September 2024
GPY’s Faculty of Fine Arts building forms part of a selection for the New Brutalism edition of Arketipo, International Review of Architecture and Building Engineering, n. 176, 2024. Article by Chiara Salvini. Link
You can read the magazine online: Link
6 february 2024
The Tenerife School of Dramatic Arts & Faculty of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna: stages of Mango’s PV2024 campaign.
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=6EqGgXrJUwI | Making Of: tiktok.com/@mango/video/7333575254301855008
17 december 2023
GPY Arquitectos at the web launch of ES_ARQ, the online platform of the ‘Casa de la Arquitectura’, Madrid.
Link: lacasadelaarquitectura.es/en/todo?searchMeta=%22GPY%20Arquitectos%22
14 september, 2023
Federico Sánchez’s adventure at the Faculty of Fine Arts, ULL: RTVE - Canas de viajar, Episode: Tenerife.
Link: rtve.es/play/videos/canas-de-viajar/tenerife/6968731/
28 June 2023
On the occasion of the presentation of the book ‘Costa del Silencio’ (Tercero Incluido, 2023), Juan Antonio González will talk with its author, Julio Hardisson Guimerà, about topics related to architecture, urbanism and landscape, linked to to the ensembles of the Ten-Bel tourist complex in Costa del Silencio.
Location: Biblioteca de Arte (Planta 0). TEA Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Date: Thursday, 29 June, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Link: https://teatenerife.es/actividad/costa-del-silencio-de-julio-hardisson-guimera/2742
26 june 2023
Book presentation: “Turismo. Paisaje. Futuro. Hacia una transición turística en Canarias” (Tourism. Landscape. Future. Towards a tourism transition in the Canary Islands), edited by the Canary Islands Government. In her article “Miradas proyectuales al paisaje litoral. Canarias orientales.” (Project views of the coastal landscape. Eastern Canaries), Elisenda Monzón reflects on “project views that are in search of essence of the coastal landscape”. The selection of projects includes the New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space.
16 June 2023
Coming soon: The new Proarquitectura Yearbook of Spanish Architecture Studios, featuring GPY.
Links: www.proarquitectura.es/guiade-estudios-de-arquitectura/
Linkedin: Proarquitectura | Instagram: @rproarquitectura | Twitter: @proarquitectur | Facebook: Revista Proarquitectura
14 December 2022
Tomorrow, 15 December 2022, 6pm GMT / UTC +0 :
Ventos de África - Winds from Africa: Alisios. El paisaje insular como estrategia. We will give an online-talk within the series PRAXIS of the Architectural Design Department, Universidade de Lisboa.
Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97066925361
29 September 2022
Ventos de África - Winds from Africa.
Series of 20’ (video) conferences of the project ‘PRAXIS. Architecture Practice and Learning’, October - December, 2022: 6:00H PM (GMT+1H) 18:00H (GMT+1H) Link Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97066925361
Curator: Nuno Montenegro. With: José Aguiar, Nuno Mateus, Tiago Mota Saraiva, Jorge Mealha. Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa.
24 June 2022
Spain-Korea Best Architecture 25+25 2022
GPY Arquitectos takes part in the Spain-Korea Best Architecture Exhibition, organised by the Architecture Design Institute of Korea (ADIK), the Architects’ Association of Madrid (COAM), under the auspices of the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Embassy of Spain in Korea, the Embassy of Korea in Spain and the Instituto Cervantes in Seoul. The exhibition, which features outstanding works of 25 Korean and 25 Spanish Architecture studios will be on show at the Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture until 14 July 2022.
7 March 2022
The New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space in ‘Global Design News’.
14 September 2021
The New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space, Honorable Mention of THE PLAN Award 2021 Renovation category.
23 August 2021
The New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space, winner of the International Architecture Awards 2021, organised by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The International Architecture Awards are the world’s oldest and most prestigious global architecture awards for the best new buildings and urban planning projects from over 35 nations.
The award winning entries will be featured in an exhibition in Athens, Greece. Opening: 10 September 2021.
5 August 2021
The New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space has been shortlisted in the Cultural venues category in the World Interior News WIN Awards 2021.
21 July 2021
The New Casa de Los Volcanes Exhibition Space: The Plan Award - shortlisted project.
Vote here for the ‘Community Award’: https://www.theplan.it/award-2021-renovation/the-new-casa-de-los-volcanes-exhibition-space-los-jameos-del-agua-gpy-arquitectos
9 June 2021
Cultural Dates: Casa de Los Volcanes, Haría (Lanzarote) in AV Monographs. Spain 2021.
