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Photo exterior
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Photo exterior
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Photo interior
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Photo interior
Rehabilitation of the Palacio de los Condes de Benavente
de Las Casas, Manuel. Valladolid, Spain
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Name of work in English
Rehabilitation of the Palacio de los Condes de Benavente
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Name of work in original language
Rehabilitación del Palacio de los Condes de Benavente
Prize year
EUmies Awards 1990
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Work Location
Valladolid, Spain
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Studio
de Las Casas, Manuel
EUmies Awards 1990 Nominees
Rehabilitation of the Palace of the Counts of Benavente for its adaptation to a public library.
Program
Education
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Labels
Library
Site area
7105 m²
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Client
Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno de España
Total gross floor
10341 m²
Completion
1989
The construction of the building began in 1515 and it became the seat of the General Courts and the royal councils. It suffered serious fires in 1667 and 1716 and in 1801 the Valladolid Provincial Council acquired it to use it as a Hospice until the 1970s. In 1982 the Provincial Council ceded the building to the Ministry of Culture, and it was then transformed into the public library, after a reconstruction and rehabilitation operated in the ruined building, in order to recover and enhance its original typology.
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