Build Architecture Awards 2016

2016 Architecture Awards Build 101 Company: Romera Y Ruiz Architects SLP Name: Pedro N. Romera Garcia / Angela Ruiz Martinez (Romera y Ruiz architects) Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Web Address: www.romerayruiz.com Address: c/ Ángel Guerra nº 14, local bajo 35003 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria CANARY ISLANDS Telephone: 0034 928368804 edro Romera García, phD Architect, has been Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of Las Palmas since 1999. Member of the Research Heritage and Land- scape Project. Ángela Ruiz Martínez, Architect, is Professor of Landscape Architecture from 2004 to 2008, and Architectural Projects (academic years 2009/2010, 2011/2012) at the School of Architecture of Las Palmas. General coordinator of the Second Biennial of Art, Architecture and Landscape of the Canary Islands, and member of the Island Historical Heritage Commissions of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, from 2001 to 2005. Together they founded Romera Y Ruiz Architects in 1999 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after having worked separately in professional offices at both national and local level. They have developed different projects, planning documents, and participated in numerous cultural activities. One of the firm’s recent successful projects was Pasarela building, a mobile and adaptable like weathervane, obediently indicating the prevailing wind, it bows to each new order and forgets what it repeated, fully convinced, only a moment before. Prior to this there used to be an insurmountable architecture which rose up in reproach against the surrounding impover- ished landscape, which it confronted and halted: like a brief fragment with a greater specific density, it emerged above the arbitrary disorder of the flood that is drowning absolutely everything. It is beautiful, poetic projects which the firm aims to cultivate, creating spaces in which people feel safe and comforted, with an overall mission to make architecture live. Ultimately the firm’s aim is to create symbolic projects which are both func- tional and aesthetically interesting. ROMERA Y RUIZ ARQUITECTOS Best for Housing Restoration & Refurbishment - Spain Romera Y Ruiz Architects SLP is a Las Palmas based architectural practice offering a wide range of services. We profile the firm and explore its service offering. P AR160058