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, Barcelona, World Capital of Architecture this year, hosts talks, presentations, and installations over 5 days Detail of one of the installations of the central exhibition of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona / Eli Don Barcelona will welcome 10,000 professionals, students and institutional leaders as part of the World Congress of Architects 2026.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh believes we’re headed for a post-culture society, in which addiction is ubiquitous, but in which street drugs – a subject matter he’s intimately associated with through unsparing, gritty depictions of heroin use in his books – play only a small role in the plethora of addictions that modern life offers.

Resplendent 440m2 space restored at cost of €4 million, now open to rent for private events Entrance to the third floor apartment in Casa Batlló / Claudia Mauriño Casa Batlló has opened its third floor to the public for the very first time on Monday. For more than a century, the space was the last private residence in the world heritage site building, where the direct descendents of the Batlló family lived, until the last of the family lineage passed away in 2019.