El estudio de dos graduados de arquitectura, galardonado por preservar el patrimonio arquitectónico gallego
The studio of two architecture graduates, awarded for preserving Galician architectural heritage
Arrokabe Arquitectos won the award Manuel Gómez Román in the category of 'Rehabilitated or reconstructed adjective buildings'.
The studio of two graduates of the University of Navarra's School of Architecture , Óscar Andrés Quintela and Iván Andrés Quintela, has been distinguished in the second edition of the Manuel Gómez Román Awards. The association Setestrelo awards them to people and institutions that carry out outstanding work in the preservation of the Galician architectural heritage.
Arrokabe Arquitectos received the award for the rehabilitation of an old wood drying building for use as a water sports school. The project was the work of Óscar Andrés Quintela and Lourdes Pérez Castro. It was valued that "they recovered a pre-industrial building for the service of civil society".
The jury was composed of Francisco Nóvoa Rodríguez, president of the association; Xabier Oviedo Rodríguez, mayor of the Council of Maceda; the architect Iago Seara Morales; the building engineer Manuel Caamaño Suárez; the ethnographer and historian Clodio González Pérez; and the president of the Enrique Peinador Forum, Xosé González Martínez.