Arquipélago is a finalist for the architecture award RIBA
The Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Centre, a project with the architect’s signature João Mendes Ribeiro and ‘Menos é Mais Architects’, from Cristina Guedes and Francisco Vieira de Campos, is one of six finalists for the international award of architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), whose winner will be announced at the 24th of November.
The remaining five projects that incorporate the finalist list are the Heydar Aliyev Center, from the architect Zaha Hadid, in Azerbaijan, the Universidad de Ingeniera y Tecnologia, from Grafton Architect, in Peru, the Stormen Concert Hall, from DRDH Architects, in Norway, the The Ring of Remembrancem from Agence d’Architecture Philippe Prost, in France, and the Museo Jumex, from David Chipperfield Architects, in Mexico.
At an initial stage of this award there were included 30 projects from over two dozens of countries, from which were selected the six finalists, awaiting now the jury decision regarding that one that will be considered as the ‘most significant and inspiring building of the year’.
For fifty years now that the Royal Institute of British Architects supports and celebrates the best of architecture in the whole world, and since three years ago, through the institution of this international award.
The Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Centre was awarded in June with FAD Prize of Architecture 2016, promoted by the Spanish association Arquifand, having also been nominated for the European Prize of the Public Urban Space – Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona and awarded in the X Bienal Ibero-Americana of Architecture and Urbanism.
In 2015, it was among the 40 selected projects for the international prize Mies van der Rohe.