Béjar, Salamanca
Guadix, Granada
Olite, Navarra
The proposal the jury selected for the €12,000 first prize, was developed by the team formed by Abelardo Linares del Castillo-Valero and Elena Jiménez Sánchez, who were already awarded a prize for their project for Jaca in the 2017-2018 edition of this Competition, with the collaboration of Paloma Márquez Aguilar y Javier Barangua Gómez-Calero.
The project proposes opening up the public spaces surrounding the Church of Santa María, the Jewish Museum and several buildings from the golden age of the textile industry, toward the spectacular views of the Cuerpo de Hombre river valley. Additionally, it connects the existing urban fabric in an attempt to reactivate the environment; the project includes the construction of a new residence around a patio surrounded by galleries inspired by the local tradition.
Because of the excellent quality of the other submitted proposals, the jury, formed by representatives of the various participating institutions and of the very municipality, also decided to award three honourable mentions, with a prize of €2,000 each. These three selected projects, all of them of great beauty, also give back the memory to the patrimonial complex, keeping alive the local character.
Having considered that none of the presented proposals responded in a satisfactory way to the aims -in their totality- linked to this location, the jury declared void with the will of including this lot again in the following competition notice. This way, the participants who wish to do so, may complete or improve their proposals and compete again within this lot.
The proposal the jury selected for the €12,000 first prize, CERQUO, was developed by the team based in Madrid formed by Estefanía Fernández-Cid Fernández-Viña, Xavier Espinós Bermejo, Lucía Espinós Bermejo and Rodrigo Toro Sánchez, who were already awarded a prize for their project for Baza in the 2017-2018 edition of this Competition.
Their project for the new building at Plaza del Fosal incorporates the typical construction characteristics of the area, without detracting from the prominence of the adjacent temple. The same virtues are found in the building proposed for the Rúa Villavieja.
Because of the excellent quality of the other submitted proposals, the jury, formed by representatives of the various participating institutions and of the very municipality, also decided to award three honourable mentions, with a prize of €2,000 each. These three selected projects, all of them of great beauty, also give back the memory to the patrimonial complex, keeping alive the trace of its history, and generating a new network of green spaces for the city.
It was published on the occasion of the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards 2019 Ceremony, as well as the inauguration of the Traditional New Architecture Exhibition in which were showed the works of the winners in both initiatives from June 12 to July 28, 2019 in the Arquería de los Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid.
Both initiatives are organized by INTBAU (the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism) and the Department of Building and Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure, with the collaboration of the Department of Beaux Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Rafael Manzano Prize and the Council of Architecture Institutes of Spain.
On Wednesday, June 12th 2019, the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Building Arts Awards laureates were presented at the Arquería of Nuevos Ministerios (Madrid).
The event was chaired by the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Pedro Saura García, by the Deputy Director of Architecture, Housing and Land, Javier Martín Ramiro, by Richard H. Driehaus, by Harriet Wennberg, Director of INTBAU, by Laureano Matas, Secretary of the Council of Architecture Institutes of Spain and by Alejandro García Hermida, Executive Director of the initiatives promoted by Driehaus in Spain and Portugal.
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