The building, which will be the first work by Barozzi Veiga to be built in the city of Barcelona, will deal with the conversion of land currently occupied by a car park, between the streets Wellington, Cerdeña and Avenida Icária, approved last March by the Barcelona City Council's Urban Planning Commission.
The winning project, which aims to be an architectural landmark for the city, will house more than 500 researchers and some sixty research groups from four BIST centres (CRG, IBEC, ICN2, and IRB Barcelona) and will have a built-up area of nearly 25,000 m² distributed over several floors and dedicated to multidisciplinary research.
The jury also highly valued the quality of the proposal put forward by the Moneo Brock / Baas / CasaSolo team, which was the runner-up in the competition, for its efforts to relate the project to its surroundings and for the organisation of the ground plan, with an off-centre interior courtyard that would allow for generating spaces of various dimensions. The other three finalists in the competition were Pich-Aguilera / 2BMFG Arquitectes / JC Ingenieros, BIG+IDOM, and Woods Bagot.
The winning project, which aims to be an architectural landmark for the city, will house more than 500 researchers and some sixty research groups from four BIST centres (CRG, IBEC, ICN2, and IRB Barcelona) and will have a built-up area of nearly 25,000 m² distributed over several floors and dedicated to multidisciplinary research.
The jury also highly valued the quality of the proposal put forward by the Moneo Brock / Baas / CasaSolo team, which was the runner-up in the competition, for its efforts to relate the project to its surroundings and for the organisation of the ground plan, with an off-centre interior courtyard that would allow for generating spaces of various dimensions. The other three finalists in the competition were Pich-Aguilera / 2BMFG Arquitectes / JC Ingenieros, BIG+IDOM, and Woods Bagot.
