On July 8, The Architecture Community, organizer of the prestigious World Design Awards, announced the winning projects in its 2020 edition. Among them were four of our works: the San Mames Stadium received the first prize in the Sports & Recreation Built category; the Lima Convention Center in the Cultural Built category; the University of Bambey in the Institutional Building Built category; and the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council in Public Building Built category.

Furthermore, apart from being the firm that has received the most awards, we are the only Spanish company to be recognized with an award.

The San Mames Stadium has previously been recognized with the first prize in the Structural Awards, in the Long Span Structures category (2017), Best Venue in the World Football Summit Industry Awards (2017), first prize in the WAF Awards (2015), and Stadium of the Year at the World Stadium Congress Awards (2015).

The building is conceived as an architectural piece that must manifest itself with strength, boldness, and respect for the buildings that surround it.

The project gives added value to circulation spaces, providing them with spatial qualities and intensely relating them to the city and its surroundings. This relationship materializes with the introduction of large window openings with red frames.

The ETFE panels that make up the facade make the stadium a focal point of color.

The design of the new stadium, with a capacity for 53,332 spectators, meets the requirements of an “Elite category” stadium, the highest classification, according to UEFA.

The complex contains complementary uses such as a museum, shopping area, restaurant, cafeteria, event rooms, meeting rooms, and conference rooms.

The Lima Convention Center has in turn received other awards such as the first prize in the Institutional Architecture category of The Architecture Masterprize (2019), or the first prize in the Architectural design/another Architecture category of the American Architecture Prize (2017).

The Peruvian state made a commitment to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to hold the 2015 Board of Governors Assembly in Lima.

The construction of the Lima Convention Center (LCC) is framed in this context, expanding and improving the existing infrastructure of the city had to adequately meet the needs of this event.

Strategically located in the Cultural Center of the Nation, the design of the LCC fulfilled three main objectives: to be a cultural and economic driving force, to be a meeting place rooted in the Peruvian collective culture, and to become a singular, flexible, and technologically advanced architectural landmark.

About 15,000 m2 accommodate the 18 multifunctional convention rooms, completing the rest of the architectural program including underground parking, kitchens, restaurant spaces, cafeteria, and other services.

The expansion of the University of Bambey was recognized in the Aga Khan (2019) awards, COAVN (Colegio de Arquitectos Vasconavarro) award in the Extraterritorial Architecture category (2019), first WAN Awards in the Sustainable Building category (2018), first LEAF Awards in the Best Regenerative Impact category (2018) and first prize at the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2017).

Undertaken by the government of Senegal, with financial support from the World Bank, the expansion of the University of Alioune Diop, in Bambey, is part of an ambitious plan to expand and improve the university environment.

Four new buildings have been designed to house the Training and Research Unit, with an architectural program including classrooms, a 500-seat amphitheater, laboratories, computer rooms, and offices.

The design of the buildings was conditioned by the hot and humid climate of the region, and the intensive use and high occupancy of the classrooms. The façade is proposed with a double ventilated envelope on the façade and roof, and the circulation routes are protected to the maximum from the solar radiation.

Low maintenance spaces and minimal energy consumption have been designed, completed by a phytosanitary water purification system using lagoons and rainwater infiltration ponds.

The Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council office building arises from the need to regroup different technical and social departments, previously dispersed around the city.

The building adopts the curved and dynamic shape of the old town, showing on its white facade hints of the architecture of the classic Vitoria bay windows, through the use of infinite vertical planes of perforated sheet metal.

One of the functional aspirations is to enhance the citizen-public administration relationship. Thus, the user service area is located in a large central space, lit by overhead skylights, which, as a large welcoming space, informs and guides the visitor.

The search for visual and light comfort has been a maxim of the project.

The building also integrates abundant passive and active measures of sustainability and energy saving.

Technical sheet 

Project: San Mamés Stadium

Location: Bilbao (Spain)

Client: San Mames Barria

Lead Architects: César A. Azcárate Gómez, Diego Rodríguez

Client care: Alberto Tijero

Project Director:  Oscar Malo

Project managers: Alexander Zeuss, Gontzal Martínez

Other architects: Ricardo Moutinho, Luis Ausín

Capacity: 53.500 espectadores

Completion: 2014

Photography: Aitor Ortiz

Project: Lima Convention Center

Location: Lima (Peru)

Client: OAS, Peru

Lead architects: Tono Fernández Usón, César Azcárate, Javier Álvarez de Tomás

Project Management: Javier Álvarez de Tomás

Other architects: María Cortés Monforte, Jorge Rodríguez, Alejandra Muelas, Enrique Alonso, Adrián Jabonero, Roberto Moraga, Armide González, Nazaret Gutiérrez, María Amparo González, Lucía Chamorro, Jesús Barranco, Magdalena Ostornol, DESSIN-TECHNISCH, Borja Gómez, Pablo Viña, Luis Valverde

Team Coordinator Lima: Miguel de Diego

Team Coordinator Madrid: Alejandro Puerta, Carmen Camarmo

Area: 86.000 m2

Completion: 2016

Photography: Aitor Ortiz

Project: Expansion of the University of Bambey

Location: Diourbel, Senegal

Client: Ministerio de Educación, Senegal, y el Banco Mundial

Lead Architects: Javier Pérez Uribarri, Federico Pardos Auber

Project Management: Federico Pardos Auber

Other architects: Beatriz San Salvador

Area: 7.533 m2

Completion: 2018

Photography: Francesco Pinton

Project: Vitoria City Council Offices

Client: Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council

Location: Vitoria

Lead architects: César Azcárate Gómez, Jesús Armendáriz

Project Management: José Ángel Fernández

Other architects: Daniela Bustamante, Amaia los Arcos

Area: 18.270 m2

Completion: 2015

Photography: Aitor Ortiz

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In the last five years, IDOM's architecture projects have received a total of 45 recognitions, including the Aga Khan Award, first prize in the WAF Awards, the LEAF Awards, and the WAN Awards.

In addition, in the January 2020 edition of the BD World Architecture Annual Survey, the British publication ranked 43 among the top one hundred most important architecture firms in the world.