Torre La Sagrera
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Torre La Sagrera also Sagrera Tower is a skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...

 that is under construction in Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Spain
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. Will have 148 metres and 34 floors, which will become the third tallest building in Barcelona behind Torre Mapfre
Torre Mapfre
Torre Mapfre is a skyscraper in the Port Olímpic , the maritime neighborhood of the Old City of Barcelona in Spain. It is named after its owner, Mapfre, an insurance company....

 and Hotel Arts
Hotel Arts
The Hotel Arts is a 44-story, 483 room luxury hotel on the seafront of Barcelona, in Catalonia.Contrary to popular belief, it was not built to service the 1992 Summer Olympics, though its construction was part of the big changes underwent by the city to prepare the Games. It remains one of the...

, and sixteenth of Spain.

The building will be located at the end of the Rambla de Prim (Railway Triangle Sagrera Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...

), giving the streets of the Via Trajan, Josep Verneda Soldevila and the way in the future Barcelona Sagrera railway station is expected to be the largest of Spain. Next to the tower, which is planned to use to house offices, there will be a public park and a museum of transportation. The tower will have about Sagrera construction costs of 250 million euro
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