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Given the desire to know the missing, unpublished or modified important projects of the architect Enric Sagnier in Barcelona, I am going to give a small brushstroke of the most important.
In July 1904, the floating pavilion, the Club's headquarters, was moved to the Atarazanas wharf, in front of Customs, near the Columbus monument.
In 1910, the management decided to move the headquarters to the mainland, on land reclaimed from the sea, next to the original Barcelona Maritime Station.
To do this, a competition was called in which several architects participated. The winning project corresponded to the architect Eduard Ferrés i Puig, but the high cost of the construction works led the club members to switch to the project presented by Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia.
The Barcelona Fronton was built in 1892 in what at that time were the outskirts of the city, on Calle Diputación 415-417, between Sicily and Sardinia. It was the first pediment inaugurated in Barcelona and it occupied an area of about two hundred thousand square palms.
It was built in 1904 by Enric Sagnier commissioned by Antonio López y López, Marqués de Comillas, on Paseo de Gracia, on the occasion of King Alfonso XIII's visit to Barcelona on April 6, 1904.
The Pavilion of the Provincial Councils of the Universal Exposition of 1929, was also known as the Palace of the Provincial Councils. It was located between Avenida del Marqués de Comillas and Avenida de Montanyans, in front of Plaza de la Hidráulica. There is currently the Ceres fountain and the current Sant Jordi square.
In the pavilion there was information from all the provincial councils. It was built in the Gothic style, with a concave-shaped main façade, presided over by the Royal, Barcelona Catalunya and León shields, with a central tower and two lateral bodies and a crenellated crest. The building ended with some towers at the ends. On the façade were the royal coat of arms and those of Catalonia, León and Barcelona.
Enric Sagnier carried out another project to urbanize an area of Miramar, which was never carried out. He worked on it together with Augusto Font Carreras, the architect who designed the original Las Arenas bullring, the Palau de les Heures (also known as Casa Gallart), the completion of the Gothic façade of the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia with the inclusion of the dome and the Café Restaurant Maison Dorée, at 7 Plaza de Catalunya).
The French Chapel on Calle Bruc, designed by Enric Sagnier y Villavecchia, was inaugurated on October 6, 1912. It was ordered to be built by order of the Marist Brothers to be able to provide religious services to the French colony settled in Barcelona.
It was demolished in 1973 to build an apartment building. It was replaced by a new chapel on Anglí de la Bonanova street.
The primitive Hotel Colon, built in Plaza de Catalunya with Paseo de Gracia, in 1902, in a modernist style with a ground floor and two floors, was the work of Andreu Audet.
Subsequently, the owners contacted Enric Sagnier to extend it three more floors and turn it into a Noucentista style façade. It was inaugurated in 1918. The hotel was at full capacity during the republic.
With the arrival of the civil war, it was first occupied by the revolutionary forces and, later, by the PSUC, which settled there. With the end of the war and the destruction of the building, its owners, faced with the acquisition offer from Banco Español de Crédito, decided to sell it.
This building was demolished for the most part in 1970, currently only the pavilion dedicated to the Wad-Ras prison remains standing.
