The Spanish National Heritage has awarded FCC Construcción the contract to build phase two of the Museum of Royal Collections for 25.5 million euro.

FCC Construcción has handled the first phase of the job, which will be completed this month and consists in building the retaining walls and preparing the site. The second phase of work includes putting up the structure, which will be built of white concrete, with marble aggregate and cement of hte same colour. The completion period will run to 14 months.

The new museum, designed by architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, will stand in the centre of Madrid, just southwest of the Royal Palace, between the Plaza de la Armería and Almudena Cathedral. It will have a floor area of 46,000 square metres, which will house a set of works of art, household goods, weapons, tapestries and other items that constitutes the world's leading royal collection.

The new museum will become a worldwide standard-setter for display spaces built in the twenty-first century, and it will be a key part of the peerless array of museums on offer in Spain's capital.