Remodelling of Gijón Town Hall

Involved architects (2)
Involved architects
Javier Uría de la Fuente
Luis Estébanez

Gijón City Council carries out a range of investments, projects and activities aimed at improving accessibility in the city and ensuring that the decisions taken in this field are taken in areas of equal representation. Here is a list of some of the most relevant initiatives. The investments should be directly related to the consolidated municipal budget: an average 250 million euros per year.

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A. INTEGRAL PLANNING POLICIES FOR ACCESSIBILITY IN URBAN SETTINGS

1. Grants for improving housing accessibility. These include installing lifts in buildings without lifts OR replacing stairs with ramps. Between 2000 and 2007, municipal aid totalled 45.9 million euros.

Remodelling of Gijón Town Hall - IX BEAU

2. In this same period, 11.6 million euros were invested in new green areas, parks and gardens. There are 100 new playgrounds and an urban green area that has was enlarged from 947,000 square metres to 2.5 million square metres between 1991 and 2006.

3.Urban improvements. Commercial hubs were created with an investment of 8 million euros between 2000 and 2006. In all cases, the changes reduce traffic, double the pedestrian area and make the stretch more liveable. In addition roads in the rural parishes of the council were improved and lighting installed. Spending on both items totalled 16 million euros during this period.

4. Schools that balance work and family life.

General information

Remodelling of Gijón Town Hall

YEAR

2002

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

Sq. Mayor, 1

33201 Gijon - Asturias

Latitude: 43.545150495

Longitude: -5.662112973

Classification

Building materials

Stone

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

IX BEAU

Involved architects

Javier Uría de la Fuente

Luis Estébanez

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IX BEAU

Website links

IX BEAU

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