The project for the Amador Vineyards transforms the ruins of one of few winery-houses still standing in the center of the village of Cacabelos, a municipality in León province along which the French Way of St. James passes. The new program comprises
The project ‘Stone and Earth’ – drawn up by Gon Architects, the Madrid practice of Gonzalo Pardo Díaz – has won the competition coordinated by the León Institute of Culture for the purpose of building a research center and visitor reception facility
In this intervention, for which they have won the 2020 FAD Award for City and Landscape, Iñigo Ocamica and Iñigo Tudanca reinterpret the Castile-León landscape with different types of aggregate concrete for Plaza de la Fuente.
The Santa Elvira sugar refinery was, since the early 20th century until its closing in 1992, one of the key economic motors of the city. The site where the old factory building was located was the place designated for the construction of the new Conv
The Descendientes de J. Palacios Winery was located in the town of Villafranca del Bierzo. Its facilities were spread in different structures and warehouses, so it became necessary to reconfigure and gather them all in one building. The desire to ble
Ten years after the French architect won the first prize in the architectural competition called by the Town Hall, the construction of the Convention Center and Exhibition Hall of León is now reaching its final stages. The project is a key urban inte
The new student residence in León, designed by the Madrid-based architects Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, seeks maximum advantage of space using strategies to combine programs and optimize resources. The rooms are distributed on the perimeter of a
The MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León) takes up a flat and large surface in the center of León, not too far away from the Plaza de San Marcos and the Ciudad de León Auditorium, and not too far from its emblematic cathedral. The bui
The complex formed by the Parador of San Marcos and the sixteenth century bridge by the same name constitutes the main reference of the parcel where the new auditorium of León has been raised, a plot of difficult borders whose construction will allow
Located on a strategic site across from the AVE station, the sugar refinery of Santa Elvira is ready to start working again. The project links two differentiated spaces that, in a symbiotic manner, serve and complement one another. In the first place
En 1998 la Universidad de León convocó tres concursos independientes para la construcción de sendos edificios del campus del Bierzo en Ponferrada: la biblioteca central, la cafetería y el centro de servicios generales. La propuesta ganadora integraba
Located next to a residential quarter formed by open blocks of recent construction, the plot chosen to raise the municipal morgue of León did not seem at first to be the most appropriate one to house such function. Therefore, to create an environment
Aunque objeto de sucesivos agregados, la facultad de Biología del campus del Vegazana manifiesta un claro principio de ordenación. Tres pastillas paralelas y dos transversales se organizan según una retícula, que omite uno de sus tramos para acoger u
This project won first prize in an ideas competition that the University of León held in September 1996 to obtain an architect for its Research and Environment Institute. The brief called for economy, optimization of resources, functionality and low
During the years immediately preceding this project Alejandro de la Sota found himself deprived of the opportunity to build. Still he held on to his smiling intransigence when once again given the chance to construct a clear-cut, compact and flexible
Located since 2008 in the former schools of Cerezales del Condado, a town located 23 kilometers away from León, in the northwest of Spain, the Cerezales Antonino and Cinia Foundation is a private institution, focused on the development of the territo
Promoted by the late Antonino Fernández, one of the principal proprietors of the Mexican business group Modelo (distributor of ‘Coronita’), the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) has dedicated its new headquarters in the brewer’s native tow
The people of León claim to bask in the sun. Against the frozen image of the Castilian-Leonese winter, the inhabitants of the city founded by the 7th Roman Legion remind the visitor that it is among the Spanish capitals that boast the most hours of s
A pesar de que el canon museístico del arte contemporáneo se ejemplifica en el MoMA de Nueva York, abierto al público en 1929 con la perspectiva de fundamentar un modelo de comprensión de la vanguardia, es interesante recordar que no fue ésta la pri
