Enor Call for Entries

Juan Santos Domingo, Museo del Agua, Lanjarón, Granada, Premio Enor 2011

The bases are out for the VI Ascensores Enor Architecture Prize 2014 for work in Spain and Portugal, including works completed between 2010 and 2013. Deadline for entries is March 15, 2014.

The two main prizes are:

• Ascensores Enor Grand Prize: 8,000 Euros
• Enor Prize for work by an architect under the age of 40: 4,000 Euros

More information:
http://www.enor.es/premio

Enor is based in Vigo, Galicia. The Prize offers a window into the profession from a perspective different from the usual centers of self-attention in Madrid or Barcelona. I served on the jury a few years ago, at the invitation of its director, the architect Carlos Quintáns.

From the bases:

Entry form:

More (FAD,Enor) Prize Finalists

The calender spins round and round and years spin by, and now the finalists for the 2011 FAD Awards have been announced. For the full list see the PDF prepared by Arquinfad. Benedetta Tagliabue headed the jury. Winners will be announced in the fall.

The finalists in the category of architecture:

A residence for seniors by the Aires Mateus brothers in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal. Photo © Fernando Guerra  FG + SG

Subsidized housing in Terrassa
Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores

Atrio Hotel, Cáceres
Mansilla + Tuñón.

House for a Photographer, Folgoso do Courel, Province of Lugo, Galicia
Carlos Quintáns
Also a special mention in the XI Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism.

Vigo Headquarters, College of Architects of Galicia
Jesús Irisarri + Guadalupe Piñera
(Subject of my article last year in Speech).

Houses in Santa Isabel, Lisbon
Ricardo Bak Gordon

Water Museum, Palencia
David Serrano Amatriain, Maier Vélez Olabarria  (MID Estudio)

Media-Tic, Barcelona
Enric Ruiz Geli  (Cloud 9)

Houses in Colonias Viladoms, Castellbell ( Barcelona)
Carlos Ferrater, Núria Ayala  (OAB) 

House R, Cabrera de Mar (Barcelona)
Arturo Frediani Sarfati

Childcare Center, Pratdip, Tarragona
David Tapias Monné, Núria Salvadó Aragonès.

Subsidized and Public Housing, El Monte Hacho, Ceuta
José Morales Sánchez, Juan González Mariscal  (Morales de Giles Mariscal)

Nuestra Señora del Rosario Public School, Murcia
Martin Lejarraga.

For diehards there is also a PDF of selected projects (runners-up to finalists).

And while I'm on the subject, the V edition of the biennial Enor Prizes has also  announced 45 finalists, chosen from 350 entries from Spain and Portugal. Winners will be presented in a ceremony next November. Here's the list, from SCALAE news (I was on the jury for Enor's last edition):

