Bilbao City
Hall, Spain
Architect
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IMB Arquitectos
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Date
Built
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2008
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Location
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San Agustin
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Description
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The new buildings that house the technical
offices of Bilbao's city corporation are
located directly behind the beautiful
neo-baroque original town hall designed by
Joaquin Rucoba in 1892.
Under the headline "BILBAO CITY COUNCILS NEW
BUILDING: SAN AGUSTIN" the
bilbaointernational website says that one
consideration in the design of this building
was, ".... respect for the
representative image of the main
building of the Bilbao City Hall and
projecting the volumetry and alignments
of the new municipal headquarters
attending to the conditions of the urban
environment in which it is
implanted. Another aspect taken
into account by the authors of the
project, IMB Architects, is the lack of
public space that existed in direct
relation to the current City Hall
building. In this sense, the final
design of the new municipal headquarters
has contemplated the creation of an
outdoor public space as an approach to
the ground floor of the new
building. This new urban space is
formed by the surface of the back alley
of the City Hall."
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