A concrete rectangle reaching into the water marks the beginning of the Zorrotzaurre peninsula, Bilbao’s most anticipated urban development project, which has already witnessed many acts of intervention and preservation since its past as one of the city’s key industrial areas. Behind it, the mountains and rising buildings signal a city growing vertically and evolving much like the island itself.
While the background is in constant changes, offering the city and its inhabitants a new horizon to look at, the concrete rectangle stands as a silent, durable base, at times revealing and hiding part of its depth with the ebb and flow of the Nervión. This concrete square serves as a foundation, a base for what may be built above and the changes to come.