The award for the architect Victor Lopez Cotelo, born in Madrid, released yesterday, was decided unanimously last Wednesday 10th of June by the Jury of the Spanish Architecture 2015 Award, assembled at the headquarters of the CSCAE. The award is the highest honor given by the institution and is granted for the rehabilitation of the former Military Hospital for the School of Architecture of Granada.
The jury wanted to highlight the strategy followed in the conversion of this historical building that has gone through several functional stages and whose current project is able to integrate the heterogeneous set under a global concept that respects and combines its complex diversity, "performing this operation with an extraordinary sense of balance, stylistic restraint and professional job".
- The jury has also agreed to award two honorable mentions: to the Building of six Resettlement Housing units in the Historical Center of Pamplona, realized by Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Oscar Pérez Silanes and to the Rehabilitation and expansion of the Castillo de la Luz in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, carried out by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano.
The jury of the Spanish Architecture Award 2015 has been led by Jordi Ludevid i Anglada, President of CSCAE, and composed by Fernando Nasarre Goicoechea, General Deputy Director of Land Policy in the Department of Architecture, Housing and Land in the Ministry of Public Works, representing the Minister, Alfonso Muñoz Cosme General Deputy Director of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain of the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets and Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Education, representing the Minister, the architect Ignacio García Pedrosa named by the full Council, Enrique Alvarez-Sala Walther, architect appointed in plenary session by the Superior Council and Algorri Eloy Garcia, General Secretary of CSCAE, acting as Secretary of the Jury.
The Spanish Architecture Award is organized by the CSCAE since 1993, to recognize the quality of those newly built works, or rehabilitation of buildings -as long as it has treated the building as an architectural unit and the result of rehabilitation configures all of it- realized by Spanish architects, which were finished in the previous biennium to the call.
Previous awards:
2013. Ex aequo Pre-school in Pamplona by Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes and Hospital Cartuja. Institute Cartuja of Advanced Techniques in Medicine of Sevilla, by José Morales and Sara de Giles.
2011. Promenade at the Poniente Beach in Benidorm by Carlos Ferrater I Lambarri and Xavier Martí I Gal.
2009. Spain Pavillion at the Expo Zaragoza 2008 by Francisco José Mangado Beloqui.
2007. Theatre Valle Inclán in Lavapiés in Madrid by Ángela García De Paredes and Ignacio G. Pedrosa.
2005. Masterplan of Vigo's Seaside by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.
2003. Concert Hall in Ciudad de León by Emilio Tuñón Álvarez and Luis Moreno Mansilla.
2001. Congress Palace of Cataluña by Carlos Ferrater Lambarri and José María Cartaña Gubern.
1999. Ex a quo Health Science University Centre of A Coruña by Manuel de las Casas Gómez and the Bus Station of Córdoba by César Portela Fernandez-Jardón.
1997. Fine Arts Museum of A Coruña by Jose Manuel Gallego Jorreto.
1995. Public School Mare de Déu in Villvana-Morella by Enric Miralles I Moya and Carme Pinos Desplat.
CREDITS.-
Project Management.- Víctor López Cotelo (Architect), J. Antonio Valdés Moreno (Quantity Surveyor.
Location.- Granada.
Investment.- 12.132.258,45 €.
Financing.- Ministry of public works [54,47%] 9.070.812,03 €, Granada University [45,53%] 7.580.589,92 €.
Dates.- 12.11.2011 - 3.03.2015.
Constructor.- Arquitectura Granada. Guamar S.A. y Covalco Grupo Constructor S.L.
Client.- Granada University.
