The rehabilitation of the Posada de la Sillería hotel in Toledo, carried out by the architects Jesús Gómez-Escalonilla and Benjamín Juan Santágueda, has been awarded at the 1st Castilla-La Mancha Architecture and Urbanism Awards organized by the Official College of Architects of the region (Coacm), in which the prestigious Navarrese architect Rafael Moneo will also be honored for his professional career. The jury has valued "the good restoration work that revitalizes the innate cultural values of the building". The hotel, owned by Alejandro Hernández and Mónica Ángulo, was inaugurated just a year ago, in the historic center of Toledo, a few meters from Plaza de Zocodover. It also has the restaurant 'Manjares'.
In the extraordinary award category Coacm
The rehabilitation and expansion of a house in the Poblao Obrero, also in Toledo, has also been recognized by the AMA studio made up of Francisco Javier Alguacil San Félix and Luis Moreno Domínguez for «achieving an intervention in an environmentally protected working-class neighborhood that strikes a balance between a current language and the pre-existing one, maintaining the essence of the area». Another Toledo project has also been awarded, in the category of Urbanism, for the rehabilitation and environmental recovery of the San Pedro alley, carried out by the architect Jesús Corroto Briceño, with the Corroto Arquitectura team for the "effective intervention carried out through citizen participation with great sensitivity, stripping public space with the help of private spaces.
The award ceremony gala will take place in the Auditorium of Ciudad Real, on June 9 next. This new award is biennial, and will be delivered successively in each edition, in a different Castilian-La Mancha capital.
The jury was made up of the dean of the Official College of Architects of Castilla-La Mancha, as its president: Elena Guijarro; by two architects chosen by the Coacm Governing Board: Esteban Belmonte and Gema González-Badillo; an architect professor at the UCLM School of Architecture: Juan Ignacio Mera, director of the UCLM School of Architecture; by an architect professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá de Henares: Enrique Castaño, director of the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá de Henares; by an architect professor at a School of Architecture from outside the region: Manuel Blanco, director of the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid; by a representative architect appointed by the Board's General Directorate of Housing: Marta Iniesto; by a representative architect appointed by the General Directorate of Territorial Planning and Urbanism of the Board: Verónica López; by a representative architect appointed by the Vice-Ministry of Culture of the Board: Victoria Viedma; and by a representative architect appointed by the Ministry of Social Welfare: José Carlos Valero, deputy secretary of Coacm. Secretary of the jury, acting with voice, but without vote, Álvaro Gómez-Tavira acted.
