Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   THE PROPOSAL for the Lalín Town Hall moves between precision and probability, building an antimonumental structure in which, as with clouds, each one can recognize the changing forms starting from personal references, so that collective identificatio

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   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

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   Very close to Atocha station, the old El Águila brewery is a reflection of the recent past of Arganzuela, today a residential district in the south of Madrid that was once characterized by its industrial fabric. The construction of its main buildings

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   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

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   The barrié de la Maza Foundation takes up the courtyard and the small bay, parallel to the street, of a building designed by the architect Manuel Gómez Román in 1919. The reduced dimensions of the site, a rectangle measuring 25x15 meters, have been c

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   Outside town, and situated beneath the collapsing wall overlooking the Duero River, the museum presents itself to the city of Zamora as a coffer containing its jewels and memory. Its bold and cubic form, inserted in the middle of a sloping urban bloc

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   The San Fernando de Henares Swimming Center completes a municipal sports facility composed of different constructions meshed by the passage of time. The complex, set outside of the urban center, northeast of the city, is developed along Pine Promenad

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   Inscribed within the uniform layout of the urban center of Castellón, the new Museum of Fine Arts is raised over the remains of the old school Serra Espadá, taking up almost the entire plot. The canonical division in four groups of uses exhibition, a

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   The Museum of Cantabria strives to resemble the mountains that can be seen on a clear day beyond the Las Llamas valley – a new urban park in the heart of Santander –, with their uneven but similar outlines. Instead of the classical composition mechan

Mansilla + Tuñón   China   The house is imagined as a clearing in the woods bound by two perimeters: the interior one, continuous and transparent, holds the structure; the exterior one, beyond the first, is formed from a bamboo screen. The volume is defined by a fluid border t

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   THE PROPOSAL for the Lalín Town Hall moves between precision and probability, building an antimonumental structure in which, as with clouds, each one can recognize the changing forms starting from personal references, so that collective identificatio

Museo de Colecciones Reales / Palacio de Congresos de Palma Since 1993, the CSCAE (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes) bestows the National Award for Architecture to singular works that entail an innovative contribution and are paradigmat

Royal Collections Museum The FAD Award for Architecture in 2017 went to the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid, by Mansilla + Tuñón. According to the jury, chaired by Belén Moneo, it “masterfully delivers an architecture which is timeless and sedate,

Every two years since 1993, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes has given the National Award for Architecture, which has over the years changed in sensibilities but always recognizes exceptional works, buildings that somehow innovate a

Emilio Tuñón   Time is the thread of this essay by Emilio Tuñón which traces the historical footprint of the Royal Palace, explains the concept of the new museum, and remembers his partner Luis Mansilla.

15 Works Awarded The 12th edition of the BEAU (Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism) chose to commend a group category of fifteen works, divided into five categories. The first one – reconversion projects – included the Cineteca in Matadero

The Cineteca at Matadero Madrid was the venue, on 14 November, of the awards ceremony of the 12th Spanish Architecture and Urban Planning Biennial, held under the auspices of Spain’s Public Works Ministry around the theme ‘Inflexión/Turning Point’. 

Atrio Hotel in Cáceres and Two Houses in Lisbon  “A suggestive reinterpretation of the traditional spatial structure of the city houses gives the project great perceptive richness and allows establishing a simple and wise relationship with the climat

Javier Montes   Con la exposición ‘Márgenes de silencio’ se ha inaugurado en Cáceres la primera fase del Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, una sobria rehabilitación a la que seguirá un edificio de nueva planta con jardín.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón are family men. Trained in the familial studio of Rafael Moneo, in 1992 they established their own with the same domestic atmosphere, and during two decades they have engendered a family of architectural forms as

Francesco Dal Co   Modernity has been a universal passion. All modern poets have chased after that magnetic and elusive figure that fascinates them. Baudelaire was the first. He was also the first to touch her and discover that she is nothing but time that crumbles in

Stan Allen   Mansilla & Tuñón’s 2008 competition winning scheme for the Energy Dome of the Soria Environment City begins with a few simple, rule-based operations. The starting point is a half sphere; an easy to describe geometric container, sized to accommoda

La propuesta ‘El cuadrado y la cruz’ del estudio dirigido por Luis Moreno Mansilla y Emilio Tuñón ha resultado ganadora del concurso internacional para la construcción del Museo de la Vega Baja de Toledo, lugar donde se han descubierto recientemente

Patricia Molins   dal 1992