The Niemeyer Cultural Centre is due to open in summer 2010As the €30m Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre in Avilés—a coastal city in Asturias, northern Spain—inches closer to completion in summer 2010 (The Art Newspaper, April 2008, p13), the Asturian councillor of culture Mercedes Alvarez has said that it will be “an important asset” in the city’s candidacy for European Capital of Culture in 2016. The 50,000 sq. m complex is being constructed on a former industrial site, and Francisco González, the Asturian councillor of infrastructure, territorial politics and housing, has said that it will also include a port for cruise ships—although this has yet to be approved, according to Pedro Zuazua, director of communications at the centre.
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