The new roof, inspired by the gracefulness of a veil in the wind, connects the volumes on both sides of the cloister and oversails the ruins to shelter them from the weather. The inner courtyard had a residual role, but now it distributes the spaces
Taking advantage of its strategic position on the border of old town and the new city, the project seeks to become the green heart of Pontevedra. The light roof, inspired by the original one, articulates the whole complex and shelters the public area
Part of Santa Clara street is integrated into the proposal to open the museum to the city without forgetting the cloistered nature of the convent. New construction work is minimal, because most of the intervention reorganizes and highlights the old b
The east wing is expanded and containedly renovated with the aim of preserving the convent’s typology as much as possible. The west gallery for its part is more noticeably transformed into a two-story climate-controlled archaeological center...
The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the international competition to refurbish, restore, and expand St.Clare’s Convent as the new home of the Pontevedra Provincial Museum. Their scheme was selected over those of the ot
Based in Madrid and (Safat) Kuwait, the firm headed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan AGi Architects won a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda to find designers for projects
The main campus of Vigo University is 10 km from the urban center, and with the purpose of expanding its activity, the institution decided to refurbish three buildings in the city. A wood volume rests on the stone supports, which are the only existin
The football stadium of A Gandareira sits at the edge of the urban center of Villa de Bandeira, in the municipality of Silleda, facing the rural landscape. Serving a local sports club and its school, the facility is designed to take in usual traffic,
The practice of Gustavo Díaz and Lucas Díaz – working out of offices in A Coruña and Madrid – and that of Naiara Montero and Jon Montero (TAU) – A Coruña and Barcelona – together designed a new judiciary building for the city of Pontevedra. The 23,48
The project named ‘Batea en tierra’ proposes a continuous complex with a landscaped slope, a linear pergola over the existing premises, and a tilted roof for Capitanía; a large open and permeable ombrière defines the new image of Sanxenxo... [+]
The Madrid firm Paredes Pedrosa has won the idea competition for Plaza del Mar, a square in the Galician city of Sanxenxo, and its immediate surroundings. Carme Pinós and Emilio Tuñón came in second and third. There were 35 entries in all. The winnin
The project proposes a new plaza that generates a covered place with access to the different programs held in the complex. This promenade becomes a performative space, and all the public interaction areas open up to it... [+]
The complex, built primarily with concrete, metal, and glass, is organized by three distinctive elements: a unifying basement that houses the congress center, an industrial building with versatile spaces, and an office tower to round off the ensemble
Very clear guidelines are established for the buildings of the vacant plots and to cover the existing houses in the central block. The metallic structure, painted in the color of the primers in boats, is combined with concrete and glass... [+]
An orthogonal grid is distributed throughout the site and a continuous skin of perforated metal, which evokes the materials of the automobile industry, covers the entire volume, connecting the two pieces beneath the residential building... [+]
On a site of such diverse conditions, the design sought a unified image adjustable to different uses. To this end, the ensemble is wrapped in a light and transparent shell that allows seeing and filters views, protects from the sun, and warms up the
A curvilinear volume of glass and aluminum runs through the plot incorporating the existing apartment building, to which it adds terraces and a second facade, transparent and accessible. In this way, a unitary and easily readable image is created...
The proposal takes the river’s edge as reference and proposes a promenade in continuity with the interiors of the building, which is attached to the existing medians tracing a curve. The key point is the covered atrium that links the park and the ave
To improve the public space inside the block, the river is reconsidered as an ecological axis recovering its natural hydromorphology, an autochthonous forest is introduced, and openings are arranged to connect the riverbank with the city... [+]
The Navarre practice of Antonio Vaíllo and Juan Luis Irigaray has won the competition organized by Vigo's Duty-Free Zone Consortium for the construction of the World Car Center. The project comprises two new buildings and an intervention on an existi
The restoration of the river beach and fortress environment of Goián is executed with a continuous retaining wall that varies in height to adapt to different functions.
In this house of reduced dimensions located in the old part of the city of Baiona, the different rooms are defined by a series of variations in proportion, form, type of ceilings, and materials used.
Colonizing the granite walls of an old Galician farm construction with several new structures of light build, the dwelling echoes the spirit of the place.
With their proven grasp of the contexts of places, the husband-and-wife architecture team of Ignacio Pedrosa and Ángela García de Paredes has won the ideas competition for the refurbishment of Praza do Mar in Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) and its immediate s
Rafael Moneo ha presentado su proyecto para transformar la Praza do Rei en Vigo. En ella se encuentra actualmente la torre del Ayuntamiento, de 1972, que será derribada para construir un nuevo edificio consistorial que integre la Gerencia de Urbanism
Cinco jóvenes arquitectos madrileños —L. Alío, S. Cifuentes, J.G. Valencia, A. Marín, M. Rama y S. Zapata—, agrupados como Loop, son los ganadores del concurso de ideas convocado por el Concello de Pontevedra para el futuro Museo de Historia, donde
Los almacenes para pescadores construidos por Jesús Irisarri y Guadalupe Piñera en el puerto de Cangas de Morrazo, a la entrada de la ría de Vigo, ganaron el premio FAD 2008 en la categoría Paisaje y Ciudad. Se trata de 36 módulos de dos plantas de a
Desde su fundación en 1927 por la Diputación Provincial para completar la labor de la Sociedad Arqueológica de Pontevedra, el Museo de Pontevedra ha ido creciendo, repartiendo sus bienes entre cinco sedes: las ruinas del convento gótico de Santo Domi
