The renovated Papelera Building (former Papelera del Norte building) has begun its new use in culture as the centre for activities related to the BIA Urban Regeneration Forum, a congress on urban regeneration with the presence of international experts held in Bilbao from the 5th to the 15th July. Among other activities, the Papelera Building is showing the selected proposals from the International Competition of Ideas for architectural students and young architects as well as the development of the academically recognised workshop for final year architectural studentsand recently qualified architects whose work will centre on the Burtzeña quarter of Baracaldo….

The Zorrotzaurre urban development project was present yesterday at the 1st Sustainable Week Forum that took place in the Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao. Among the speakers at the event was Pablo Otaola, the Director of the Zorrotzaurre Management Commission. In the Sustainable Week Forum, a number of experts with wide experience in sustainability presented a number of different reflexions and balances on the question of sustainability in Europe and highlighted the challenges we face in this field in the next few years. The presentations touched on subjects such as, climate change, urban resilience, innovation, the new models of sustainable production…

The programme ‘A punto con la 2’ on Spanish national TV, showed a report on the Zorrotzaurre urban renewal project in its section ‘Espacio vital’. The report was recorded on March 18th. The programme explained the reasons behind the project, the differential aspects of the project when compared to other renewal projects carried out in Bilbao in recent years, and also analysed the importance of ZAWP within the ‘while becoming’ urbanism that was decided on for the future island. The report also contained interviews with Pablo Otaola, Director of the Zorrotzaurre Management Commission, Ruth Mayoral, the ZAWP coordinator, the actor…