The Ports of Tenerife, the Island Council and the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council have been working for months on the design of one of the integral parts of the Port of Tenerife Link Dock project, specifically the future marina building, which is already They have chosen an initial building proposal to develop.
Said administrations, with three representatives each, form a Technical Evaluation Commission, whose function is to examine the adequacy of the future building project to the unique environment in which the construction will be located and to the urban concept of the Herzog & De Meuron project. for the area.
The proposal chosen by the Commission is based on its architectural harmony “in accordance with the emblematic space in which it will be built”, with the aim of integrating the building into the planning proposal for this part of the city.
However, indicates the Port Authority, in the report prepared by said Commission and made known this week to the Board of Directors of the port body meeting under the presidency of Carlos González, the concessionaire, Construcciones Dique del Este SA, is requested to draft the a more detailed project with information that was lacking in the initial report presented.
For the president of Puertos de Tenerife, Carlos González, “this is a procedure in which all the administrations involved want the project to be carried out in this area to be adapted, from the point of view of coherence and landscape and architectural quality, to the emblematic around the Plaza de España, the gateway to the Island”. That is why “the building cannot be understood as something isolated but must make sense within an integrated environment, likewise, in the planning of the Link Dock itself”.
Thus, within the next three months, the concessionaire, Construcciones Dique del Este SA, must submit to the Commission a project that defines in detail, among other aspects, the spaces that make up the roof and exteriors of the building. ; a study of the pedestrian itineraries that the construction will assume and a description of the elements that will make up the façade, from materials to colors to be used, through finishes and textures.
