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Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza
- Year: 2009
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Photographs:Javier Callejas
Text description provided by the architects. The project “Between Cathedrals” seeks to create an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space facing the sea located between the Old and New Cathedrals.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e0e9/28ba/0d27/a700/09ca/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024701)
The basic premise is to cover and protect an archeological excavation. Additionally, this new plane serves as a base for a space facing the ocean, a raised public space providing clear views unobstructed by cars passing on the circle road.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Glass, Column, Handrail, Coast](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e0e0/28ba/0d27/a700/09c8/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024709)
A light, white platform is thus conceived, poised over the excavation as if on tiptoe, and reached by a side ramp. Over this plane, a huge canopy structure is built to provide protection from the sun and rain.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e11b/28ba/0d27/a700/09d5/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024705)
Constructed as if it were a ship, it is painted completely white to accentuate its lightness. The paved area is carpeted in white marble.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Coast](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e117/28ba/0d27/a700/09d4/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024724)
In the construction of the base; the memory of ships. In that of the shade structure, as if it were a baldachin; the memory of a holy week procession.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e112/28ba/0d27/a700/09d3/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024722)
We would like to make a beautiful piece of architecture, worthy of this wonderful place, and worthy of being part of the collective memory of Cadiz.
![Between Cathedrals / Alberto Campo Baeza - Windows, Brick, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5008/e10e/28ba/0d27/a700/09d2/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414024721)