are: Haufe Group, Kantox, ...

. In 2019, Natury sold to

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the Mare Nostrum tower.

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Skyscraper office buildings in Barcelona Headquarters in Spain Ciutat Vella Office buildings completed in 2005 Towers completed in 2005 2005 establishments in Catalonia 2000s in Barcelona Enric Miralles buildings High-tech architecture Modernist architecture in Barcelona {{Catalonia-struct-stub

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