• Sports The historic Nevera del Ramiro de Maeztu collapses due to snow: "It's a catastrophe"

On January 11, 2021, the enormous amount of snow that Filomena left in Madrid destroyed the roof of La Nevera, a basketball temple in the capital linked to the Estudiantes and sports spaces of the Ramiro de Maeztu public institute. Two years later, the pavilion begins to glimpse the possibility of a new life after being demolished entirely by the Community of Madrid, which has the competences from the Ministry of Education.

Sources of the regional government point out that the contracting of the works, whose investment will amount to 4.2 million euros, will be effective in "the next dates" so that the reconstruction works begin after the summer. A project that will substantially change the previous structure since it will now be an independent building that will be connected to the institute through a walkway that will reach the Secondary area. In the Ministry of Education indicate that "this will allow there to be a rigorous separation of the circuits to divide the access of the students and that of the young people of the student club".

In the new independent building, whose volume will increase with respect to the demolished, a main basketball court, two smaller transversal ones, the stands and the changing rooms will be built so that it continues to function as an endowment for the center and as a space for the quarry of the historic club. Taking advantage of this circumstance, the regional government will also reform the Ramiro de Maeztu, redistributing the Department of Plastic Arts; improving accessibility at the entrances, main passage areas and toilets, and building an exterior elevator for the Secondary building.

Another novelty that will have the pavilion that will be built is the air conditioning system, which will focus on a sustainability criterion. For this, the Community of Madrid will install photovoltaic panels that allow the space to generate its own energy and will use the model of ventilated facades using stone plates to improve insulation and promote energy savings.

The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso proceeded to the demolition of La Nevera just 10 days later, in January 2021, when its structure was seriously damaged by the storm, a process that amounted to 190,000 euros. Thedelay in the start-up of the new building provoked criticism from those responsible for the center when the students did not have a space for their sports activities and the Students for a similar reason that affected the players of their quarry.

In fact, two weeks after the roof suffered structural damage, the regional president met at the Real Casa de Correos with representatives of both the educational center and the basketball club. At that meeting, the regional government pledged to invest at least one and a half million euros for reconstruction, a budget that will eventually triple, according to the forecasts they handle in the Puerta del Sol to give a new life to the historic pavilion.

In that space, the Estudiantes, now in low hours wandering through the second category of national basketball, got two league runners-up in the 60s. And from his track emerged legends such as players Felipe Reyes, Alberto Herreros or Fernando Martín and from the benches such as former coaches Pepu Hernández or Aito García Reneses.

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