Hotel Santos Porta Fira de L'Hospitalet, designed by architect Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos, led by Fermín Vázquez, and built by FCC, was officially opened on 22 June. The hotel has required a total investment of over 90 million euro and created more than 150 jobs, as explained by José Luis Santos, president of the hotel chain.

This designer hotel, with a total floor area of 34,688 square metres, 28 floors and 320 rooms, stands 117 metres tall. Shaped like a lotus blossom, with a profile that changes depending on the viewer's standpoint, the building is a striking sight clothed in a latticework of bright red aluminium pipes. Because of the relationship between ball-and-socket joints, aluminium pipes and structure, the design clings to the entire façade in a smooth, orderly way, expressing rotation, translation and growth as it rises in height.

The project, which encompasses the hotel building and the Realia office building, stands next door to the Gran Vía de la Fira de Barcelona fairgrounds and has set for itself the priority of becoming the gateway to the city from El Prat Airport. Although the buildings in the complex are shaped differently, as a whole they achieve a harmonic, complementary relationship.