Concern about changes at Espai Barça

The dean of the School of Architects of Catalonia, Guillem Coast, has sent to Joan Laporta, president of the FC Barcelona, a letter of worry by the works of the new Camp Nou of Nikken-Sekkei, study of architecture that projected originally the Espai Barça, and of Fermín Vázquez Architects. Both companies have remained out of these works after a bidding that did the club and that has won Torrella engineering, company of engineering and rooted architecture in Terrassa.

The decision has to be approved still in Commission Delegated and, afterwards, in meeting of the managerial board of the FC Barcelona. In the dispatches culés expect that in the month of November begin already the works of demolish of the third gradería, taking advantage of the stop in League and Champions by the dispute of the World-wide of Qatar.

When pactó between the Barça and the City council of Barcelona the green light of the consistory to the project of the Espai Barça, the School of Architects of Catalonia engaged to watch and look after the good execution of the project. From here this reaction of his dean, seeing that Nikken-Sekkei, Japanese architecture that designed to the detail the quoted project, can remain out of the execution of the same to level of engineering and works.

The letter in question

"After making public that the teams of architects Nikken-Sekkei and b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects will not follow at the head of the works of the project of the new Camp Nou, want to move him that from the COAC, for all the community of the architects, regret that the winning architects of the contest of the project of the Camp Nou do not lead his continuity and the direction of the works. We consider that it is necessary to work to promote and boost the good architecture, doing prevail the criteria of quality that protects the Law of Architecture. Therefore, it would like me that we could gather us to speak of the question and find points of confluence to guarantee the quality and continuity of the original project. I expect that we can concretise a date próximamente for the meeting. It receive a cordial greeting", has finalised the communicated Coast.

In the meantime the letter has generated surprise in the Barça. On the one hand, to the not understanding that the organism plant of the side of a pair of companies, when the one who had obtained the bidding of the direction of works. From the club aims that already it informed to the School of the 'timing' and of the phases of the works, before the bidding, by what do not understand that they go in in considerations on a decision of a private entity like the Barça.