page_title: Martín Domínguez Esteban
section_title: Collaboration
hierarchical_section_title: Martín Domínguez Esteban / Collaboration
caption_attribution_description: English: Radiocentro CMQ Building. Havana, Cuba.
context_page_description: Martín Domínguez Esteban was a Spanish architect.
context_section_description: He began to work in works in the Cuban territory, from 1938 until his second exile in 1960. He collaborated with the Diario de la Marina, which facilitated his participation in numerous social housing projects, although in collaboration with other architects since he did not have his Cuban architect's registration.
  In Havana he collaborated with three Cuban architecture teams. He worked with Honorato Colete between 1938 and 1943. Later he worked with Miguel Gastón and Emilio del Junco between 1943 and 1948, although since that year he will collaborate only with Gastón until 1952. And finally, with Ernesto Gómez Sampera and Mercedes Díaz between 1952 and 1960, year that must have a second exile, towards the United States.
  With Colete he designed the Gil Plá house, the La Sortija apartments and the Teatro Favorito in Havana (1938), and three houses for the Gómez Mena family in Varadero (1940).
  With del Junco and Gastón, he designed build four houses on the Bocanegra beach, the Enríquez, Roca and Prío houses in Marbella, the Prat and Grau houses in Havana, two apartment buildings in Miramar and Miramar Heights (1946), the Radiocentro CMQ Building (1947), which was a milestone in Havana architecture because it was the first modernist building sporting a curtain wall facade and to seen by all in one of the most important corners in the city. He also designed the Prado and Record Theaters, the Miralda building, the Air Express Office, and in addition the Jibacoa Beach Plan as well as the home of President Grau San Martín in Varadero (1948).
  With Gastón he designed the Miramar Theater and Shopping Center (1949), the Marianao Regulatory Plan (1950), the Santa María del Mar Beach Plan, the Miramar and Atlantic Theaters, a Municipal Building and the open-air Auditorium in Marianao. They also designed the San Diego Spa and the home for President Carlos Prío Socarrás (1950) near Havana.
  The collaboration with Ernesto Gómez-Sampera and his wife, Mercedes Díaz, was a fifty percent partnership that would remain active until 1960, in which the engineer Bartolomé Bestard would be part of the group and, ultimately, the engineer Ysrael Seynuk.  They designed the Ministry of Communications (1951-1954), the Workshops Ambar Motor, in Vía Blanca and the building for the Studios of Channel 4 television station. It was this facility that opened the doors for them to other facilities of radio and television on the island. Their great work was the FOCSA Building (1952–1956), which would become the tallest building in Havana with 39 floors and perhaps launching a new typology in modernist single loaded residential design. They also did a series of collective housing projects and inexpensive houses for union pension funds. They also designed the National Institute of Savings and Housing (INAV) after the triumph of the 1959 revolution.
caption: Radiocentro CMQ Building
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