A Coruña, Spain Acebo X Alonso Arquitectos culture, dance theater, education, exposition space, museum

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1 Galicia Projects 7 Created 21-Nov-08 By Marco Duran, Clermont-Ferrand, France Fundación Luis Seoane A Coruña, CREUSeCARRASCO museum SGAE Central Office Caixa Galicia Foundation 3 Xoán XXIII avenue Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia 6 Galician Center of Contemporary Art 7 Santiago de Compostela, Alvaro Siza Vieira culture, museum 4 A Coruña, Grimshaw gallery, office A Coruña, Acebo X Alonso Arquitectos culture, dance theater, education, exposition space, museum Santiago de Compostela, Antón García Abril office 2 Musical Studies Centre 8 Santiago de Compostela, Antón García Abril culture, education, university 5 Santiago de Compostela, Albert Viaplana bus station, promenade 1

2 photo: CREUSeCARRASCO photo: CREUSeCARRASCO Fundación Luis Seoane Calle de San Francisco A Coruña Luís Seoane was a lithographer and artist, born in 1910 in Argentina of Galician immigrants After the Spanish Civil War, upon returning to A Coruña, he became a leading figure within of the movement to revive Galician culture In designing a museum that represents the figure of Luís Seoane, Spanish architects CREUSeCARRASCO have seized the keys of the existing building and its surroundings in order to define the new goal: to create a suitable site for exhibition space and establish a close link between this and the public space of the city, exploiting and recovering the historical traces that still persist CREUSeCARRASCO Condemartinez photo: CREUSeCARRASCO Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00-14:00 & 17:00-20:00 / Sunday: 11:00-14:00 / Closed on Mondays 2

3 SGAE Central Office Rúa das Salvadas Santiago de Compostela The SGAE (General society of Authors and Publishers) Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, is located in Vista Alegre property, a privileged site with intermediate scale between a private garden and a public green area, from where the skyline of the historical city can be glimpsed The project for the development of the plot was designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, and contemplated the construction of a series of buildings with academic purpose, most of them unbuilt The SGAE Central Office situated in the west limit of the site completes the intervention in Vista Alegre and defines its boundaries The architectural conception of the building incorporates the spirit of the city of Santiago developing a singular identity and entering a dialogue with the history and memory of the place, as well as a close relationship with contemporary artistic language 2007 Antón García Abril SGAE Condemartinez 3

4 photo: Carlos Dias photo: Carlos Dias Caixa Galicia Foundation Cantón Grande A Coruña The financial institution Caixa Galicia has built a new art gallery overlooking the port, on a prominent location in the city It houses 4 permanent galleries on the upper floors A temporary exhibition space and an auditorium are located in the lower ground floors and there is an internet Café and art bookshop on street level Conference and dining facilities are located on the fifth and sixth floors The main elevation is clad with glass panelling, with a slender marble interlayer A transparent holographic projection screen is suspended on the street façade A full height atrium spans the longitudinal section and forms the backbone of the circulation It 'slices' the building in section and is completely glazed 2006 Grimshaw Fundacion Caixa Galicia MI_MOA photo: Carlos Dias tel of the building: 900h h Monday - Sunday, including holidays of exposition area: 1200h -1400h and 1600h h Monday to Friday 1200h h Saturday, Sunday and holidays 4

5 Xoán XXIII avenue Xoán XXIII Avenue Santiago de Compostela A memory described: On my first visit to the city of Santiago, I discovered that for the city and it's inhabitants nothing is strange Even so, when after a few years I returned to propose a design, respect and responsibility came before reserves Then I did not know yet, that working with them, they gave me their share of wisdom of centuries, so that my architecture, which is not yet history, could get in and get it's place, slowly and inevitably, on the site in the city of Santiago The hills surrounding santiago show the stones of the Old City If we pass by Xoan XXIII we can look out, between the New and Old parades, until the river bottom The project has been kept to a minimal intervention At the same parimeter, the edges of this space have been replenished earlier Now they are in stone, to become host and a place of entry 96, Urban planner Albert Viaplana Santiago de Compostela Council Condemartinez 5

6 photo: Marcela Grassi photo: Marcela Grassi Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia Avenida de Labañou A Coruña The Madrid based architecture studio of Victoria Acebo and Ángel Alonso were the winners of the Premio de Arquitectura Joven (young architects prize), and their design for the Arts Centre in A Coruña was selected 'for the interesting architectural result of a mixed programme with dance and museum realised in one volume, which has a formal clarity' Under the same name of Arts Centre, 2 different entities had found their place: a School for Dance and a Museum The lower area which has a concrete façade is where the dance school was located, and the higher floors, with a glass façade contained the spaces of the museum Without any concessions to each other, both parties were combined in a singular image, with combined organisation Due to lack of content for the building it had to close and a new inhabitant had to be found Fortunately, nowadays the building is occupied by and called the National Museum of Science and Technology photo: Marcela Grassi Acebo X Alonso Arquitectos MI_MOA 6

7 photo: Joao Gameiro Neves photo: Joao Gameiro Neves Galician Center of Contemporary Art Valle Inclán 4 E Santiago de Compostela Designed and constructed between 1988 and 1993 by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira (Pritzker Prise 1993), the building that houses the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea is located in one of the most evocative and symbolic areas of Santiago's monumental zone: alongside the Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval (currently an ethnographic museum) Siza's building reflects his admiration for rationalism and the Modernist movement, and at the same time his own personal vision of architecture and space Line, light and volume combine to produce an architecture that is both austere and serene Stone is used, linking with tradition and setting up a dialogue with the surrounding buildings, in an expression of respect for the sense of history that pervades SantiagoThe building centers on a single long axis, its inner spaces opening out along this axis like the leaves of a fan Externally, it is bounded by high walls; yet the inside is flooded with light photo: Joao Gameiro Neves 1993 Alvaro Siza Vieira Xunta de Galicia joaogameironeves Tuesday-Sunday: 11:00-20:00 Monday: Closed Handicapped Access To schedule a guided tour, you can request information by mail or by telephone Telephone: Fax:

8 Musical Studies Centre Rúa Salvadas s/n Santiago de Compostela The project of the Musical Studies Centre in Santiago de Compostela is located in the Vista Alegre plot of land One of the most relevant green areas in the surroundings of the old quarter of Santiago Described as a university park, the Vista Alegre plot of land hosts a group of buildings link to activities related to academic and research practices Here it's possible to find the House of Europe, The Advanced Studies Centre, the IDEGA (a university research centre) and the Centre for Muysical Studies, dedicated to post graduated studies for musical improvement, intended for the training of the Galician Orchestra musicians The proposal has its origins in a competition asking for the insertion of a pavilion which program demanded the development of classroom for the education of music, with defined volumetric, highness, occupation and materials, in a non-symmetric exercise, as it's set against the pavilion built by Portela, made of the same material and similar dimensions 2004 Antón García Abril AGADIC Agency Galician cultural industries All day Condemartinez 8