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Lapena y Torres Arquitectura

Contemporary Spanish Architects Practice – Arquitectos España: Barcelona Architect Studio

post updated 2 September 2025

Torres & Lapena – Key Projects

Lapeña y Torres Arquitectos, Barcelona

Featured Buildings by this Catalan architectural studio, alphabetical:

Corte Inglese Department Store / Almacén El Corte Inglese, Plaza Catalunya, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
Date built: 1994

photograph © Adrian Welch
Featured Corte Inglese Department Store Building

Forum Esplanade with Solar Panels / Esplanada Forum i Pergola Fotovoltaica, Diagonal Mar – Barcelona Forum, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
Date built: 2004

photo © Adrian Welch
Featured Forum Esplanade with Solar Panels Building
Sculptural concrete with simple plane of photovoltaics floating off four fair-faced concrete supports. The Pérgola fotovoltaica na esplanada Fórum also contains at the lower level a series of timber stuctures that were closed when I visited.

School of engineers, Campus UPC Besòs, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
2016
UPC + Infraestructures.cat

Cultural Center “El Carme”, Badalona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
2012
Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona

Centre Cultura Contemporània Barcelona – Renovation, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
2011
Diputació de Barcelona

Cultural and Artisan Center Antoni Tur “Gabrielet”, Sant Francesc, Formentera, Spain
2010
Consell Insular de Formentera

Cultural University Center “La Farinera”, Terrassa, Barcelona
2004
Ajuntament de Terrassa

Rovira i Virgili University Library, Tarragona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain
2003
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Sant Sebastià Swimming Pools, Barcelona
2002
Ajuntament de Barcelona

Baldiri Reixach School – Renovation, Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Ajuntament de Barcelona

Culture Council. Can D’Oms, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
1993
Ajuntament de Palma

Mora d’Ebre Hospital, Mora d´Ebre
1988
Generalitat de Catalunya

Primary Assistance Hospital, Gandesa
1986
Generalitat de Catalunya

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Location: Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain, southwestern Europe

Architects Practice Information

Lapeña & Torres Arquitectura studio based in Barcelona, Spain

Office led by Juan Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres, established in 1968.

Barcelona Architects

Juan Antonio Martínez Lapeña
Architect, born in Tarragona in 1941.

He obtained a technical title in architecture in 1962, and graduated in architecture from the ETSAB (Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona) in 1968.

Elías Torres

Balearic architect and designer, born in Ibiza in 1944.

He graduated in architecture at the University of Barcelona in 1968.