Beautell Arquitectos   Spain   Since the closure, for security reasons, of the old Alcalá Church – finally demolished in 2011 – the neighbors have been determined to rebuild it. In response to this social demand, the Parish of Candelaria, the Bishopric, the regional Government, an

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   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 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 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

Juan Antonio González Pérez Urbano Yanes Tuña GPY Arquitectos   Spain   The plot where the new School of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna goes up, to the northeast of the island of Tenerife, is adjacent to the TF-5 highway, and is physically separated from the current university campus of Guajara by an avenue wit

GPY Arquitectos   Spain   This new university research center rises on a plot of land with crops growing around it, arranged in patches of the kind which are traditional in the Canary Islands. This organization in terraced platforms also inspired the shape of the building. Th

Corona Amaral Arquitectos   Spain   The municipality of Tacoronte is located in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, twenty kilometers from the capital, taking up an area that extends from the volcanic peaks to the seashore. The increasing flow of tourists has encouraged the cr

Virgilio Gutiérrez Eustaquio Martínez García   Spain   This residential development gave the opportunity to develop a new design for an existing project, with municipal approval and that includes the construction of 18 apartments by the sea, south of the island of Tenerife and close to the airport. The

AMP Arquitectos   Spain   Forty kilometers from Santa Cruz, the municipality of La Orotava contains the valley by the same name through which one ascends to the top of the Teide and to a villa with a long history, known for its architecture of large houses and gardens dotting

Jordi Garcés Enric Sòria   Spain   The large oval exhibition hall constitutes the heart of the project, with the various ancillary premises distributed along the irregular peripheral fringe of the building, on two levels. The Science Museum of Tenerife is located o

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

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

Virgilio Gutiérrez   Al sur de Tenerife, junto a un parque tecnológico donde se investigan las energías renovables, se ha inaugurado una colonia experimental de viviendas adaptadas al entorno. 

La remodelación del entorno de la Basílica de la Candelaria, en el municipio homónimo de la isla de Tenerife, en Canarias, llevará la firma de los arquitectos César Ruiz-Larrea y Eustaquio Martínez, ganadores del concurso convocado por el Cabildo de