Fernando Menis   Spain   The scheme for two Essential Services Buildings (ESE) in the Canary Islands, drawn by Fernando Menis and his team, has been unveiled. Resulting from a public tender held in 2021, the twin projects are sited on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife

Fernando Menis   South Korea   In the presence of Park Seo-Bo (Yecheon, 1931) – a leading figure of South Korean contemporary art, father of the Dansaekhwa movement of minimalist monochrome painting – the first stone has been laid for the museum that will be home to his legacy, fo

Fernando Menis   Spain   Fernando Menis won the 2019 competition to restore a neo-Gothic building and fit it out for exhibitions in flexible spaces that can be easily adapted to use changes within the cultural typology. Named in honor of the botanist José Viera y Clavijo,

Fernando Menis   Spain   The tourism boom of the recent years has immersed the city of Puerto de la Cruz in a process of urban degradation that is cause for worry. This proposal, winner of a public competition expressly organized to address the situation, arose in response t

Fernando Menis   Russia   The creation of the Zim district in the historical Russian city of Samara, close to the Volga, makes for greater vitality and connectivity within an iconic urban environment. The project envisions a self-reliant contemporary center with a new design

Fernando Menis   Making use of the natural topography of the area around the access road, the winery seeks to imitate the lines of the landscape and subtly blend into the environment. Such a strategy of integration is inspired in the nearby medieval fortress-town of

Fernando Menis   Costa Rica   Winner of third prize in an international competition, the project unfolds from two basic actions. One is the extrusion of a cubic element with a twenty-meter edge, in bamboo, whose facades, in rising from the ground, continue the surrounding green c

Fernando Menis   Taiwan   The tower is conceived as a fusion of the nature found in the vicinity of the site and the rocks rising from the terrain. As if they had always been there, both elements create a symbiosis where the petrous volumes and the vegetation come together in

Fernando Menis   Spain   With its privileged location, facing the beaches of the south of the island of Fuerteventura, the building defers to its surroundings by burying itself in the mountain. Access to the complex is natural, through a gap made in the slope that smoothens

Fernando Menis   Switzerland   Through a private investment with profit interests, the project has a strong social character. Besides a hotel, it includes public spaces that connect the municipality of Bürchen to the new tourist complex. In an already completed first phase, two be

Fernando Menis   Poland   Located in the small Polish city of Torun – whose old quarter is on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1997 – the Jordanki Cultural and Congress Center goes up in a green ring around the historic center and looks out onto the river. This strategic

Fernando Menis   Spain   The building in the Balearic island of Tenerife was the winner of an open competition. It seeks to reflect its natural environment of wind, mountain, and light. Moreover, it had to go up in the most economic way possible, but not at the expense of ae

Fernando Menis   Spain   Situated in Adeje, in Tenerife, the Sacred Museum has one foot in heaven and another on earth. Hanging from the slope of Hell’s Gorge, the building is on one side inserted into the characteristic profile of the town, and on the other side is buried,

Fernando Menis Felipe Artengo José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Spain   The Athletics Stadium, with capacity for over 3,000 spectators, functions as a platform to generate a large plaza in the city. It rests on the terrain taking advantage of the slightly sloping topography, blending seamlessly with the environment and e

Fernando Menis Felipe Artengo José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Germany   This project’s aim is to transform the river into a gathering place, a condition it had lost because industrialization had turned it into an unappealing and unhygienic place. Spreebruecke is thus planned as a bridge between the River Spree and Berlin

Fernando Menis   Spain   The park is called Cuchillitos because of the layout of the preliminary design, and Tristán because it is located in an area of Tenerife bearing that name. The plot is situated amid three densely populated neighborhoods in the city, and is part of a

Fernando Menis José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Spain   gh On the coast of Adeje, south of Tenerife, in a touristic site currently under development and marked by the presence of the sea and the nearby mountains, stands the new Congress and Exhibition Center, baptized Magma The project emerges from the

