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Concepción
Market was built in 1888 in the centre of Barcelona,
in the Eixample District, in an isolated building
between the streets of Aragó, València,
Bruc and Girona, with the main accesses through
Aragó and València; it spanned a
surface area of 4,010 m2, 105
metres long and 38 wide.
The new architectural possibilities of iron
technology demonstrated by Paton in the Crystal
Palace of London (1851) were soon leveraged
by Catalan builders, who began to use this
new material for its advantages as a structural
element. Moreover, a study of new building
methods and wrought iron began to define a
formal vocabulary of metal architecture in
the last three decades of the 19th
Century.
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