The making of the W Hotel Barcelona

The W hotel in Barcelona is a new icon and the last skyscraper to be built within Barcelona city and was built within a very intrinsic timeframe, which demanded highly creative, cost-effective solutions. With this paper, Birgit Walter will also comment on the cultural aspect of the lighting designer’s work within Spain.

Birgit Walter, APDI, PLDA founded the design practice BMLD in Barcelona in 2001 after her eight- year stay in New York City where she was part of the team at Horton Lees Lighting Design in 1995. In 1996 she joined the prestigious American company Brandston Partnership.

Birgit takes active part in teaching as well as lecturing at conferences on lighting design and is regularly published. She is co-director of the forthcoming Lighting Design Graduate Programme at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona (UPC). She is an active member of PLDA and CIE and a founding member of APDI

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