Centro Botín. Santander

Centro Botín. Santander

“Emilio Botín loved fishing, and I loved sailing. For years, both of us had practiced two skills that united us: the exercise of waiting and patient observation of the sea. This project owes a lot to the long moments spent watching the sun shimmering on the sea. That radiance that is profoundly part of the imagination of those born and raised by the sea”.

2017, Santander, Spain. The Centro Botín, a space for art, culture and education, thrusting into the bay of Santander, restores to the city the extensive dockland area of the Albareda wharf, previously used as a parking lot. A strategic area, overlooking the sea, close to the historic center and enhanced by the ancient Jardines de Pereda. Hemmed in between the park and the sea, and aligned with the public market, the new Centro Botín rests half on the ground with the other half suspended over the water. How to raise a 5,000-ton building off the ground. The work on light and its reflections: the choice of ceramics.

The tenth monograph of the Renzo Piano Foundation was published in 2018 and tells through images, sketches, testimonies, models, and prototypes the entire path that was taken for the creation of the Botín Center.

Credits

Technical Information

Closed size:
28x28 cm

Description:
212 pages, printed in 4 colors + paint
Cover with double inside flap. 

Languages:
Italian/English

ISBN code: 
978 88 6264 018 3 Italian/English 
 

Volume edited by

Lia Piano

Conception and development 

Lia Piano e Franco Origoni

con 
Francesca Becchi
e
Shunji Ishida e Elena Spadavecchia

With the participation of

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Emanuela Baglietto
Stefania Canta
Chiara Casazza

Linda Gambino
Giovanna Langasco
Antonio Porcile
Linda Zunino

Fondazione Renzo Piano

Martina Ivaldi

Graphic design and layout

Origoni Steiner Architetti Associati
Franco Origoni e Anna Steiner

with
Carlotta Origoni
Federica Cocco
Filippo Tognocchi

Translation

Richard Sadleir
RPBW
Elena Spadavecchia
Dalia Traducciones
Zesauro Traduciones

Publisher

Fondazione Renzo Piano

Edition

2018