The Empresa de Gestión Inmobiliaria de Alcorcón (EMGIASA) has awarded FCC Construcción the contract for the CREAA, for €121 million in a temporary joint venture with another company.

The Arts Creation Centre will be located in the Los Castillos arts park with the Los Castillos and the Vislúmbrales library, - both to be retained in the project - in the San José de Valderas district of Alcorcón, and has been designed by the architects Pedro Bustamante and Javier Camacho. The project involves building nine new buildings and the re-landscaping of the site.

The group of buildings includes:

• An auditorium, a large irregular octagonal volume of glass and metal forming the most important part of the group, with seating for 1,424, a 530 m2 stage and an orchestra pit for 90 musicians. The structural core consists of concrete walls and slabs with a metal structure for the roof and façades.
• A music conservatory with curtain walls.
• A circus stable, of cylindrical design, a ring 14 m in radius and seating for 594 with an attached circus school.
• An exhibition gallery with two rooms measuring 625 and 530 m2.
• A studies building designed for training, production and artistic creation.
• A conference building for congresses and conferences of all types.
• A configurable room with seating for 460, equipped with a telescopic grandstand and removable seating.
• Three levels of parking with 461 places, administrative buildings and a cafeteria complete the large group.

The schedule for building is 38 months and work will be finished by 2010. The total built up area is some 67,000 m2 with another 44,000 m2 of exterior landscape spaces. The project includes 13,937 m2 of gardens.