Lecoc: Valencian Architects Win IF Award

The Valencian architecture firm Lecoc Arquitectura has won the IF Design Award thanks to its project to build an oncological hospital in Oran, Algeria.

The Oncopole L’Espoir hospital was one of 10,000 projects submitted by architects from 52 countries, judged by a panel of 98 experts.

Lecoc opened for business in 2017, and is the brainchild of Alicia Medrano and Fernando Pedrosa, both of whom trained at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

IF has existed since 1953 and this year’s prizes were awarded in Hannover, Germany.

The company has already developed projects in other European countries and the new one in Algeria is the third in that country.

Lecoc proposes an essential approach in its projects, its own signature, an honest and essential architecture, understandable, but at the same time daring, because it does not play with ornaments or superfluous elements, but presents its work in its essence, naked, exposed.

In this way they return to the values of an architecture that is sincere because it is true, because it transmits the deepest part of the essence of man. For Lecoc that is what architecture should be. That is why -inspired by nature, its light, the nuances of its materiality- they rescue the depth of its meaning and turn it into essential architecture, which appeals to the senses.

Projects that allow us to adapt to the location, to the needs of the clients and users of the spaces, projecting solutions anywhere in the world, respecting the roots and the essence of each culture : Valencia, Algiers, Oran, Madrid, Mallorca, Berlin, etc.