USON GUARDIOLA, EZEQUIEL
With growing environmental awareness in European society, a new generation of architects has emerged in Spain. They plan and build using design strategies to reduce water consumption and waste production and to actively generate renewable energies. Selected projects include: Botanical Garden of Montjuïc in Barcelona and the Western Beach Promenade in Benidorm (Alicante) by Carlos Ferrater; the Spanish Pavilion at the Expo 2005 Aichi (Japan) by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera, the Spanish Pavilion at the Expo Zaragoza 2008 by Franciso J. Mangado and Florencio Manteca; the Hesperia Tower Hotel by Alonso Balaguer Asociados and Richard Roger Partnership, and the Habitat Hotel in Barcelona by Ruiz Geli, Vito Acconci and Ruy Ohtake; and the new head offices of Endesa and Telefónica in Madrid by Rafael de La-Hoz.
