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Enric Miralles/EMBT
C.N.A.R.
Alicante, Spain

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Enric Miralles (1955 - 2000) was one of the most closely watched young architects in Spain thanks to a number of promising and unorthodox projects.
The National Gymnastics Training Building (C.N.A.R.) was the first major building of this rising star of Spanish regional modernism.

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The C.N.A.R. initiated a new building type in which a large audience focuses on individual performances, and therefore requires a setting less formal than that associated with team sports.
The building, composed of a series of interacting elements; ground-scape, sky-scape and walls of varying permeability, relates closely to its site, growing out of the hill and making visual and physical connections to all sides.

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The order is complex and fragmentary, allowing the landscape to remain primary, as though crowds had gathered in the shadow of that hill for millennia and Miralles has merely added shelter, ranks of seats, and a winding ramp for the approach.

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The building belongs to its site, it enhances the genius loci; yet it makes no concessions to the local style of Alicante. This was the new regionalism of the 1990s, taking its cues from the immediate locality, yet also derived from, and addressed to, an international architectural debate in which Miralles has long been involved.

Completed: 1995

More about the building in the Opus Series - Architecture in Detailed Presentations.

Enric Miralles
C.N.A.R., Alicante (Opus 15)
By Peter Blundell Jones
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

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Enric Miralles/EMBT arcspace features

October 3, 2005





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		Enric Miralles/EMBT C.N.A.R. Alicante, Spain Photo: arcspace Enric Miralles (1955 - 2000) was one of the most closely watched young architects in Spain thanks to a number of promising and unorthodox projects. The National Gymnastics Training Building (C.N.A.R.) was the first major building of this rising star of Spanish regional modernism. Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace The C.N.A.R. initiated a new building type in which a large audience focuses on individual performances, and therefore requires a setting less formal than that associated with team sports. The building, composed of a series of interacting elements; ground-scape, sky-scape and walls of varying permeability, relates closely to its site, growing out of the hill and making visual and physical connections to all sides. Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace The order is complex and fragmentary, allowing the landscape to remain primary, as though crowds had gathered in the shadow of that hill for millennia and Miralles has merely added shelter, ranks of seats, and a winding ramp for the approach. Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace The building belongs to its site, it enhances the genius loci; yet it makes no concessions to the local style of Alicante. This was the new regionalism of the 1990s, taking its cues from the immediate locality, yet also derived from, and addressed to, an international architectural debate in which Miralles has long been involved. Completed: 1995 More about the building in the Opus Series - Architecture in Detailed Presentations. Enric Miralles C.N.A.R., Alicante (Opus 15) By Peter Blundell Jones Publisher: Edition Axel Menges Check the price at amazon.com European customers click here: Check the price at amazon.co.uk Enric Miralles/EMBT arcspace features October 3, 2005