It’s hard to imagine what Plaza de la Encarnación looked like before it became home to the largest wooden structure in the world,
By 1973 the plaza had become a parking lot and bus depot. In 2004, Seville commissioned an international competition to rehabilitate the plaza. In 2007, the German architect Jurgen Mayer was named the winner for his project called Metropol Parasol, consisting of 6 large mushroom-shaped parasols. The rehabilitated plaza was inaugurated in 2011.
It is a (big) hint of the new in a city that steadfastly and so beautifully preserves the traditional. Needless to say, it has generated a lot of polemic.
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