Luis Alemany / Source: The World
05/05/2025
Valencia will premiere in September the most modern infrastructure for basketball and music that has been built in our country.
The Roig Arena appears as nothing, despite its colossal scale: 450 meters perimeter, 47,000 square meters built, facade of ceramic scales and irregular shapes, at the same time sculptural and porous. In one of its chaflanes, the building opens as if it were the mouth of the whale of the stories. Above, the sign that announces it is composed of a typography that evokes the Rock’n’roll discs of the 50s. The roig of the name refers, of course, Juan Roig, the founder of Mercadona, who has promoted the building according to a complex administrative formula: the land is municipal; The investment (280 million euros) has been put by its social work, called Juan Roig and Hortensia Herrero; Another private company created by Roig will manage and profitable the building; and the City Council will retain its property and recover the exploitation rights in 2075.
The works began in the spring of the pandemic and did not stop despite the disruption and inflation of the construction materials. Five and a half years later, on September 12, Valencia will premiere the largest and most modern auditorium covered in Spain.
Hok, an architects office in the United States, prepared the idea on which the Roig Arena has been built. And Erre, a Valencia -based architecture study that has already designed projects for the Roig family and Valencia Basket, developed and directed the construction process of Roig Arena …
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