Palerm & Tabares de Nava Arquitectos - one of the argest architectural firman the Canary lslands - was started in 1986 by Leopoldo Tabares de Nava (1958) and Juan Manuel Palerm (1957) with itS headquarters at Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife. The studio works in the field of architecture, town-planning and landscaping, through professional responsibilities, competitions, exhibitions and publications. Over the years, its work has focused Qn the role of architecture as a crucial factor in projects involving different territorial and urban scales - and different environments - tite landscape and tite town Significant works in this context indude tite National Library at Las Palmas on Gran Canaria (1999 and later), the painters' studio at the Fondazione Manrique on Lanzarote and. in particular. the plan to redevelop the Barranco de Santos in Santa Cruz