Description
Previous state
A kilometre and a half long, the seaside promenade of the Playa Poniente used to run parallel to a four-lane road and a row of ground-level parking spaces. An intervention in the 1970s covered it with mediocre paving, lining it with a heavy concrete balustrade 1.2 m high, which noticeably obstructed views of the sea. Access to the sand was only provided at two-hundred-metre intervals by way of ostentatious imperial stairways.
Aim of the intervention
In 2002, the Benidorm Council and the Generalitat (Government) of Valencia decided to invest more than ten million euros to reform the promenade. A call for entries was made in a competition with a view to finding an architectural solution that was sufficiently potent to bring coherence to this abrupt seafront façade. In the transversal sense, the intervention was to improve access to the beach and the visual relationship between sea and city...
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