On the day that celebrates 29 years since Loulé was elevated to the category of city (on February 1st), the municipal executive visited the main works being carried out.
Thus, the contracts were shown at Café Panties, at Solar da Música Nova, which will house the Conservatory of Music, the Philharmonic Society Artistas de Minerva and a new auditorium, at Palácio Gama Lobos, which will host the ECOA (Creativity, Crafts and Arts) of Loulé Criativo, but also in the Islamic Baths, still in archaeological works, and that will have a 3D interaction.
The renovated Solar da Música, in addition to gaining a new floor (still to be done), which will be occupied by the Minerva Artists, will have an auditorium next to it, which is already being built from scratch. This will have, in addition to 120 seats, "visible white concrete", as explained by the architect Pedro Guerreiro.
Both on the 1st floor, which can already be visited, as on the other to be built, there will be music rooms. At the main entrance, next to the Municipal Archive, the vaults will be kept, but there will be an extension to an entrance on Rua do Serradinho.
This is, of all, the most expensive work, costing 2 million and 330 thousand euros, and its completion is scheduled for January 2018.
The Palácio Gama Lobos, near the Solar da Música, will have a “little intrusive” intervention, according to the architect Luís Guerreiro. This is because “the logic of space will be respected”. Still, a 2nd floor will be demolished.
As for the future of the space, it will be used to house ECOA, which aims to combine ancestral knowledge, such as crafts, with contemporary art, and will have an exhibition area, another for workshops with workshop, but also an incubator for those who want to start their activity.
In total, this work will cost 1 million euros and has a completion period of 540 days.
Photos: Pedro Lemos|Sul Informação
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