Cuban architect-engineer credited, alongside the competition winners Esteban Rodríguez Castells and Rafael Fernández Ruenes, as a co-author of the Bacardí Building in Havana — the one building for which he is documented. Rodríguez Castells and Fernández Ruenes won Bacardí S.A.'s design competition for the headquarters and shared its prize; Menéndez is named in the sources as the project's architect-engineer, the role credited with carrying the winning scheme through construction. The finished tower, completed in 1930, steps back through twelve storeys of riveted steel frame and reinforced-concrete slabs to a belvedere holding the company's bronze bat, faced throughout in imported Bavarian granite, glazed terracotta and polychrome tile — Cuba's fullest built statement of Art Deco. Wikidata carries no entity for him; the attribution here follows the Spanish and English Wikipedia articles on the Edificio Bacardí, and his dates are not established in the sources consulted.
