Arteixo Tourist Office was designed by the Spanish firm Alejandro Garcia y Arquitectos and is located on a site previously used as a bus top. The ambition was to create an urban attraction of the Arteixo municipality in Galicia, Spain.
Note that other cities such as Santiago de Compostela and are themselves an attraction, not necessary that the Tourist Office be, however in Arteixo Tourism is little known (beaches, trails landscapes, architecture , trade is not known) is why from the beginning we wanted a solution that was the center of attraction of tourism, the tourist that goes to the coast of Finisterre or death did stop along the way through a unique building after giving staff would be responsible for information that will remain on Arteixo tourists to consume and learn from another point of view the area.
The other condition was the economic game, had to get something unique with little money. So you choose the option to restore and condition the existing building, without pulling, to adapt it to use as an office providing it with comfort and service to its users, then decided to create a new skin to be building a modern new material and resistant in time, when that skin creating imagination did the rest, to create this new image of the existing building that does not go unnoticed and the building itself was the center of attraction of the visitor.
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