New Barça stadium

The project of huge Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei relieves the Foster´s one.

New Barça stadium project

In September 2007 the club presented its previous project for a new Camp Nou. Joan Laporta presided over the club. And Sir Norman Foster was the winner in the contest. The British architect has drafted its proposal from a specification of five pages provided by the club. In its proposal acquired prominence formalism, it resulted in a scaly skin -evocative the roof of Gaudi House Batlló-, with the colors of the Barca shirt and the senyera. It was a time when in Spain built many star architects, sometimes with unbridled expressiveness and budgetary largesse.

This time the club has acted differently: he gave the contestants hundred pages of conditions, from detailing the number of seats to the VIP boxes, through the suggested types of cover for the stadium.

With so extensive specifications Barca sought to achieve the two main objectives of reform -catch up with regard to safety regulations and optimize the performance of the Camp Nou (raising there until additional 50 million euros per year). And, too, it led to the formation of teams of contestants who would represent the local profession, accredited architectural quality, and powerful engineering and architecture, based in the US, Britain, Japan and other countries where their role are dominating the architects, unlike what makes the tradition in Spain. They are engineers, most of them with experience in the construction of large sports facilities, always with very strict criteria for compliance schedule and budget.

Barcelona stadium project

In short, the club has been betting on the Laporta era for the iconic, colorful and stellar signature work, to bet on the Bartomeu time for a work that supports high-capacity engineering and diffuse aesthetic identity.

Who’s who in the team that will design the Camp Nou? What are credited? How will your synergy? What can we expect of the work Nikken Sekkei presented yesterday and Pascual-Ausió?

Nikken Sekkei, formed from a construction company that was born in 1900, is one of the largest engineering and architectural firms in the world, with nearly 2,500 employees, headquartered in Tokyo, and regional offices in the Far East and the Persian Gulf. He has participated in 20,000 projects in 40 countries. Among its sports facilities are the Saitama Super Arena in Chuo-Ko, and the Tokyo Dome. It has built skyscrapers and all kinds of private and public facilities. Its Catalan partners in the club, the study of Joan Pascual and Ramon Ausió, based in Barcelona, has a dozen professionals. In his curriculum apartment blocks dominate, such as 200 that ended in several towers of Barceloneta, twenty years ago; among his most recent works, the Diagonal Zero (Barcelona) hotel or the Electra (Terrassa) school.

This difference in muscle between the two partners winners of contest-and something similar happened in the Palau Blaugrana contest, won by Hok (1,800 employees) and TAC-Barcelona suggests that the club has passed the time of architectural and enters starsystem of engineering. It also suggests the elimination of contestants strong personality among the last fallen Bofill, Ferrater, RCR, Matthew or BIG-. And even the career of one who has served as project manager of the operation Espai Barça, which includes the new Camp Nou.

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Iberia prepares to re-open routes from Barcelona to international destinations

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Iberia is transformed. After six years with a very critical financial situation, the IAG group has managed to turn the Spanish flag carrier and out of the ICU, despite doubts after joining the British group. Now, Iberia new challenges for the coming years is posed. Among them, prepared to re-open routes from Barcelona to international destinations, mainly thanks to the new cost structure and the new fleet of aircraft.

Commented the CEO, Luis Gallego, in mid-December last year, it would be “flight point to point long distance” as the medium and short-haul group covers him from Barcelona, currently the Vueling airline.

Iberia, whose maiden flight was a Madrid-Barcelona 87 years ago began to reduce its presence in the Catalan capital nine years ago. Currently only it operates the shuttle, a journey that continues to generate losses.

The manager of the company avoided commenting specific destinations and dates of the flights that operate from Barcelona, but said “it will only be a direct connection and in which there is high demand.” He made it clear that “our Madrid hub will continue” despite not look kindly on it shared with Air Europa.

However, the announcement to re-operate international flights profitably from the Catalan city represents a strategic shift for the company, while an opportunity, since it is aware that the airport of El Prat is one of the most international tourist traffic move each year in Spain.

After six consecutive years of losses, Iberia achieved its first operating profit in 2014. In fiscal 2012, the company lost 351 million, which represented almost one million euros a day hole. A year later, in 2013, came the current management team led by Gallego, and losses to less than half were reduced but still reached 166 million. Later that year, he reached a mediation agreement with the staff, especially the drivers (the most contentious collective), and succeeded in designing a new cost structure. In this context, a salary reduction of 14% for the crew and 7% for ground staff agreed. This reduction in personnel costs and productivity improvement carried in 2020, employee costs per seat / kilometer offered will be 35% lower than those of 2012. At the same time, you are running a cost reduction by process changes, with the help of technology. In addition, there are synergies with the group also contribute to achieving the roadmap marked by Gallego. And as the wind blows in favor, we must add to buy fuel at lower prices, by falling oil prices, it allows you to set new trading strategies. The sum of all these actions, 2014 left the red and benefits achieved 50 million. The figures for last year are not public yet (will be presented on 26 February), but are assumed positive, since in the first nine months of the year earned 196 million.

Another factor that will help support routes from Barcelona is the new fleet. Specifically, it has commissioned 29 new long-haul aircraft. This is new generation A350-900 sixteen and thirteen A330-200s, which will be received until 2021. Late last year, Airbus delivered the first of the A330-200, and will arrive nine this year. Iberia was the first airline to receive the new version of this model airplane.

In the past two years, between Iberia and Iberia Express has opened 30 routes, including some suspended, like Havana. And this 2016, the company will open routes to Johannesburg, Tokyo, Shanghai and Puerto Rico. A Tokyo will start flying from October 18, and Shanghai in the coming winter season, when I get permits and slots to begin operations.

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Nikken Sekkei opens office in Barcelona

The company, which is one of the largest groups of engineering and architecture in the world, based on its development in Europe in Barcelona

Tadao Kamei, president of Nikken Sekkei

Nikken Sekkei, one of the largest architectural and engineering in the world, has just opened an office in Barcelona that will be the basis for future development across Europe. For a couple of weeks has begun to work in an office of Bonanova, a team of a dozen architects and technicians. A few days ago, the president and CEO of Nikken Sekkei, Tadao Kamei, was in Barcelona to present its strategy, which is to “establish partnerships with local studies architecture”, and here and in other countries European Union in carrying out projects.

Kamei said they have chosen Barcelona as a platform for European expansion “by the influence of the work of Antoni Gaudí, the quality of the schools of architecture in the city, and excellent communications possibilities offered by the city.” The company was clothed in his arrival in Barcelona by the Business Circle Japan Spain, Jorge Lasheras presiding.

Nikken Sekkei is the largest group of Japanese architecture and one of the top five in the world. It employs 2,500 people (more than a thousand architects), headquartered in Tokyo and four main offices and nine branches in Japan, and subsidiaries in Singapore; Seoul; Shanghai, Dalian and Beijing (China); Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Ryadh (Saudi Arabia) and Dubai. The company, which has its origins in 1900, has performed work in over forty countries, and its projects are some of the unique buildings that define the skylines of Japanese and Asian cities as well as airports, cultural facilities, hospitals planning projects.

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