Architecture Prize
1st Prize B

Vícar Theatre, Almería (Spain)
Architects: Nicolás Carbajal Ballell, Simone Solinas, Gabriel Verd Gallego, Seville
Contractor: Metazinco, Madrid

The City of Vicar Theatre with its impressive and lively façade created by use of TECU® Classic, TECU® Brass and TECU® Bronze was built right in the middle of an ensemble of public buildings like school, town hall, health centre and market hall. A major ambition for the realization of this project was to set a counterpart to the unsatisfying positioning of the existing buildings and to create an admirable solution for the specific demands of the site.

"An object of impressive beauty and elegance. The façade solution is fully convincing by formal aspects and by the aesthetic, ever changing colours of the surfaces – just like the essence of copper promises." (Excerpt from the Jury’s appraisal)