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On two occasions, they have been runners-up for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have received, among others, the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Espanola, the Premio Ciudad de Sevilla, the Premio Ciudad de Madrid, the Brunei 92 International Award, the Premio Construmat and the Premio de la Fundacion C.E.O.E. They have held the Kenzo Tange Professorship at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and since 2004 have been honorary professors at the Universidad de Sevilla and occupied the Catedra Blanca at the Escuela de Arquitectura. In 2002 Cruz y Ortiz opened a studio in Amsterdam, and the firm's other Dutch projects include the Atelier Building (Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, 2007), residences Patio Sevilla (Ceramique - Maastricht, 2000) and Java-eiland (Amsterdam, 1994).Īntonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have been visiting professors at the Lausanne and Zurich polytechnics as well as at Cornell and Columbia universities and at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Pamplona. In addition to the transformation of the Rijksmuseum, their most well-known projects include the new Atletico de Madrid Stadium, which will also be the new Olympic Stadium if the Madrid 2020 Olympic bid is successful (due for completion in 2016) the Spanish Pavilion at the Hannover 2000 Expo the Cartuja Stadium in Seville (1999) the extension to the SBB Railway Station in Basel, Switzerland (2003) Seville Public Library (1999) the Stadium of the Community of Madrid(2012) the Huelva Bus Station (1994) Santa Justa Railway Station in Seville (1991) and a housing project on Dona Maria Coronel Street, Seville (1976). (more info below).Īrchitects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz started their professional careers in 1971, after graduating from Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. They have recently completed the remodeling and expansion of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a work for which they have been named Knights of the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion, and for which they have received the CSCAE International Spanish Architecture Award. They are the authors of the houses on María Coronel street, the Santa Justa railway station (both in Seville), the ‘La Peineta’ athletics stadium (Madrid) and the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover. After finishing their studies in the decade of 1979, they founded their studio together in the capital of Seville. The CSCAE, in response to its duty to contribute to the highest cultural and social level of Architecture, created the award to "publicly and notoriously recognize the efforts of people and institutions, which in their trajectory, extol and ennoble the architectural work." Among the award-winning architects are : Félix Candela Outeriño, Alejandro de la Sota, Josep Lluís Sert, Fancisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, Alvaro Siza, Miguel Fisac Serna, Oriol Bohigas Guardiola, among others.Īntonio Ortiz and Antonio Cruz 2014 CSCAE Gold Medal.Īntonio Ortiz (1947) and Antonio Cruz (1948) are from Seville and studied at the ETSA in Madrid.
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