10th December 2020
Casa de Los Volcanes New Exhibition Space, Los Jameos del Agua, in Arquitectura Viva.
13th November 2020
Until 20th November: ‘Creando Espacios’, exhibition by J.M. Oller at the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
November 5th 2020
Online conference at the Departament of Art & Architecture, Escuela Técnica de Arquitectura, Universidad de Málaga. November 5th 2020, 7pm CET.
https://meet.google.com/jzs-cjdq-nao
16th August 2020
The MIAC Castillo de San José has received an IAA International Architecture Award 2020 by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, a “distinguished building awards program that honours new and cutting-edge design worldwide. This annual program also promotes international architecture and design to our public audience globally” (text by the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies). The project will be on show at the awards exhibition “The City and the World” at The Contemporary Space, Athens, until 25th October 2020 and will be published in the awards’ catalogue ‘New International Architecture 2020 | Global Design + Urbanism XX’.
9th July 2020
‘A toast to all that unites us’. The commercial spot for Dorada & Tropical was filmed at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
June 12th, 2020
The Cultural Department of the Architects’ Association of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro (COAC) is offering the documentary ‘GPY Arquitectos’, belonging to the series ‘Tenerife Espacios de Arquitectura’ (Production: COAC / Lasal). The video, presented by Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero, features interviews with Juan Antonio González, Félix Perera and Urbano Yanes. From Friday 12th to Sunday 14th June on YouTube, channel: COACTFE Arquitectos de Tenerife.
May 18th, 2020
Filming for the new Porsche 911 Targa spot took place at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
14th April 2020
Our project for the MIAC Castillo de San José museum extension has been nominated for participation in the German Design Award 2021. Organised by the German Design Council, this award distinguishes “pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape” (www.german-design-award.com).
October 4th, 2019
Presentation of the first local Architecture Prize catalogue ‘Primer Premio de Arquitectura del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Tenerife, La Gomera y El Hierro Manuel Oráa y Arcocha 08/17’ at the Tenerife Association of Architects, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
March 7th, 2019
GPY Arquitectos was awarded the S.ARCH Conceptual Design Award 2019 for its proposed extension to the International Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, MIAC), which forms part of the island of Lanzarote’s network of Art, Culture and Tourism Centres. The award was granted in recognition of a design that intensifies the relationship between architecture, heritage and landscape in the island context of Lanzarote. GPY Arquitectos’s proposal for the new Headquarters of the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve was also selected as a finalist in the same category of ‘Conceptual Design’.
February 8th, 2019
At the ceremony awarding the Gold Medal of the Architects’ Association of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro to Javier Díaz-Llanos and Vicente Saavedra, Juan Antonio González, the author of the book Díaz-Llanos / Saavedra, the third in a series of monographs on major figures of 20th-century Canary Island architecture, gave a presentation on the life and works of these Tenerife architects. The event was held at the headquarters of the Architects’ Association in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a building designed by Díaz-Llanos and Saavedra in the late 1960s.
December 2018
Our design won first prize in the design competition organised by the Fuerteventura Island Council for the Headquarters of the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve. The design reinterprets the elements of the island’s traditional water engineering techniques, such as collection points, irrigation ditches and cisterns, to produce an artificial topography that conceals the building’s main functional areas underground, all topped by a lightweight, funnel-shaped canopy that provides climate control and acts as a landmark for the area.
October 5th, 2018
The Vecindario Security Centre in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, was awarded the first annual Architecture Award Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre MMFT 2018.
This award, sponsored by the Gran Canaria Architects’ Association, was granted in recognition of GPY Arquitectos’ creative design. In its assessment of the Security Centre, the jury highlighted the building’s “integration into its surroundings, its ability to revitalise and strengthen the urban space and immediate environment, and its contemporary feel and expressive character.”
October 5th, 2018
The Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna was awarded the 2018 Manuel de Oráa Award by the Architects’ Association of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro, in the category of New projects: other uses, an award it shared with the TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes by Herzog & de Meuron and Virgilio Gutierrez. In explaining its decision to award the prize to the Faculty of Fine Arts, the jury highlighted the building’s “economy of material and formal resources in a hostile environment located just off a motorway and in an unused corner of the university campus” and its “ability to stand out on many different scales with a calligraphy that creates its own environment, while constituting an innovative design for university buildings”.
In the same competition, the Factoría de Innovación Turística FIT in Adeje received an Honourable Mention in the category of Interior design.
