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  • Plaza of España de Adeje

    Museo Sacro y Plaza

    Awards: 2006 Sacred Museum Competition, 1st place Public Urban Space European Award 2012. 7th Edition finalist Winner of two WAF Award: New & Old Category and Director’s Award Description: In the project, a great public space is generated in the surface: the main square of this touristic city, and an underground space for the ne…

  • Espacio Cultural el Tanque

    “From industrial Heritage to cultural space” Awards: 1st prize, Canarias de Arquitectura Award Awarded by FADs, Barcelona Laus de diseño Award,Barcelona Description: The neighbourhood of Cabo-Llanos in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Oil Refinery are a part of the city’s historical landscape during this century. It is about an old industrial neighbourhood dedicated to…

  • Parque Cuchillitos de Tristan

    Awards: Manuel de Oraá Award, 2008 Competition for the Redaction of the Project, 2006 1st place Description:   The site stands on the boundary between various densely populated districts (Las Delicias, The Ofra estate and, to a lesser degree, el Camino del Hierro) and forms part of a pocket leisure spaces that characterize  this urban…

  • casa mm

    Casa MM

    MM HOUSE Awards: 1999 FAD Award “Casa MM” 1998 1st Prize Manuel Oráa Award for “Casa MM” Description: On one hand, the staircase hangs up from the roof by tubes and metal sheet, retrieved from dismantled oil tanks, to which metal made steps are soldered, and covered with concrete using the remains of short steel…

  • Piscina Natural en el Océano Atlántico, El Guincho

    Southern Tenerife El Guincho Natural Swimming Pool redirects the energies found in the well known force of the Atlantic Ocean to fill and renew the volume of water that supplies the pool in a natural way. Again, a low cost architecture case and social architecture also. For the construction of this sustainable and healthy work…

  • Jardín Botánico de la Orotava

    Awards: 1er Prize, International Architecture Competition Description: La Orotava Botanical Garden is one of the touristic, historical, cultural and environmental emblems of Tenerife Island. The garden rises with an architectural project that presents a circuit through the different areas containing the various environments of the garden, delicately connecting the urban context with the natural environment…

  • Colegio Mayor Universitario San Agustín

    La Laguna City, World Heritage by UNESCO Awards: Manuel Oraa Architecture Award Description: The university building takes up the entire perimeter of the plot looking for the best development of its wings which enclose a large central yard and gardens, following traditional guidelines of the global and historical city where it is located, and being…

  • Nuevo Edificio de Los Juzgados de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

    The building is an emblematic, accessible to the citizens; justice as one of the pillars on which society relies. The building’s image, solid but at the same time transparent, coincides with the own justice principles. The project aimed to find a solution for the exterior of the building and which could fulfill the image of…

  • Proa Building

    Architects: Fernando Menis, Felipe Artengo, José Mª Rodríguez-Pastrana Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Spain Use: Residential Client: Comunidad de Bienes Proa Status: Built. 1994 A single volume of moulded bare concrete creates a strongly independent building, with presence.The functional requirements include three parking levels in the basement, commercial premises on the ground floor and twenty…

  • Vivienda Moscardó

    Located in a high society residential area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, next to the prestigious Mencey Hotel follows the principles of the organic and natural architecture of Menis, which integrate into one unit (house) the environmental factors of the place, use and functionality, native materials, the location, the construction process, respect for the existing…