Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea, Founding Partner of AGi architects, along with Rafael Gallego, Principal of Aureolighting, and Carlos Torrijos, Lighting Designer and founder of the firm Studio & Light, have designed Umbra Light Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, which will fill with light and art the public spaces and emblematic buildings of the Alava capital during the days 21, 22 and 23 of February 2019, thus making the city and territory a touristic, cultural and technological reference.

Under the theme ‘Urbanisms of light. New urban landscapes’, the Festival will also have a cultural and professional program. The event is sponsored by the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Alava and the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Our high-rise building Wind Tower has just been recognized with a new award: the Identity Design Award in the “Residential Exterior” category, as it was made public recently in Dubai. This latest recognition joins the list of awards such the Sustainable Project of the Year at Middle East Architect Awards 2017. In addition, the project is shortlisted for the Larger Scale Housing – Completed Buildings WAF Award.

Wind Tower is shortlisted for the 2018 Cityscape Awards for Emerging Markets in the categories of Sustainability and Residential-Medium to High Rise Project Award (built). Winners will be announced in October at Dubai city.

Our collective housing building Wind Tower will compete for a WAF Award in the Larger Scale Housing-Completed Buildings category, with other 16 shortlisted projects. Winners will be announced in Amsterdam, the European city hosting the current edition of the World Architecture Festival, on 28-30 November.

Our project for the Centro de Arte de las Arquerías de Nuevos Ministerios, in Madrid, was awarded second prize at the competition organized by ENAIRE Foundation. The proposal takes as a starting point the recovery of the essence of the arcades, restoring its nature as a filter and reclaiming the “Gran Plaza” as a great public space for the city. The rehabilitation strategy of this new Art Center proposed by us is governed by four guidelines that will make the new center a social and cultural venue of Madrid city: recovery, transparency, identity and functionality.