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About RCR Weathering Steel

RCR Arquitectes — the Catalan Pritzker laureates from Olot — build almost entirely in coarse weathering (Corten) steel, inside and out. The plate oxidizes to a dark rust-charcoal and is set against dramatic black voids, echoing Pierre Soulages' near-black outrenoir at the Rodez museum.

This system distills that material language: a soot-dark steel-void ground, matte aged-rust surfaces, hard folded edges, and spare condensed technical type. Nothing glossy, nothing bright — only oxidized mass and deep shadow.

Learn more about the RCR Weathering Steel style

Origin
Catalonia, Spain (Olot) and Rodez, France
Era
1990–2010 (Les Cols 2002–05; Soulages Museum competition 2008, opened 2014); Pritzker 2017
Key figures
Rafael Aranda · Carme Pigem · Ramon Vilalta · Pierre Soulages
Movements
Catalan contemporary architecture · weathering-steel monumentality · landscape-integrated minimalism

RCR Weathering Steel design spec

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Typography

Roboto CondensedHeadings
IBM Plex Sans CondensedBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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