The jury awarded second place to the Spanish architect José Ignacio Linazasoro for his conversion of a church in San Fernando into a library. The church, or rather the ruin, was located on the southern side of the Plaza Agustín in Lavapiés, one of Madrid's oldest quarters. José Ignacio Linazasoro converted the church into a library and added a new building for seminar and lecture rooms. The conversion side culminates in the brick facade on Plaza Agustín. The project is an excellent demonstration of how continuity and breaks in history, technology and aesthetic sensitivity can form a completely natural, new unit.
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