A first work that would serve as a laboratory for his later projects, the first housing building that included novelties such as air conditioning, suspended façades, mobile partitions, individualized garbage dumps ... this project was followed by other residential complexes, large hotels, residential tourism on the Costa del Sol and Mallorca and planning public housing, such as the one of San Ignacio de Loyola (1964-70). His office would be crucial protagonist of the years of tourist boom.
His most important works would be developed in Madrid, where he would experiment with technological innovations, introducing in Spain systems of "suspended architecture" that would be applied in projects such as the construction of the Colón Towers (1967). In this line of innovation, he founded the first company of Integrated Management of Projects, Management and Control in 1973, with which he tried to respond to an idea he explored from the beginning of his professional activity: to propose a practice in which the architect controlled all phases of the project.
In Madrid it would be where he would carry out his most important works, in scale and urban visibility contributing to shape the urban image in the main vias of the city, such as the Hotel Melia in Princesa Street (1963), the Galaxia complex building in Moncloa or Torres de Colón, the iconic Pyramid building, the remodeling and enlargement of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium or the impressive Terminal 4 of Barajas airport, in association with the British Richard Rogers.
He was National Prize of Architecture 1998, was member of the Real Academy of Doctors of Spain of Architecture and Fine Arts. Antonio Lamela received in 2005 the Gold Medal for Merit in the Work and in 2006 the "Jaime I of Sustainability" Prize.
This long trajectory reaches the Lamela Study, which directs his son Carlos Lamela, and has become a choral company with significant external projection.
His most important works would be developed in Madrid, where he would experiment with technological innovations, introducing in Spain systems of "suspended architecture" that would be applied in projects such as the construction of the Colón Towers (1967). In this line of innovation, he founded the first company of Integrated Management of Projects, Management and Control in 1973, with which he tried to respond to an idea he explored from the beginning of his professional activity: to propose a practice in which the architect controlled all phases of the project.
In Madrid it would be where he would carry out his most important works, in scale and urban visibility contributing to shape the urban image in the main vias of the city, such as the Hotel Melia in Princesa Street (1963), the Galaxia complex building in Moncloa or Torres de Colón, the iconic Pyramid building, the remodeling and enlargement of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium or the impressive Terminal 4 of Barajas airport, in association with the British Richard Rogers.
He was National Prize of Architecture 1998, was member of the Real Academy of Doctors of Spain of Architecture and Fine Arts. Antonio Lamela received in 2005 the Gold Medal for Merit in the Work and in 2006 the "Jaime I of Sustainability" Prize.
This long trajectory reaches the Lamela Study, which directs his son Carlos Lamela, and has become a choral company with significant external projection.
