Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has been selected as a finalist in the international competition for the remodelling of the Montjuïc exhibition centre, organised by Fira de Barcelona. Only fifteen of the 121 candidates advanced to the final phase.
Cruz y Ortiz is participating in the second lot, which focuses on the design of the new Congress Centre in the Alfonso XIII Palace, integrating historical elements. The finalist studios will submit anonymous proposals in February 2025, and the winners will be announced in the first quarter of that year.
The remodelling, which seeks to modernise the facilities under criteria of sustainability and digitalisation, will be completed in 2029, coinciding with the Centenary of the 1929 International Exhibition. The jury is made up of five experts, with Josep Lluís Mateo acting as chairman.

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Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has been selected to carry out the extension and renovation of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. This project includes the integration of two adjacent buildings into a single venue, with a design that preserves the main entrance and optimizes the functionality of the spaces. 
Key interventions include a new atrium that unifies the architectural ensemble and provides an open and bright space, a central rehearsal hall with adaptable solar control, and a cafeteria designed to promote social interaction and the exchange of experiences between students and teachers.
The Reina Sofía School of Music, founded in Madrid by Paloma O’Shea in 1991 is named after its Honorary President, Queen Sofía. It’s an initiative of the Albéniz Foundation with the dual aim of helping young people and culture.
This extension and renovation project represents a significant step in the evolution of the institution, ensuring that it continues to be a leading reference in musical education of excellence.

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The College of Architects these days celebrates its week of cultural activities with an intense program of events in which it also seeks to open itself to Granada citizens.

Among the activities carried out for members but open to the general public, the Assembly Hall of the Official College of Architects will host this afternoon the conference of one of the reference names of the subject in this country: Antonio Cruz, awarded with García de Paredes New Construction Architecture Award for the Learning Center of the Campus of Health Sciences of the UGR university.

The architect explains that he will focus on his work at the Granada Health Campus. He will talk about the award-winning Learning Center building – which houses among others the paraninfo, the library, the study hall or the canteen – but he will also speak about his projects for the Faculty of Medicine and theMasterplan of the entire campus.

Although in Granada it has other reference buildings, such as the administrative building of the Junta de Andalucía in Almanjáyar, it will also add “some other work done by the study in relation to the university issue” outside this province.

In that sense, he advances that will show the Faculty of Sciences of Education in Seville. Also a contest won in Lugano, Switzerland, to make a university campus in the vicinity of the train station. And “although it does not directly have a university use but a cultural one, it will also talk about the Elena Infanta Library in Seville.”
The act, which will proceed to read the manifesto Architecture … housing for all, will also be attended by Luis Alberto Martínez Cañas, dean of the Official College of Architects of Granada; Noemí Sanchís Morales, president of the Andalusian Council of Official Associations of Architects; and Alicia Martínez Martín, Secretary General of Housing of the Junta de Andalucía.

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El Pais: More than 60,700 people turned out to see a soccer game between Atlético Madrid and Barcelona at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on Sunday – the largest turnout for a soccer match between female clubs the world has ever seen.

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Granada Hoy: The Faculty of Medicine of Granada will be the setting for the celebration of the First Semergen University and Family Medicine Conference, which will be held on March 14.

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ABC Seville: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel of Hungary welcomed a new member yesterday, the prestigious Sevillian architect Antonio Cruz Villalón, who assumes this appointment “as an honor and as a responsibility”.

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El Diario de Cadiz: “Under the slogan Architecture … for a better world, this Monday marks World Architecture Day. Taking advantage of this event, the Cadiz Architects Association will award the distinction of Honorary Members to architects Sevillians Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz. “

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From Volkskrant: They renovated the Dutch Rijksmuseum and gave the Atlético de Madrid football club a new stadium. Its roots are in the southern city of Spain, where they also live. The architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz guide us through Seville.

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Diario de Sevilla: After the inauguration of the brand new Wanda Metropolitano, the new home of the Club Atlético de Madrid, the architecture firm Cruz y Ortiz does not stop and is now marked with a new and dazzling design for the stadium that will have the honor of hosting the match inaugural and the grand finale of the Moroccan candidacy.

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El País: The College of Civil Engineers of Madrid has Awarded the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium as ‘Best Public Works’

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