The Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea - a nonprofit initiative launched in 2002 by a group of professionals with a keen interest in the development of contemporary architecture -, announces the “International Competition for Ideas for the head offices of the Fundación Arquitectura Contemporanea and the San Pablo Block in Cordoba”.

The competition is presented as an opportunity for the Fundación to acquire their own space capable of receive the activities it promotes, and propose solutions to articulate the now unresolved articulations of urban space of such a central part of the city.  The Competition must answer, from present, a series of objectives coming from the open naturaly of the Fundación and from the willingness to debating with an important heritage environment for the future of the city.  Respond to the known existence of the arqueological rests will be an obligation, and to generate a new acces to the space of opportunity that represent the Huerta de San Pablo, opening a critical reflection on urban greater interaction between cultural institutions present.

http://www.arquitecturacontemporanea.org/concursoeng/