Hi!
You might know that Valencia (Spain) is hosting the 32nd America's Cup in 2007. Around this event a lot of political decisions have been taken, especially related to urbanism. Basically in less than 5 years all the areas near the port have been changed (or will be changed). Before, all those areas were almost forgotten by polititians and city planners, therefore they had their own characteristics, an own personality as a fishmendistrictc, ex-industrial area or harbour reserve. Now all this is turned (or will be) into sailing and leisure facilities and high standard apartments.
All the urbanism changes related to 32nd America's Cup are managed by Consorcio Valencia 2007, a supposed public organizationthat gathers national, regional and municipal authorities. Their lastest proposition is launching an international ideas competition to plan all the maritime areas of the city.
Rita Barbera, Valencia major, presented the competition some days ago in Venice Biennale. She urged to participate to "the best architects and urbanists of the world to create the best seafront ever", whatever...
This competition, and the whole idea of changing Valencia seafront is supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA) and its president Mr. Giancarlo Ius (by the way personal friend of some valencian polititians).
The project is huge and, actually interesting...but, i guess the criterion of our beloved Consorcio Valencia 2007 is far from the one we might have. Or not, you never know.
Further information:
http://www.uia-architectes.org/texte/england/valencia2007/annonce.html
http://www.valencia2007.com/
Inés (in Valencia)
4 comments:
why in the world is it called "america's cup"?
Hehe.....well, i am not very sure. Anyhow, and once again, this "america's" means only the United States of America (sorry Lilia...). Somewhere i heard that this competition started many years ago and it was at the begining like a competition between an american ship against one or some european ships...i guess that is the origin of the name.....
The winner country organizes the next regatta. The last winner was Switzerland but they had to ask to another country to host the competition, since Switzerland has no sea.
As much as i know, many different places fought for being the swiss choice. The swiss team (under the name Louis Vuiton) chose the city that offered them more and better advantages and benefits....And here i stop talking becuase i don't want to know what my politicians did offer to them to turn Valencia into the 32nd America's Cup host city. ;-)
or maybe not.. cause the deadline for registration was october 31-st..
but the proposed time.. i mean fridays are still up. If its not Valencia del Mar, it could be some other stuff. There's always something happening. right
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