The ICO Museum displays Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos' national and international projects including works such as The Peineta Stadium or the new Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

The last exhibition of 2016 at the ICO ICO Museum in Madrid will show a retrospective of the career of the studio led by Antonio Cruz y Antonio Ortiz.Since October 5th, f 2016 until January 22nd, of 2017, the ICO Museum will display the most representative works of the studio Cruz and Ortiz since its inception in 1974, for example, the new stadium of Club Atletico de Madrid " La Peineta ", with a capacity for 70,000 spectators and more than 140,000 sqm built.
 
Together with this last one, the exhibition will present other projects like:
 
- The railway station of Santa Justa in Seville. Built between 1988 and 1991, it is a building that arises in a knot of railway lines. It has six distinct buildings in a single space of 12,000 sqm.
- The stadium of La Cartuja in Seville. This athletic stadium has a capacity for 60,000 spectators and a floor area of ​​over 100,000 m². It was used for the World Championships 1999.
- Central Station Basel in Switzerland. The proposed restoration and expansion was focused on making it the gateway to the city for travelers. The most complex part of the project was to replace the underpasses by a walkway that runs 200 meters across the train tracks, and that has become a hallmark of the city. This project was awarded the Heimatschutz in 2001, the Andalusia Architecture 2008 award  and a special mention at the Daylight Award 2006.
- The Pavilion of Spain for Expo2000 in Hanover. The first impression of this pavilion is a large block of cork, whose facades are disrupted by a deep cleft. The ultimate goal of this construction is to make a lasting impression on the memory of the visitor.
- The proposed new Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The intervention consisted in opening  a new and unique entrance to the museum in the central passage room, and recover the courtyards and exhibition spaces, to return the building in some way to its original state.
 
Among the materials to be exhibited at the Museum ICO, a selection of photographs by José Manuel Ballester, National Photography Prize 2010, will also be featured.
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From October the 5th of 2016 until january the 22nd of 2017
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ICO Museum (Zorrilla Street 3, Madrid)
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From tuesday to saturday, from 11 to 20 h. Sunday and holidays, from 10 to 14 h. Monday is closed.
Free admission.
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Architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz started their professional careers in 1971, after graduating from Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. 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).

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).

Antonio 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. 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. 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. On two occasions, they have been runners-up for the Mies van der Rohe Award. In 1997 they were awarded the Gold Medal of Andalusia for their work in the field of architecture, and in 2008 they obtained the Premio Andalucia de Arquitectura for the Basel Railway Station extension.

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Published on: September 5, 2016
Cite: "Retrospective to Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/retrospective-cruz-y-ortiz-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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