The architecture of the Kursaal is born of a very precise place, the mouth of the Urumea River, and it may not be a figure of speech to say that it is this geographical feature that inspires it. Accepting as a starting point that the urban factory could not be extended, the deliberate oblivion of conventional architecture was advocated, seeking as an alternative a building that would maintain the character of geographical feature that the site had.

And so arose the two cubes, abstract volumes capable of absorbing and containing the program, inscribing themselves in the landscape, acknowledging the presence of Mount Urgull and Mount Uría: the cubes, like two gigantic stranded rocks that pay tribute to geography with the visible wink that one and the other make to the two aforementioned mountains.