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Last October saw the inauguration of the first phase of the Business Creation Centre of the University of Alicante, a work carried out by Vázquez Consuegra. The building revolves around the presence of office-laboratory modules for science and technology-based companies, versatile and flexible spaces equipped with as many facilities as required depending on their nature, with the possibility of being increased or replaced in the future. It is a U-shaped building, with a main body at its head, which houses the common areas of the centre, such as the lobby, the cafeteria/restaurant and the service areas corresponding to the company laboratories. The Alicante Science Park has created a virtual tour of the entire building, in which you can explore each space, floor by floor, through the following link: Access to the CEE virtual tour

The V Biennale di Architettura di Pisa, held between 13 and 29 October, has awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. An award dedicated to those who, during their profession and through their work, have been attentive to the search for the construction of urban meanings always inspired in people’s quality of life. The jury has emphasised the architect’s ability to combine in his works major themes such as social balance and the understanding of the city as a place for meeting and relationship, all of it carried out with a high degree of aesthetic sensitivity. Attachments Laudatio Luca Lanini_Per Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (268 kB)

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a Lectio Magistralis tomorrow 27 October in the context of the V Biennale di Architettura di Pisa. Under the slogan “Shared City”, this year’s biennale aims to disseminate works and lines of research that show the role of architecture in social rebalancing, offering the possibility of comparing past experiences and visions of the future. Works that shape new models and will lead the way in designing the cities of the future.

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a lecture at the Venice School of Architecture on 2 October at 11.30 a.m. in the Aula Magna dei Tolentini, the University’s headquarters at Santa Croce 191, Venice. Entitled “Una nuvo totalità”, the lecture will focus on the importance of context through various interventions in the built environment.

Audi Spain has used the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena as a backdrop to promote the latest launch of the Audi Q3 Black Line.

Vázquez Consuegra is facing the final stage in the construction of the MKR multi-brand shop in the centre of Seville. Located in an old building designed by the architect Gómez Millán in 1912, this is the second shop that the studio has designed for Markaride S.L. However, this new store will offer more exclusive brands, becoming a benchmark on the city’s haute couture circuit.

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will restore the former Convent of the Poor Clares in the Italian town of Melfi for its conversion into the Museo MIA, Museo delle Innovazionni e delle Arti. The monastery of San Bartolomeo was built around the 16th century and entrusted to the Nuns of the Order of Santa Chiara until the Municipal Council of Melfi, in 1863, ordered the closure of the monastery and the transfer of the building to the military authorities. From the convent of the Poor Clares, it became a prison until the end of the 1980s. Now, the GVC studio will be in charge of its refurbishment to turn it into a new cultural space in the city. The former convent, and future MIA Museum, is part of the “38 Cantieri della Cultura”, a detailed and exclusive selection made by the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the strategic plan “Grandi Progetti Beni Culturali”, relating to restoration and intervention projects in monumental and cultural buildings. This selection includes such emblematic buildings as the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, the Colosseum, the Vittoriano, the MAXXI Museum and the Palazzo Poli e Calcografia in Rome, the Royal Palace in Naples, the Egyptian Museum in Turin and the Basilica of St. Andrew in Mantua, among others. For more information, please click on the following link.