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The Metropol Parasol almost didn't happen. When excavations began in Seville's Plaza de la Encarnación in 1999 for an underground car park, workers uncovered the remains of a Roman settlement — the discovery stalled the project for years and fundamentally changed it. Jürgen Mayer H.'s design incorporated those ruins into a museum at basement level and raised everything else on a dramatic wooden structure above. Completed in 2011, the Metropol Parasol is one of the largest wooden structures in the world — a latticed canopy of FSC-certified Baltic pine, polyurethane-coated, undulating above the old city like something that grew there rather than was built. Shot from directly below, the lattice opens around an oval of deep blue sky — the structure framing the Andalusian light that architects have been working with in this city for centuries.
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