El Correo Gallego 08/07
A playful and educational initiative to raise awareness among young people through play.
A game board at IES Cela recreates the cultural heritage of Padrón
La Voz de Galicia 11/04
The initiative was launched by Sandra González Álvarez, an architect, as well as the creator and director of the action, education, and outreach project titled A Vila do Mañá.
Vigo’s architecture and design are recognised by its professional association
La Voz de Galicia 11/03
After winning the Ibero-American Architecture Award in Peru, Sandra González is also shortlisted for the COAG Award in the dissemination and research category for the work carried out with schoolchildren in Coia and other municipalities in Galicia.
It’s official: these are the 47 finalists for the COAG Architecture Awards in Galicia 2025
Quincemil 10/03
The College of Architects of Galicia (COAG) announced this Monday, 10th March, the finalist works for the 21st edition of the COAG Architecture Awards, which received 243 approved, executed, and completed proposals between 1st October 2022 and 30th September 2023.
The Ibero-American Architecture Award: «Coia is the best place in Vigo to live.»
La Voz de Galicia 10/02
Sandra González analyses what the awarded neighbourhood in Lima has and what it lacks, which was created to make the city the largest in Galicia.
A Vila do Mañá: the neighbourhood as a game board in the reconquest of the streets for children
Praza.gal 19/11
The project has recently been awarded at the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism held in Peru for the activity carried out in the Vigo neighbourhood of Coia in collaboration with IES Alexandre Bóveda.
Winners of the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism
Metalocus 17/11
The XIII BIAU has announced the 47 winning proposals (an excess of awarded works, reflecting a lack of criteria, although all are deserving), chosen from among 145 finalists, in a call that received 879 proposals.
The “Vila do mañá” of some architects from A Coruña conquers Latin America
La Voz de Galicia 13/11
Architectural sensitivity, which can be extended to something that touches us all in our daily lives such as urban planning and the environment, must be educated from childhood. That is what the professionals of the Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSA) of A Coruña who devised the project entitled A vila do mañá believe. A work that has been recognized in the XIII edition of the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, in the category of pedagogy. Here it has prevailed over 879 projects.
The Vigo neighborhood of Coia wins the Ibero-American architecture prize
La Voz de Galicia 11/11
The Vigo neighborhood of Coia is now among the unique and notable urban and architectural achievements in the world. The Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, organized in this edition in Lima (Peru), has awarded the project of commitment to its urban configuration, history and potential carried out among the students and teachers of the Alexandre Bóveda Institute, the pedagogical socio-architectural project A Vila do Mañá and the Research Group on Architectural Composition and Heritage (GICAP) of the University of A Coruña.
The Vigo neighborhood of Coia is chosen in Peru among 900 candidates for the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial
La Voz de Galicia 30/10
Yesterday, the Vigo neighborhood of Coia was chosen as a finalist among 879 projects that will compete for the awards of the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, which will be held in Lima (Peru) in December. The pedagogical value of a work that has taken the Vigo neighborhood as its setting has placed it among the 18 finalists for the award in the pedagogical section, in which other candidates from Spain, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia compete. “A Vila do Mañá” as the work carried out last year in Vigo is called, and previously in other Galician towns, is participated by students from the Alexandre Bóveda Institute and led by the architect Sandra González and the Composition Research Group Architecture and Heritage of the University of A Coruña.
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