Spains Concntrico 11 festival has named the winners of a trio of international contests for landmark architectural interventions in the city of LogrooThis year the festival held three separate open calls. The first dubbed Objects in the City sought proposals for temporary urban installations in Logroo and Bucharest.The second contest named Third Landscape sought proposals to transform marginal spaces within the urban environment while the third open call dubbed Picnic in the Vineyard sought ideas for a communal dining experience.The Objects in the City winners were Reciclar la Ecologa by Abad featuring Iker Abad Aguirre and Jon Abad Aguirre of Spain and Me Apunto! by Studio An-An featuring Zixuan Luo and Bella Wu of the USA.The two winning concepts will be constructed in small scale squares such as Plaza de la Inmaculada, Plaza Virgen de la Esperanza, or Plaza de Santa Ana in Logroo as well as in Calea Victoriei in Bucharest as part of the Romanian Design Week.The Third Landscape competition was won La Batalla del Jardinero Planetario by Borneo featuring Antonio De Paola, Flavio Mancuso and Antonio Seghini of Germany. The Picnic in the Vineyard contest was meanwhile won by Earth Cooking by JMBAD featuring Joseph Melka and Balthazar Auguste-Dormeuil of France.The winning teams will each receive a 2,500 top prize and see their concepts constructed out of Garnica plywood in time for the upcoming edition of the annual festival, which runs from 19 to 24 June 2025Logroo, in northern Spain, is a historic city overlooking the River Ebro and is the capital of the Rioja wine-producing province. The Logroo International Festival of Architecture and Design also known as Concntrico has delivered more than 70 pop-up installations and pavilions across the centre of the historic city since it was founded in 2015.In November, Concntrico revealed the four teams shortlisted in an international contest for a permanent new urban climate island installation in Felipe VI Park in Logroo.The winning 80,000 installation will be constructed around a lake in the city centre Felipe VI Park on a stretch of terracing featuring a hexagonal square.
