Vázquez Consuegra: Seville Convention Center

The Seville Congress Center needed to incorporate a new auditorium and increase its exhibition space. The expansion project was entrusted to Seville architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (National Architecture Award of Spain 2005), and this book tells the story of how he conducted an architectural project that is, at the same time, one of the highlights of Spain in recent years and the most important public facility that has been built in Seville during the last decade.

Seville Convention Center by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. Image courtesy of La Fabrica.

Texts by David Cohn, Juan Miguel Hernández León, Fredy Massad, Ignacio de la Peña Muñoz and Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.

Description of project by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra

The project is a new convention center at the Seville Conference and Exhibition Centre, designed by architect Vázquez Consuegra, awarded the Technal Aluminium Architecture Prize.

The jury awarded the Work category to this project due to ”its urban implantation and clear definition between the different public spaces, especially between exterior and interior. We value the mastery of scale and natural light in a large building, and the intelligent use of different materials and their proper combination in both the parts and the whole. We finally highlight the rigor and craft of the project demonstrated throughout its construction.”

This innovative building features a modern architecture which gives it extraordinary luminosity thanks to Technal solutions like the Soleal range, high performance casement windows that suit any project do to their customized design.

These windows as well as the sliding Lumeal doors and the Technal curtain walls were used in the internal facade to ensure the entry of natural light, creating a space for mediation between interior and exterior, between the building and the street, one of the main challenges that the architect wanted to address with this construction.

We have used Soleal doors in all access areas, which are best for places with a large number of people passing through. The center is seamlessly integrated with the existing Fair Park and its local environment, conditioned by a road, the presence of the railway line and the suburban character of the area.

Text by.- Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra

CREDITS.

The author will present the book next February 2 at 20.00 in La Fábrica accompanied by Juan Miguel Hernández León, President of Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Alberto Anaut, President of The Factory

Vázquez Consuegra: Palacio de Congresos de Sevilla.
Editorial.- La Fabrica.
Núm. pág.- 128 páginas
Language.- Spanish - English.
Size.- 23 x 27 cm
Photograph.- Ducco Malagamba and Fernando Alda.
Price.- €35 | ISBN-978-84-15691-85-3

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GUILLERMO VÁZQUEZ CONSUEGRA

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (b. Sevilla, Spain 1945). Gold Medal of Spanish Architecture 2016, Spanish Architecture Prize 2005, Andalusia Architecture Prize 2007, Arpafil Prize (Guadalajara, Mexico) 2006, Grand Prize of the International Biennial of Buenos Aires 2011 and Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects, AIA 2014. His works have received numerous awards, among which are the ArchDaily Building of the 2018 Year Award, The 2015 Plan Award, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum 2015 and 2018 International Architecture Awards, 2014 Iberoamerican Biennial Prize, Ugo Architecture European Prize Rivolta 2008, 2006 ASCER Award, CEOE Foundation Award 2001 and Construmat Prize 1989.

He has participated in multiple exhibitions highlighting the Biennale di Venecia 1980 and 2004, the Triennale di Milano 1988, Center Georges Pompidou Paris 1990, The Art Institute of Chicago 1992, The Museum of Modern Art New York 2006, RIBA London 2007, DOMUSae Madrid 2010, BIAU Rosario, Argentina 2014 and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design 2016 and 2018.

Among its main achievements are the Caixaforum Sevilla Cultural Center (2017), the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Europèennes in Luxembourg (2017), the Seville Conference Center (2012), the social housing buildings in Madrid (2012), Rota ( 1998) and Seville (1987), the San Telmo Palace in Seville, the Andalusian Government Presidency (2010), the National Museum of Underwater Archeology in Cartagena (2008), the Tomares City Council in Seville (2004), the Ordination of the Maritime Edge of Vigo (2004), the Museum of the Enlightenment in Valencia (2001), the Museum of the Sea in Genoa (2001) and the Navigation Pavilion Expo'92 Seville (1991).

He has been Project Professor at the University of Seville, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Lausanne, Pamplona, Syracuse New York, Bologna, Venice, Mendrisio and Visiting Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Seville where he directs the Catedra Blanca project workshop.