Centro Botín

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Centro Botin

The Centro Botín is a Museum of Modern Art and a cultural center . The building is in the port city of Santander , the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, which belongs to Spain . The art museum is one of the world's leading museums of modern art. The building was designed by the architect Renzo Piano . The Botín Foundation is the ideal and material sponsor of the institution. Construction work began in 2012 and the opening took place on June 23, 2017. The construction costs amounted to around € 100 million.

Botin Foundation

The Botín family is the founder of Banco Santander and still holds a minority share in the listed institute. Members of the Botín family have been and have been presidents of the bank for several generations. Since 2014, the bank has been chaired by Ana Botín , the eldest daughter of long-time CEO Emilio Botín, who died in 2014 . The Botin Foundation is a family foundation, it was founded in 1964 by Marcelino Botín. The foundation's activities originally focused on Cantabria; today it is also active in other provinces and abroad. It is the aim of the foundation to make a contribution to social development by discovering and promoting creative talents so that cultural, social and economic values ​​are created. The foundation organizes activities in the fields of art, culture, education, science and rural development.

Description of the building

The building is located at the Albareda Pier, adjacent to the Pereda Park. Before that, the ferries to England, among others, left here. The multi-lane, busy embankment road was moved into a tunnel at this point. This gives the Centro Botín an attractive, unique position directly on the quay wall, which enhances the effect of the sophisticated architecture.

With the exception of a glass central area, it rests on pillars, giving it an almost floating impression. The Centro Botín consists of two parts of the building, which are connected to each other by open walkways. The parts of the building each have different sizes and functions, but a similar shape.

The total area is almost 7000 m². The western part of the building is the larger building. With an exhibition space of 2500 m² over two floors, it serves as an art museum. There is a restaurant and shops on the ground floor. The eastern part has a lecture hall and classrooms that are used for cultural purposes, lectures and seminars.

The facade is covered with around 280,000 bright, semicircular ceramic tiles that reflect the daylight in a dazzling way. Each part of the building has large glass surfaces on the waterfront and on the land side, which let in plenty of light inside and emphasize the lightness of the construction from the outside.

Web links

Commons : Centro Botín  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Botin Foundation ( en ) Accessed July 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Tras tres años de retrasos y 20 millones de sobrecoste, the Centro Botín pone “en riesgo la seguridad de los usuarios” ( es ) In: eldiariocantabria . December 18, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  3. ^ The Fundación Botín ( en ) In: website of the Centro Botín . Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Bernhard Schulz: Renzo Piano's flying building . In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 25, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  5. ^ Ulrich Brinkmann: The Centro Botín in Santander . In: Bauwelt 16/2017 . Retrieved July 2, 2019.

Coordinates: 43 ° 27 ′ 38 "  N , 3 ° 48 ′ 14"  W.