2024-01-11 15:31:18
A drop of water. That will be the “emblem” of the future CaixaForum in Malaga, which will also shape the building itself, a avant-garde center dedicated to culture, science, art and education which will be managed by the “la Caixa” Foundation and which will open its doors in the second half of 2026.
With an investment of 30 million euros Fully financed by the Foundation, it will be the tenth CaixaForum to be built in the country, the second in Andalusia, joining Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia – inaugurated in 2022 -, Zaragoza, Seville, Palma, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona.
Of course, the one on the Costa del Sol will be the “most unique” and the “best in Spain”as emphasized by the president of the “la Caixa” Foundation, Isidro Fainé, during the presentation of the architectural project in the Hall of Mirrors of the Malaga City Council. “It is a facility with which we wish to contribute to the strength of this city, which in recent years has become the admiration of all of Spain.”
This center, “long sought after” by the Malaga City Councilin the words of the deputy general director of this social entity, Elisa Durán, will occupy a constructed area of 9,417 square meters in the Manuel Azaña SquareSpecifically, on the twin lot to the Provincial Police Station, currently used for parking, next to the main entrance to the capital, Andalucía Avenue.
It will be built on a site that has been in the hands of the Malaga City Council since the end of the year after the completion of its transfer by the Government of Andalusia and that The ‘La Caixa’ Foundation will manage it through a direct and free transfer from the City Council. With barely three years left for its construction, it is expected that the works will begin this year after the summer, which will mean the materialization of the agreement signed between both parties in March of last year, which gave rise, Durán stressed, to some months of “intense work.”
For the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, the landing of a CaixaForum in Malaga means place the capital in the “leading squad of the large Spanish cities”, in the league of large cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Zaragoza. The Malaga councilor has highlighted that it will be a “first-rate”, “singular” and “iconic” cultural facility not only for the Cruz de Humilladero district in which it is built but for the city and the province.
De la Torre, aware of the tight deadlines for the inauguration of the center, has turned to the Urban Planning Management team, to whom he has sent the “message” that they be “agile” in the processing of the construction permit that will allow the work to start. “I am very happy that the forecasts are being met.”
Ability
The CaixaForum Málaga will have two large exhibition halls with the capacity to host up to six exhibitions per year, to which several multipurpose rooms will be added on the first floor of the building. It will have an educational space, a cafeteria-restaurant and a bookstore-store on the ground floor.
As for its exteriors, a garden open to the public Also designed to organize outdoor activities. In addition to the investment planned for the construction of the infrastructure, the center will have an annual maintenance cost of five million euros that will also be fully assumed by the “la Caixa” Foundation, so the activity of this cultural space will be at zero cost for the Malaga City Councilexcept for the value of the land that has been transferred.
Although the deputy general director of the entity has wanted to be cautious regarding the influx they hope to attract to the CaixaForum, Elisa Durán did refer to the Valencia center, the last to be inaugurated, which last year brought together around one million people, a figure that could be among the Foundation’s aspirations for its new center in Malaga. “Why not set ourselves the challenge that we have in Valencia?” asked Durán, who added that, beyond the influx, the objective of these centers is to strengthen the “recurrence” of visitors to the space, thus creating a ” cultural consumption habit” in the population. “Our objective is that whoever visits CaixaForum does so in the order two and three times a year, six temporary exhibitions means that. That habit is the main objective.”
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