and brought a style of its own to the houses: Modernism, a reflection of that time of great vitality and growth in the history of Barcelona.. Joan Pla (1843-1911) was a lawyer who lived at number 57 of calle Girona, and had amassed a huge fortune, as shown by the 26 houses he owned in the Eixample, in the block where La Concepció Market would be sited. Pla transferred all his land, and was subsequently by the City Council, which named an alley located in the middle of the sections that were subsequently built, after him. The project of La Concepción Market, which took its name from the nearby church, was commissioned to Antoni Rovira and Trias, an architect who had also been in charge of the market of Sant Antoni and who, as we have already seen, had also made a successful offer in the call for tenders which the City Council of Barcelona had issued for the city extension project. The work, based on a metal structure manufactured by the industrial company Sant Andreu la Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima, was officially opened in 1888, and a school for the blind was built on the lands that were left over (it later became the Music Conservatory), as well as the Mayor's Offices of the so-called District IV.     Mercat de la Concepció · Aragó, 313-317 · 08009 Barcelona · Telf: 675 693 616 info@laconcepcio.com · NIF: G58241852