Plaza de España
The entire area of the remodeled Plaza de España and the new Plaza de las Islas Canarias is conceived as a single connected public space that functions on two superposed levels: a lower level for heavy traffic which includes the projected railroad and car parks; and an upper level that links the pedestrian zone of the city with the new marina and the sea. There is nothing very radical about this, it is a pattern that has already been applied in many other places, with more or less success, while here it has been promoted especially in the political arena as a means of alleviating congestion. Then what is new and unique about the Santa Cruz de Tenerife project? Much of today’s Plaza de España and the cargo docks of the Muelle de Enlace is reclaimed land anchored in the steep drop of the Atlantic Coast at great expense and requiring immense quantities of material. Anything that is now constructed there will essentially be an additional crust, a new layer superimposed on what is for the most part landfill.
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