This week, the Town Council announced the results of the architectural competition for the planning of the seafront in A Pobra do Caramiñal, launched in June 2025.

The winning project, submitted by the team formed by María Fandiño and LandLab, proposes a delicate and measured intervention, with clear technical viability, committed to preserving the identity of the town without renouncing to the transformative power of the intervention.

The jury, chaired by the mayor of A Pobra and composed of Alfonso Salgado (Salgado e Liñares), Elizabeth Abalo (Abalo Alonso Arquitectos), Marcial Rodríguez (RVR Arquitectos), Ana Fernández (Galician Association of Civil Engineers), the town architect, Carlos Bóveda, and Adrián Juan Márquez Caramés as secretary of the jury, awarded the proposal the highest score among the 15 entries received.

The winning team will receive a prize of €20,000 on account of the award of the contract for the drafting of the Master Plan. The finalist teams —Javier Rocamonde and Rodríguez + Pintos architects— will receive prizes of €8,000 and €5,000 respectively, in recognition of their work.

In this process, Fundación RIA coordinated the call for proposals, provided technical support and participated in public communication. It was also responsible for drafting the competition’s base document, based on work begun in 2018 in collaboration with the Galician Infrastructure Agency (AXI) to analyse the integration of the AC-305 road into the region’s urban centres.