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THE POWER OF WOMEN IN
ARCHITECTURE Laura Jiménez Conde & Kristina O. Bråteng, By Nok’s Super Women
Sitting before Laura Jiménez Conde and Kristina Bråteng is a real treat. They are the Directors of the Architecture and Design department in By Nok and they are role models for every woman, an icon for the new equality in the Architecture industry where it is still very difficult for a woman to breach what has traditionally been a male-dominated field.
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lthough By Nok may be relatively new to the Costa del Sol, its CEO & Founder, Armando Gómez Trigueros, and part of the current team, have more than 30 years of experience and in record
time they have converted By Nok to become one of the leading companies on Costa del Sol focused on Design, Architecture, Construction and Real Estate Development. By Nok is a company born from the fusion between Ajea Invest, Norwegian Investment Fund and Bänsae Desarrollos, with highly experienced staff in the real estate market, developing more than 5,000 houses during this time. Laura, the General Director of the Architecture Department, is an experienced Architect with more than 150 projects in her portfolio, who obtained her Architecture degree in Seville in 2001. She commenced
her career with Armando in 2002 and, as she explains, “Back then we used to dedicate ourselves to construction exclusively, but then in 2004, our CEO launched an Architecture Department to enable us to offer a fully integrated service to our clients. Since then, this has been the key to our success.” Laura moved to Murcia in 2005 where the company’s headquarters were located. After the financial crisis had commenced, and during all this period, there was more work in Murcia than on the Coast. She designed and led hundreds of construction projects, from apartment buildings, villas, hotels, offices, shopping centres and even public buildings. In 2008, during the peak of the crisis, Laura returned to Marbella to manage a range of projects. Then in 2013, a new enterprise arose, underlining the beginning of a new era, primarily owing to the visionary thinking of its CEO.
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