1. Centro de Saúde 
   Oleiros, A Coruña
   Ábalo Alonso arquitectos
2. Hotel Moure
   Santiago, A Coruña
   Ábalo Alonso arquitectos
3. Casa A5
   Oleiros, A Coruña
   Carlos Seoane
4. Hotel Pazo de Altamira
   Santiago, A Coruña
   Creus e  Carrasco arquitectos
5. PAAR. Parque arqueológico del arte rupestre
   Campo Lameiro, Pontevedra
   rvr arquitectos
6. Reintegración urbana do patrimonio cultural da ribeira do Traba
   A Pedra Chan, Noia, A Coruña
   Salgado e Liñares arquitectos enxeñeiros
7. College of Architects of Galicia
   Vigo, Pontevedra
   Irisarri+Piñera arquitectos
8. Casa da Maxia
   Ourense
   Trespes arquitectos
9. Centro Cívico Municipal
   Boecillo, Valladolid
   José Manuel Martinez, Inés Escudero y Fernando Nieto
10. Colegio de arquitectos y Fundación cultural del COAL
    Salamanca
    Carmen Martínez y Rodrigo Pemjean
11. Museo del agua [Also a FAD Finalist]
    Palencia
    MID estudio
12. Espacio para una sociedad Gastronómica
    Medina de Pomar, Burgos
    Carlos Pereda y Óscar Pérez
13. Centro Cultural: Biblioteca y Teatro
    Simancas, Valladolid
    Gabriel Gallegos
14. Aulario ABC Facultad de Bilogía. Universidad de León
    León
    DMG arquitectura
15. 22 viviendas sociales en alquiler para jóvenes
    Madrid [X! Biennial too]
    Mónica Alberola, Luis Díaz-Mauriño y Consuelo Martorell
16. Nave 8B. Matadero
    Madrid
    Arturo Franco Díaz
17. Oficinas Inmobiliaria Chamartín
    Madrid
    Burgos & Garrido arquitectos y Isasi & Pieltáin arquitectos
18. Auditorio y escuela de música
    Madrid
    Milla, Mira y Navarro arquitectos
19. Edificio de laboratorios y almacenes químicos en la Universidad de Alcalá
    Madrid
    Héctor Fernández Elorza
20. 132 viviendas promoción pública. Parcela 5.16. Ensanche de Vallecas
    Madrid
    Estudio Entresitio
21. Bar no jardim 9 de abril
    Lisboa
    J. Mª. Magalhaes Pavia y Nuno Sousa. ASPA
22. Casa das Caldeiras
    Coimbra
    João Mendes Ribeiro y Cristina Guedes
23. Pavilhão do Acolhimento. Escola francesa do Porto
    Porto
    Nuno Valentim y Frederico Eça
24. 12 habitaçoes unifamiliares em banda – L286
    Bom Sucesso. Óbidos
    Nuno da Graça Moura
25. 24 habitaçoes unifamiliares em banda – L158
    Bom Sucesso. Óbidos
    Nuno da Graça Moura
26. Casa em Melides
    Melides. Grándola
    Pedro Julio Guerreiro
27. Recuperación del Palacio de San Telmo para Presidencia de la Junta de Andalucía
    Sevilla
    Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra
28. Hotel y restaurante Atrio [FAD too]
    Cáceres
    Mansilla+Tuñon arquitectos
29. Valle urbano. Piscina municipal en un valle artificial
    Granada
    Diego Jiménez y Juana Sánchez
30. Reforma y ampliación de la escuela Sant Gregori
    Barcelona
    Coll-Lecrec arquitectos
31. Museo de arte contemporáneo
    Alicante
    Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office
32. Cap Progres Raval
    Badalona, Barcelona
    Bass Jordi Badía
33. Parque empresarial del Arte Sacro
    Sevilla
    Suárez Santas arquitectos
34. Vivazz. 131 viviendas protegidas  [XI Biennial First Prize Winner]
    Mieres, Asturias
    Zig Zag arquitectura
35. Escuela porche
    San Feliu de Guixols, Girona
    Bosch.Capdeferro
36. Casa Collage
    Girona
    Bosch.Capdeferro
37. 80 viviendas protección oficial [Also XI Biennial]
    Salou, Tarragona
    Toni Gironés
38. Pasarela peatonal y urbanización
    Pamplona [Also FAD Finalist]
    Carlos Pereda, Oscar Pérez e Ignacio Olite
39. Centro Cultural Cap Vermell
    Cala Ratjada, Mallorca
    Barceló-Balanzó arquitectes
40. Piscina Cubierta
    Barbate, Cádiz
    EDDEA arquitectos
41. Teatro municipal de Zafra
    Zafra, Badajoz
    Enrique Krahe
42. Museo del agua [Also XI Biennial]
    Lanjarón, Granada
    Juan Domingo Santos
43. Gimnasio 704
    Barberá del Vallés, Barcelona
    H arquitectes
44. Centro de remo y piragüismo
    Alange, Badajoz
    José Mª Sánchez
45. Centro de día y actividades comunitarias
    Palma de Mallorca
    Flexo arquitectos

Publications Update

For the record, two of my more dispersed articles this fall appeared in the following publications:



Photo © Lluís Casals

I served on the Jury this year for the IV Edition of the Enor Architecture Prizes, organized by the Enor Elevator Group of Vigo, in the northwestern region of Galicia, and open to works in Spain and Portugal. I wrote a lengthy review of the winning projects and the finalists, some 40-odd buildings in all, which appears in the book presented at the awards ceremony this November. It's an attempt to sum up the current post-crisis architectural scene (in Spanish).

Radiografía de la Actualidad
Carlos Quintáns Eiras, editor, IV Premio Ascensores Enor, Grupo Asensores Enor SA, Vigo, 2009, pages 23 - 41.

Here's a quote:
La arquitectura es una negociación entre el presente (en términos de medios y necesidades), el pasado (a través del patrimonio, el territorio, y el legado cultural colectivo) y un futuro que ella misma nos ayuda a definir. El arquitecto es un mediador en ésta negociación, y su papel es tanto interpretativo como creativo. Los proyectos reconocidos por el Premio Ascensores Enor de 2009 son ejemplares en éste sentido, demostrándonos las distintas dimensiones de una arquitectura comprometida con el proceso vital de crear el futuro.

Illustrated: The Grand Prize winner, a house on the site of a former leather-curing factory in Santiago de Compostela by by Victor López Cotelo and Juan Manuel Vargas Funes.




I was invited to contribute an essay on the SyV Tower in Madrid by Rubio + Álvarez Sala Studio, for a book published by the architects and the building team: The Tall Building Reconsidered (Repensar el Edificio en Altura).

It appears in:
Enrique Encabo Seguí, Inmaculada E. Maluenda, editors, Técnica y estrategias: Sobre la construcción de la Torre SyV, Q! Estudio, Madrid, 2009, pages 48 - 53. Text in Spanish and English.

The essay begins:
Carlos Rubio and Enrique Álvarez-Sala's approach to the design of the SyV Tower could be described as a search for formal elegance through the logical elegance of their solutions to the technical and programmatic problems that the project presents. Yet this apparently conservative approach, emphasizing formal contention and restraint rather than the liberty of formal invention now customary in contemporary architecture, has given rise to a solution of striking originality. This result is due in great part to the architects' rigorous and non-formulaic study of the problem, and their framing of the problem in its particular, contemporary context, which conditions the solution in new ways.