Competition for the Transformation of Palma’s Waterfront

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A proposal to reconnect Palma with the sea

by | 26/06/26

MARGE 434 proposal, developed by LANDLAB in collaboration with L35 Arquitectos, Antoni Vilanova, Aiguasol, JG Ingenieros, Doymo and Doymo y Xavier Dolz, has been awarded third prize in the international competition for the transformation of Palma's Waterfront.

This recognition highlights the value of an interdisciplinary proposal in which landscape, architecture, heritage, sustainability, and engineering come together as a single strategy to redefine the relationship between the city and the sea.

MARGE 434 reimagines Palma's waterfront not as a physical boundary, but as a new urban threshold capable of reconnecting the city's key public spaces. The proposal creates a continuous civic infrastructure that integrates public space, landscape, and architecture into a permeable, accessible, and vibrant urban park, linking the Waterfront with the Historic Centre, Parc de la Mar, and the Levante District.

One of the project's key components is the rehabilitation of the iconic GESA Building. The proposal carefully preserves its architectural and heritage values while introducing new cultural, public, administrative, and innovation-related uses, transforming the building into a new civic landmark for Palma.

The project also incorporates a network of pedestrian and cycling routes, new green public spaces, climate adaptation strategies, and an energy model based on efficiency, circularity, and renewable energy generation. Together, these interventions enhance environmental resilience while improving urban quality of life.

For LANDLAB, this recognition reinforces a way of understanding urban design in which landscape functions as infrastructure, nature becomes the foundation for climate adaptation, and public space acts as the backbone of collective urban life.

We would like to thank the entire team for their talent, commitment, and dedication throughout the development of this proposal. MARGE 434 is the result of an outstanding collaboration between multiple disciplines united by a shared ambition: to imagine a Palma that is more connected, sustainable, inclusive, and open to the sea.