A bold urban strategy transforms a worn beachfront into a vivid curvilinear 'plaza' on Spain's Costa Blanca.
When Carlos Ferrater, principal of Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), won the competition to upgrade the mile-long Poniente Beachfront of Benidorm — a sliver of a city dubbed the “Manhattan of Spain” for its concentration of high-rise buildings along the Mediterranean — he and his associate, Xavier Martí Galí, who are the project’s design architects, referenced the landscape and wavy patterning of Roberto Burle Marx’s Copacabana promenade, as well as the work of Antonio Gaudí, to devise an engaging intervention. The resulting esplanade is now the central public meeting place of this thriving tourist city.
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