The Concello da Coruña will negotiate with the owners of the Citröen building to avoid the demolition | Radio Coruña

He City Council of A Coruña will try to dialogue with the owners of the building the Citroën -the former concessionaire Rodríguez Amado- to avoid the demolition of the property, after the justice has proved them right and has rejected the municipal appeal against the demolition.

The building’s owners applied for the demolition license in 2016 and the government ofl PP of Carlos Negreira It was granted by administrative silence. Then the executive of the Atlantic Tide initiated the procedures for cataloging and filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia which has now been rejected. The building has an emblematic facade of Fernández Albalat on Avenida de Oza. The government of Ines Rey will continue with the cataloging process.

The court ruling reveals how the local PP government initiated a process to protect the building and re-catalog it after approving the demolition license. The Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia and the Administrative Litigation Chamber number 4 of A Coruña state that “protection cannot be applied retroactively“Now there are no more resources and therefore Mayor Inés Rey assumes that the only way is to negotiate with the owners.

The Administrative Litigation Court number 4 estimates the appeal filed by the property and authorizes the demolition of the historic building that housed the concessionaire Rodríguez Amado of the Citroën and that it is an example of modern architecture. The request for demolition by the owners dates back to May two years ago. Municipal sources indicate that the building is included in the draft of the Catalog of protected properties.

The dealership for Citroën de Fernández-Albalat at the crossroads between the Ronda de Outeiro and Avenida de Oza It is a singular work on which the project was delivered in 1959, but which was not built until 1966. It is a building with a modern aesthetic with references taken from light American architecture (Richard Neutra o Albert Frey), but also with closer aesthetic perspectives, especially in terms of implantation such as rationalist expressionism.

In it, the modern rationalism of prefabricated materials is mixed with the radical gesture of German expressionism by curving the plane of the corner facade. The curve and the materiality of the glass thanks to the steel carpentry built in its time the setting for the exhibition of the building’s protagonist: the car, located at the point of the plot from which it had the most visibility. In 1970, the building was expanded, giving it three more floors.

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