estonoesunsolar winning project at LLGAwards 2013 Cities pilot the future _ San Francisco

estonoesunsolar  awarded at LLGA2013 as one of the best urban solutions :
after 3 months of research, 2,535 candidates and two rounds of Jury involving 159 global experts we are definitely one of the 22 LLGA2013 winners! There were 120 nominated urban and social solutions for this year’ s 22 participating cities. The LLGA | Cities Summit held this week in San Francisco, where leading solution providers connected with municipal decision makers to share and further inform their communities. An exclusive event for representatives from the 22 participating cities and other invited cities, as well as the winning solution providers. Cities are typically represented by officials related to their challenge as well as representatives from their smart city/innovation departments who are scouting for interesting companies.  Gravalosdimonte architects had the great opportunity to share their knowledge and connect with cities in the LLGA 2013 summit in San Francisco as the aim of  Citymart.com  is to provide   smart solutions  and improve the lives of citizens around the world.

http://www.llga.org/solutions.php

estonoesunsolar selected in Future Cities awards_13 Biennale Architettura_exhibition Magazzini del Sale

estonoesunsolar is one of the 10 selected projects in “FUTURE CITIES – PLANNING FOR THE 90 PER CENT”, Celeste Prize. Visual projects in any media capable of transforming our urban spaces. Artists, photographers, architects and designers where invited to reflect on issues facing people in private and public spaces around the world, such as housing, transport, environment, leisure, overcrowding, proposing low cost, low tech solutions to improve conditions and understanding. In forty years time, seven out of the world’s nine billion inhabitants will be living in cities. Almost half will be living in non-formal accommodation. The need to improve the metabolism of the metropolis by designing for conditions and environments which have always been considered emergency situations is now urgent and necessary. 13ª Biennale Architettura, Patrizia Di Monte 27/08 h 18,00 Magazzini del Sale, Venezia.

http://www.celesteprize.com/futurecities/

estonoesunsolar finalista City to City FAD awards 2012

estonoesunsolar, tras haber sido nominado, ha resultado uno de los programas finalistas del City to City FAD Award 2012, premio que concede el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y el FAD (Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño) para reconocer procesos urbanos que han supuesto una transformación global en la realidad de una determinada ciudad a escala internacional. estonoesunsolar, desarrollado en la ciudad de Zaragoza, es un programa experimental de regeneración urbana gracias al cual se han transformado 28 solares abandonados, por un total de 42.000 m², en espacios públicos, con carácter casi siempre transitorio, contando con la participación de más de 40 asociaciones vecinales, culturales, de mayores, colegios, Juntas de distrito ecc.., en 13 meses, generando  nuevos empleos para 110 parados de larga duración.

XI Bienal Española Arquitectura y Urbanismo: mención para Ignacio Grávalos y Patrizia Di Monte por el proyecto estonoesunsolar

El jurado de los presente edición de la Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo [BEAU XI]  ha hecho público esta mañana el acta final en el que se dan a conocer los ganadores y se sacan conclusiones de la edición. De las 6 categoría de premios concedido,  la mención del premio de investigación ha sido concedida a los arquitectos Patrizia Di Monte e Ignacio Grávalos por el programa estonoesunsolar.

http://xi.bienalarquitectura.es/es/blog/resultados-beau-xi