Matadero Cultural Center of Madrid wins the FAD Architecture Prize 2012.
For the first time the FAD Architecture Prize has not fallen on a particular work of finalists provided as a somewhat atypical situation that comes to recognize the set of interventions carried out there, a set of over one hundred thousand square meters dedicated to the creation contemporary, composed of different interventions and buildings, two of which (the Ship of Music and the Nave 16) were among the finalists. Slaughterhouse has been awarded the entire proposal, by experimentation on a cultural level but also by its respect for the existing industrial architecture, with a minimum of foreign ownership in some interventions resolved with "rigor and authenticity", as highlighted by the jury .
Madrid also has been the FAD Award City and Landscape, which went to the ambitious transformation of Madrid Rio, which has recovered hundreds of acres for public use, "a new urban landscape that once segregated neighborhoods surely giving them a new urban quality that revitalizes tissues."
The 54th edition of these prizes has become a beacon of excellence in peninsular architecture. They were founded in order to promote the currents of the avant-garde and today still maintain the commitment to foster the principal values of architecture and interior design.
FAD Interior Design Award went to the restaurant Tondeluña of Logrono, and the Ephemeral has been for the "Magnolia", a proposal from architect Joseph Adrião on Christmas lights dodged the topics associated with those dates.
At XLIV FAD Awards of Architecture and Interior have been made this year a total of 518 works, of which 283 belong to the category of Architecture, Interior Design 87 to, 54 to the City and Landscape, 53 to Intervention Ephemeral and 41 to the Thought and Criticism, whose winners were announced in May.
The categories are: Architecture, Interior Design, City and Landscape and Ephemeral Interventions. The judging panel was formed by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra as president and by Marta Cervelló, Ignasi Forteza, Victoria Garriga, Ines Lobo, José Maria Sánchez García, Pere Serra and Cesc Solà as vocals. The jury of the Criticism and Thought Award was formed by Toni Marí as president and by Ricardo Devesa and Octavio Rofes as vocals.
In this edition, it have been selected 36 finalist (21 in the category of Architecture, 5 in the category of Interior Design and 4 in the category of Ephemeral Interventions). All these works are shown in FADexpo until September 22nd.
The prize-giving ceremony of the FAD Awards has served to finish the different acts of FADfest, which has been running since last June 26th.
Organisation: ARQUIN-FAD
ARQUIN-FAD patrons: Icub, Gisa, Incasol and the Association of Quantity Surveyors and Building Engineers of Barcelona.
ARQUIN-FAD collaborators: Actiu, Alape, Basf, Architects' Association of Catalonia, Dornbracht, Instituto Camoes, Ingenieros JG, Lamp, Technal, Trespa and Ulma.
