DIARIO DE SEVILLA

There are architects who enjoy using the same themes and designs styles over and over; others, on the other hand, who jump from one design to the next trying out a broad range of visions. The first type is represented by the extreme case of Mies, while the second is based on the extensive changes of the architecture of Wright. In between, lies a whole range that creates a panoramic which is always difficult to pin down as one specific style. The contemporary architecture in Andalucia does not leave either of the these two brackets although its current work is less radical than its predecessors. We could align with high quality architecture that is repeated, known authors such as Cruz and Ortiz and Vazquez Consuegra, while on the other bank of the river the architectural vicissitudes of Gonzalez Cordon pave their way. This has been true until the impact of cultural homogenization processes that accompany globalization, followed by the course start of the fashion scene, which has spun so clearly outl of the line of modernity. From this viewpoint would make a reading of the media window, with a pretense of rigorous scientific selection, which has been the New York exhibition at MOMA. But lest we fall into a reduced vision what happens, we should follow closely the work that some of the Spanish architects violating often project the appearance and conventionality that much of the criticism made of them. Take, for if the latter work MGM. Study is that the performance of Morales and Giles for this hotel Heliopolis district of Seville is particularly significant as say. Insert the demanding hotel program on the rigid structure of walls of the house exists no easy task when you also want to achieve maximum spatial and character among the many other hotels in the city. Therefore, once fitted their kept rooms, the authors focus their attention on the staircase, which acts as Space-counterpoint, and especially in the garden pavilion that occupies the free surface of the plot: an amazing facility which will become the great invention that is offered to the city and distinguishes the building. Thus, as a continuous surface, the smooth skin of the old house is on the outside staircase veil or limestone from Estepa reached the ground, for then be wood and between folds of tubular aluminum profiles, turning to envelop. And is that with this strategy compliments and invites us to reread and live this place: with the pergola which was suspended and barely touching the ground, demonstrates the futility of adjusting to the alignment of the road when building new relationships between public and private concerned; but also, with the unveiling of the tree to open the stud to pass or have at background, a glass half-open leaves us back with their reflections on the relativity of limits. When we joined this unique atmosphere, without ever knowing for certain what their edges or where the ground just begin to be wall, were fascinated by this sensitive skin, with its lights and shadows come to realize the passing hours. No it is to be outside or inside the establishment but a part of this invention and risk of a well planned initiative promoted by the person and those who have bet resolved with much interest.