Breaking news: Ricardo Bofill, the Spanish architect behind the Walden 7 apartment building in Catalonia, has passed away at the age of 82.
The news of Bofill’s death today was announced by his studio Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), which shared three old portraits of the architect on its Instagram.
Bofill founded his studio RBTA in 1963. Its best-known projects include Walden 7 and the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate in Manzanera.
Other key projects by the studio in Spain are Castell de Kafka, the National Theater of Catalonia and La Fábrica – the RBTA headquarters and home of Bofill and his family.
More recently, his studio completed the W Barcelona Hotel, also in Spain, and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco.
More to follow.
The portrait of Bofill is by Xuan_95 via Shutterstock.
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