November 8th, 2018
The short film Escenas Urbanas by Constanze Sixt, produced with Andrzej Gwizdala and Yeru García with the assistance of the students of architecture of the Universidad Europea de Canarias, was awarded first prize in the Entreplanos 2 audiovisual competition. This competition, organised by the Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea with the support of the Department of Culture of the Cordoba Provincial Council, aims to “foster reflection and debate on urban realities while encouraging citizens to participate in artistic creation and incorporate new technologies into their everyday lives as tools for creating, exploring and disseminating contemporary ideas”.
October 3rd, 2018
Architecture Week 2018 COAC Tenerife, La Gomera y El Hierro: Walking with Constanze Sixt through the public spaces of the El Toscal neighbourhood in search of ‘soundprints’
March 19th, 2018
The ATC Agencia de Tránsitos Culturales project space is displaying Huellas, an exhibit in progress by Constanze Sixt, as part of its series on Deserving Architecture. Collaboration: Andrzej Gwizdala. Until 21 Abril.
March 8th, 2018
The image of the University of La Laguna’s SEGAI Research Support Services Building is featured on the poster for the exhibit examining the institution’s past and future, currently showing at the Centro de Arte Juan Ismael in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, from 8 to 15 March.
February 2018
Honourable Mention. Architectural Design Competition, Małopolska Science Center, Krakow.
January 2018
The Faculty of Fine Arts in Brutalism Now and Then (Braun Publishing). Link
October 21th, 2017
Juan Antonio González Pérez and Constanze Sixt were invited by the Madeira Architects’ Association (OASRS Ordem dos Arquitectos, Secção Regional Sul, Delegação da Madeira) to speak at the International Conference of Architecture for Education (Arquitectura para o Ensino). The event, which is intended to contribute to the current debate on the quality of educational architecture in Portugal, was held on 21 October in the Teatro Baltazar Dias, Funchal. Guests included renowned experts in educational architecture, such as Gonçalo Canto Moniz, a university professor and researcher at the University of Coimbra, the architects José Neves and Pedro Machado Costa from Lisbon, and the Dutch architect Robert Alewijnse, co-director of the architecture firm DP6 in Delft.
October 19th, 2017
Our Parque Onda design was awarded second prize in the design competition for the Playa Honda urban park in Lanzarote.
June 2017
The June issue of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, which looked at architecture in Spain, featured an article on the Faculty of Fine Arts entitled MADE IN TENERIFE.
June 6th, 2017
On 6 June 2017, Constanze Sixt spoke at the SHARE International Architecture and Engineering Forum 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
February 6th, 2017
On February 10th, GPY Arquitectos will receive the German Design Award for their Faculty of Fine Arts building. The project will also be featured by an exhibition accompanying the event at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt.
February 3rd, 2017
GPY Arquitectos have been invited to participate as guest speakers at the SHARE International Architecture and Engineering Forum, which will take place in Sofia on May 22nd-23rd of this year.
January 27th, 2017
‘Corazón verde’, our proposal for the rehabilitation of a sports complex in Valverde on the island of El Hierro, has won second prize in a public design competition.
October 14th, 2016
LEAF Awards Winner
Faculty of Fine Arts: Public Building of the Year 2016.
October 10th, 2016
Juan Antonio González and Constanze Sixt will speak on November 3rd at the Club La Provincia in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
[Link](http://club.la-provincia.com/acto.jsp?pIdActo=2002” target=”_blank”>Link
September 30th, 2016
Exhibition ‘Desde la Incertidumbre. Un homenaje a Clara Muñoz’
GPY Arquitectos are participating in a group show, curated by architect Magüi González, remembering the art and architecture curator Clara Muñoz. Galería de Arte, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, September 30th - November 18th.
August 19th, 2016
Exhibition ‘The City and the World’
Our prizewinning project for the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards 2015, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna, will be shown in an exhibition entitled ‘The City and the World’ at the Contemporary Space Athens from September 11th to October 30th.
July 5th, 2016
GPY’s Art School on Spiegel-Online
June 27th, 2016
Best Architects 17
GPY Arquitectos have received the distinction ‘Best Architects 17 – gold’ for their new Faculty of Fine Arts.
May 26th, 2016
S.Arch Conceptual Design Award
GPY Arquitectos have been distinguished with the Conceptual Design Award at the S.Arch Congress in Montenegro, May 25th-27th, 2016.
May 17th, 2016
New web articles
- Baunetz: Fließende Kurven, feste Form. Kunstfakultät auf den Kanaren
- Dezeen: Bands of corduroy-textured concrete wrap GPY Arquitectos’ undulating art school in Tenerife
- Divisare: Faculty of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna - Link
March 15th, 2016
GPY’s proposal for the Fuente Santa Hot Spring Baths is a Prizewinner (Retail and Leisure category).