Fernando Menis   Spain   The project reuses a water deposit of the old CEPSA refinery and transforms it into a cultural space that preserves the industrial spirit and heritage of the area. As the immediate environment develops, The Tank Cultural Center takes the stage and wi

Fernando Menis   Spain   Situated opposite a water tank, this site closes the corner of the block with a slatted envelope which remembers the typical bay windows of the ensanche. The top flat is set back, hidden behind its warm skin. Close to the bullring

Felipe Artengo Fernando Menis José María Rodríguez Pastrana AMP Arquitectos   Spain   The Jardín de Aclimatación of La Orotava (Botanic Garden) was founded in 1788 by King Charles III of Spain, with the intention of gathering in the island of Tenerife the exotic plants collected in the Spanish colonies of America and Asia. The extensi

Fernando Menis   Spain   The church of Santísimo Redentor (Most Holy Redeemer) is devoted to the episode of the biblical narration. Located in a plain residential area of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the second largest city in the island of Tenerife, the fractured volumes of

Felipe Artengo Fernando Menis José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Spain   Diseñado como un gran cráter,el nuevo estadio insular aprovecha la pendiente natural del terreno, compensando y economizando los movimientos de tierra, para emplazar los graderíos perimetrales. El edificio deportivo se incorpora al lugar, definiendo

Felipe Artengo Fernando Menis José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Spain   The San Antonio area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is part of a residential periphery that has emerged along the highway linking La Laguna with the capital. With the petrous vocation of a volcanic formation, a building of sixty social housing units rises

Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif

On view from 7 December to 17 January at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin is ‘Menis Backstage: Nature, Culture and Materiality.’ The exhibition delves into the creative processes of the Canarian practice whose architectural work is grounded upo

Víctor Lledó   For the work process of the studio of Fernando Menis to be understood, it has to be experienced. If you immerse yourself in the way the studio designs, you notice that each project is an experiment. If you go through its trajectory, it is clear that

Fernando Menis   This publication is a journey into the work method that we apply in the studio, a tactic which always and as a priority starts off from the angle of respect for and attention to the place we are to build in, and to the client we are working for. Even

Barry Bergdoll   Like the dramatic landscapes of the Canary Islands, Fernando Menis’s buildings – many a long time in gestation from commission to final completion – seem to have been conceived in an eruption of creative energy and then honed over time by forces that

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The work of Fernando Menis combines physical roots and mental freedom, tactile attachment to matter and visual imagination, close ties with the mineral landscape of the Canary Islands and a wide range of references. This unexpected architecture is at

Pablo del Ser   La portada de este libro actúa a modo de anticipo o de manifiesto de su contenido. Esto es así no sólo por la ilustración de estratos minerales volcánicos, que nos remite de inmediato al abrupto paisaje canario, sino por su utilización sutil de la te

El Museo Sacro de Adeje, Tenerife, diseñado por Fernando Menis, tiene un pie en el cielo y otro en la tierra. Colgado de la ladera del Barranco del Infierno, el edificio se inserta, por un lado, en el característico perfil del pueblo, enterrándose, p

El tinerfeño Fernando Menis ha resultado ganador del concurso internacional convocado para la construcción del centro cultural polifuncional Jordanek en la ciudad de Torun, Polonia. Su propuesta deja como parque la mitad del solar y divide el program

Covadonga Lorenzo   La arquitectura del canario Fernando Menis contiene la esencia del paisaje tinerfeño, enraizado sobre la masa estructural de su núcleo basáltico y dominado por el cono de cenizas del Teide. Así lo demuestran las formas del Estadio de Atletismo de Ten

Adela García-Herrera   Los tinerfeños Felipe Artengo, Fernando Menis y José María Pastrana han hecho del paisaje de su isla un argumento para sus proyectos. AMP van a su aire, despreocupados al parecer de un contexto dominado por la pasión fría de los suizos y el pragmatis

Seoul  2011  
Archilife   - 316 Pages 

Fernando Menis   Architect. Reason + Emotion

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