ASCER Announces Winners of 17th Tile of Spain Awards
The panel of judges for the seventeenth edition of the Tile of Spain Architecture and Interior Design Awards, chaired by architect Jorge Silvetti, met in November in Castellón to decide award winners.
The new entrance to Palma’s intermodal station, designed by architect Joan Miquel Seguí Colomar, was announced as the winner in the Architecture category. The panel of judges particularly valued the use of ceramic tiles to create a latticework effect as a defining feature for the entrance, marking the threshold between the urban space and the intermodal station’s service infrastructures. The design marks a return to the Mediterranean tradition of latticework as a filter between exteriors and a more enclosed, user-friendly area. The bold use of ceramic tiles is an ideal solution for a structural resource that is concealed from the exterior.