The contest of ideas has brought a unique project that will change the environment.
The new town hall in Meruelo demonstrates the ability that may be of public architecture to create unique references anywhere without pharaonic investments. The project, designed by young architect Alberto Montes, will be completed with the demolition of the old municipal house and remodeling of the House of Culture and the Market Square. The set will aesthetically homogeneous space will radically change the look of San Miguel de Meruelo at a cost not to exceed 2.5 million euros.
Commitment to creative architecture with unique buildings that become a reference aesthetic of his time belongs to the realm of public advocacy at the private. While in the latter prevail practicality and cost, contest of ideas for new public buildings often lead to more imaginative and daring projects.
Something that is not excluded rural and relatively modest works. The proof is in the new town hall of Meruelo.
The project, designed by the young Cantabrian architect Alberto Montes, where he won the ideas competition held by the Corporation, so unusual hits of its proposal, closer to a modern art museum to nondescript administrative buildings or replicas of traditional architecture that often serve as a reference for these official buildings.
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