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   Spain   Located in Badalona, the Contemporary Culture Center of El Carmen, which borrows its name from the old maternity hospital that used to take up the plot, occupies the corner of Francesc Layret and Sant Francesc d’Assís streets, very close to the Town

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

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   Inthe north of the city of Tarragona, the campus of Sant Pere de Sescelades extends its facilities and so consolidates the presence of the University Rovira i Virgili in the capital, where it already has eight academic centers – aside from another tw

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   Los centros históricos de muchas ciudades comparten el mismo problema: hacer compatible el tráfico rodado con el de los peatones. En el caso de Toledo, estos problemas vienen agravados por la topografía escarpada sobre la que se asienta la ciudad. In

Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres   Spain   In 1784, the ramp that led from the Ibiza cathedral to the castle which crowns Dalt Vila, the old city, was demolished. The staircase erected as a substitute has now been replaced by another one which allows access to the gate of the Moorish city wal

After 130 years as a private house, Casa Vicens in the city of Barcelona – Antoni Gaudí’s first built work and a UNESCO World Heritage Site – will this coming autumn be opening as a museum, thanks to the painstaking and bias-free restoration and reno

Martínez Lapeña y Torres 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, but which is still the most prestigious award in Spai

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

The patrimonial wealth of some European countries is a historic and artistic heritage that is not always easy to reconcile with the limited funding made available for their protection and the abundance of new symbolical and recreational demands. On r

Economic and normative limitations make social housing an extraordinarily constrained playing-field in which one must, moreovery defer to extremely rigid rules. The forced practitioners of this strict discipline always deserve additional points when

The welfare state - already under threat in Europe with Spain hardly beginning to enjoy the fruits of its conquests - leaves in its wake an abundance of architectural testimonies to the endeavor to give citizens the means by which to cultivate the bo

The residential field nowadays is not the most propitious laboratory for innovation or experimentation. Keeping within a panorama of solid conventions, the following projects are characterized by typological realism and urbanistic good sense. The stu

In a territory like Spain’s so impressively rich in historical strata memory is always multi-faceted. Classical and modern references are able to coexist with a vernacular tradition that remains very vigorous even in the vicinities of a metropolis li

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