The eight teams, related in the order of registration in the contest are:
- Cruz and Ortiz Architects; Nieto Sobejano Architects;
- UTE B720-David Chipperfield Architects Architecture;
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) Stedebouw B.V. ;
- UTE Souto Moura Architects - Juan Miguel Hernández León - Carlos de Riaño Lozano;
- UTE Foster + Partners - Rubio Architecture; UTE Garces de Seta Bonet Arquitectes - Pedro Feducci Canosa; and
- UTE Gluckman Tang Architects - Estudio Álvarez Sala - Architecture Enguita and Lasso de la Vega.
"The last contest held for the Museo del Prado was a controversial contest of enlargement, nobody won (first prize was not awarded, obtaining accesits the Spanish Matos-Castillo and a team of Swiss architects) and the same Foster, because of the rumors, descided to witthdraw his proposal and submit a model out of competition.
That contest was repeated and won by Rafael Moneo, whose project was completed a few years ago.
"Among the bets to win the contest some are shuffled, obviously all have options, but some stand out more than others. For example, Chipperfield is a remarkable competitor who could overshadow the current expansion of Moneo. Koolhaas' could be a risky proposal, but certainly the only one that has proven to be able to reinvent typologies. Foster is also an option, being in the jury Fernandez Galiano and Moneo, for his surgical interventions that would not conflict with those made and because it would be the time to compensate him for the withdrawal of two decades ago.
The contest is developed with the intervention of the jury, being the latter composed by the following members:
President
President of the Royal Board of the Prado Museum
Secretary
The Deputy Director of Administration of the Prado Museum
Vowels
The vice president of the Royal Board of the Prado Museum
The director of the Prado Museum
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets and Archives and Libraries
Deputy Director of Conservation and Research at the Prado Museum
The general coordinator of Programming and Operations of the Prado Museum
The comptroller delegated to the Prado Museum
The attorney of the Legal Service of the State
The president of the Superior Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain
D. Luis Fernandez-Galiano
Mª Dolores Jiménez-Blanco
D. Rafael Moneo Vallés
D. Fernando de Terán Troyano
