THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
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THE COMPETITORS
In 2003, with the aid of the professional journal Arquitectura Viva, the
Jerez town-planning department announced an international competition to
design the Flamenco City, one in which six major architectural studios competed.
Antonio Cruz & Antonio Ortiz are
the authors, amongst other works, of the Comunidad de Madrid Athletics
Stadium, the Cartuja Olympic Stadium and the additions made to the Chapin
Stadium in Jerez.
Juan Navarro Baldeweg,
currently working on a project for a park in Córdoba
on the banks of the Guadalquivir, the Canal Theatre in Madrid, the
Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos and the Music and Scenic Arts Centre
in Vitoria.
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa)
Over the past few years the SANAA studio has acquired international
fame with projects in Italy, the United States and Spain, where they carried
out the enlargements to the Valencia Modern Art Institute (IVAM).
Álvaro Siza & Juan Miguel Hernández León
Amongst the works of Alvaro Siza in Spain are to be found the Olympic
Village Meteorological Centre in Barcelona, the Galicia Contemporary Art
Centre in Santiago de Compostela, the Rectorate of Alicante University,
and the Communications Faculty Building on the Compostela Campus.
Juan Miguel Hernández León is the author of the restoration
work carried out on the Government Vice-presidency building at the Moncloa
and the casa de las Viudas in Cádiz. Together with Álvaro
Siza he forms part of the group of architects and town-planners which
won the tender to remodel the Prado-Recoletas axis.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra
currently working on the Sea Museum project in Genova and the National
Archaeological Maritime Museum in Cartagena, the Court House in Ciudad
Real and the Congress and Exhibition Hall in Jerez, amongst others.
Herzog & De Meuron
have carried out amongst other projects the Ricola department stores in
Laufen and Mulhouse and the Tate Modern in London. They are currently working
on the Allianz Arena in Munich and the central building of Forum Barcelona
2004, future projects include the National Stadium in Peking
THE JURY
PRESIDENT:
PEDRO PACHECO HERRERA
MEMBERS:
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
A British architect, author of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-upon-Thames,
has designed many projects including the extension to the Neues Museum
in Berlin and the public library in Des Moins, Iowa. In Spain they have
recently designed his own house in Corrubedo, remodelled the monumental
façade of Teruel, and is going to build houses in Madrid and the
Hall of Justice in Barcelona. He was also the president of the jury for
the last edition of the international Mies van der Rohe award.
LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO
Architect and Lecturer in the Projects Department at Madrid Architectural
School, he is editor of both the Arquitectura Viva and AV Monografías
journals, as well as the weekly architecture column in the El País
newspaper. Course Director of the Menéndez & Pelayo International
University, he has been appointed jury member for the Mies van der Rohe
in addition to winning other international and national prizes, author
of La Quimera Moderna, El Fuego and La Memoria.
VITTORIO MAGNAGO LAMPUGNANI
Italian architect and historian, former director of the IBA in Berlin
and ex-director of the Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt and the journal
Domus. President of the Mies van der Rohe and member of the jury for the
Praemium Imperiale, he has taught at several European and American universities
and is currently vice-deacon of the ETH in Zurich. Amongst the works he
has published is the Architectural Dictionary of the 20 th Century
DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
French architect, author of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
in Paris for which he was awarded the Mies van der Rohe international
prize in 1997, and president of the French Institute of Architecture.
The most recent competitions he has been awarded include the rehabilitation
of the Mariinsky Opera House in St Petersburg and the Olympic Tennis Centre
in Manzanares Park, Madrid. The remodelling of the Teresitas beach in
Tenerife and a hotel in Barcelona are amongst future projects here in
Spain.
THE RESULT
In Jerez, on January 9th 2004, the jury met to choose the winner of the
international architectural competition to design the future Flamenco City,
presided over by Pedro Pacheco Herrera and made up of David Chipperfield,
Luis Fernández-Galiano, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Dominique
Perrault, with Manuel Collado as secretary..
Subsequent to public exhibition of the projects presented by the authors,
the jury retired to deliberate and commented on:
• The exceptional quality of all of the proposals
• The meticulous development of the programme set out in the
conditions of the competition in each and every one of the projects
• The correctness of the solutions provided by all six projects
to the problems arising from the establishment of a cultural facility of
the characteristics of the Flamenco City within such a complex urban context
as the historic old quarter of Jerez.
The debate was then opened, during which the proposals put forward by the
design teams of Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, and Álvaro
Siza & Juan Miguel Hernández León were the ones most highly
valued by the jury, as being representative of two clear tendencies shown
by the group of projects as a whole: in the first case the concept of a
structure which is open and yet at the same time integrated with public
spaces, and in the latter a solution which is more compact and closed.
Finally, and with a unanimous vote, the jury decided to name the project
designed by Herzog & de Meuron as winner of the competition to build
the Flamenco City called by the Jerez Town Planning Department
Jerez, 10th January 2004
