The elevator tower Halo Vigo is crowned with a ring that can be seen from different parts of Vigo. Located on Calle Serafín Avendaño, the new urban lift connects the Galician city’s intermodal station – a project of the firm Morphosis, led by Thom Ma
The ‘H.E.Co, Híbrido Ecolóxico Cohabitacional’ scheme drawn up by Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente has won the ideas competition for a mixed-use building in the Barreiro neighborhood of the city
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 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 barrié de la Maza Foundation takes up the courtyard and the small bay, parallel to the street, of a building designed by the architect Manuel Gómez Román in 1919. The reduced dimensions of the site, a rectangle measuring 25x15 meters, have been c
The project presented to the competition held in 2005 foresaw the construction of a space able to undergo changes depending on its use, a space adaptable to different activities and needs. Once completed, the building has proven a flexibility that pe
Located at one of the ends of the centralarea of the campus, west of the lecture hall, the construction of the Rector’s building is part of the third phase of the Special Plan for the new development of the As Lagunas-Marcosende University Campus in
El nuevo campus de la universidad de Vigo se compone de tres volúmenes alargados y de poca altura, concebidos como barreras protectoras que aíslan el recinto de la autopista y permiten disfrutar de la naturaleza de la ría. Una torre de siete plantas
From the coast of the most southern of the Rías Bajas, the city of Vigo renders tribute to the ocean with the Sea Museum. Over the Punta de Muiño – which marks the point where the harbor area ends and the beaches begin –, the museum mediates between
As so many other coastal towns, Vigo found it necessary to transform its harbor in orderto adapt to the new demands of sea traffic and, as a result of this process, a series of docks now fallen into disuse will make it possible to recover the connect
On the corner f Areal and Oporto streets stands the building that houses the office of the rector of the University of Vigo, but once was the city’s military command headquarters. The university had out grown the area available for administrative use
La biblioteca es un ensamble de prismas oblongos que, anclado en una ladera de marcada pendiente, se recorta contra el verde fondo del paisaje gallego. El nivel de cornisa del edificio se encuentra aproximadamente a la misma cota que la carretera que
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
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
