Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Adrià Orriols   Spain   With the idea of recovering the ‘ensemble’ and giving the Monastery a new purpose, the proposal traces a closed perimeter creating a circulation ring around it; the extension, partially buried, connects with the gardens through the roof...

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   Torn down since the end of the 19th century in order to let the city grow, the walls surrounding Palma de Mallorca have preserved to this day a few stretches – those located closer to the sea, towards which the city could not extend further. The fift

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Rafael Moneo   Spain   The building goes up on a triangular plot, next to the Vapor Sampere building, which is one of the most important examples of industrial architecture in the city of Sabadell, and was built at the beginning of the 20th century to provide energy to the

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   All the urban activity that Avenida Diagonal concentrates in its long itinerary through Barcelona’s Ensanche was trapped, transformed and outstretched towards the sea by (as it was tagged during the celebration of the Forum of Cultures) the‘esplanade

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   In the renovation of this house whose main facade looks onto the street San Doménech de Call, in the very heart of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter, bridges serve to connect the past, the present and the future. Ever since its construction – which dates ba

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   Para llevar la Diagonal hasta el mar se tiende una alfombra de difícil geometría que salva la Ronda litoral y oculta parte de la depuradora existente tras sus bordes plegados. Hacia el puerto, la plaza se desfleca en varios dedos miradores rematados

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   High building density, winding layouts and the reduced dimensions of the street pattern recommend to avoid traffic in the historic centers of cities, where passers-by and vehicles are headed towards a difficult coexistence. Besides these traditional

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   The architecture of Elias Torres and Jose' Antonio Martínez Lapeña keeps itself on the brinks of theory or method, escaping the corset and moving freely outside center page. If they had to work over a modular scheme, they would choose the millimeter

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   Thos house was to be built by Erwin Broner, a lively, bohemian German architect and painter who found in Ibiza his garden of the Hesperides and dotted the with white cubist boxes, descendants of a Mediterranean Le Corbusier and of those pioneers of m

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   A trench has been dug around the old Casa de la Ciudad, with doors and windows bored in its walls. The new staircase providing access to the gate in the Moorish rampart allows for coming and going, and features Itialian-ramp steps.

Since 1932 the Spanish Government has given the National Award for Architecture, which has gone through many ups and downs and changes of direction over the years. Since 2001 it has been bestowed not upon a work, but upon an entire career, and since

Adela García-Herrera   Martínez Lapeña y Torres  Of Catalonia's Fomento de las Artes Decorativas awards, granted annually in various categories, the Grand Prizes for Architecture and Opinion bear the most weight. The housing complex of Torres & Martínez Lapeña at the Olymp

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