After decades of degradation, the Arenales neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is undergoing a spurt of progressive transformation driven by the purchase of homes. One is House M, which builds upon a corner construction presenting in an advanc
With a total length of 283 meters, the footbridge designed by Onda Arquitectura and Checa Arquitectura presents three 63-meter stretches between supports, and the effect is an unexpected impression of lightness. The wavy form, initially a response t
The Canarian practice of Evelyn Alonso Rohner and José Antonio Sosa has turned a 1960s industrial warehouse on Gran Canaria island into a multipurpose facility. The original structure of relatively short spans, slender pillars, and beams is left expo
This project encompasses 5,484 square meters on the seafront of Las Palmas – capital of Gran Canaria island – in the area of the naval base and the Santa Catalina dock. Carried out by the local practice of Pedro Romera García and Ángela Ruiz Martínez
Stacking was one of the primitive activities of men, according to Semper’s classification. This project for 25 sustainable dwellings uses stacking as a means to build concrete tubes with an almost squared section (3,65 x 3,20 meters) that, as bases o
The peculiarities of the location, a sloping site where several roads converge in various directions, led to designing a proposal with the potential to create an urban landmark in the area. The building goes up as a bold and geometric concrete object
Located on the southern border of Las Palmas, the new Departmental Building of Health Sciences Research stands in the university campus as a gateway to the complex. Bearing a significant volumetric presence in a context of urban voids, the new piece
Designed as a business incubator, the Incube Building efficiently addresses the economic, social and climate demands of its environment. Located in the trade fair complex of the island, the new building had to wrap up the volume of the urban block an
Listed as Historic Artistic Monument in 1941, the castle is now a museum and houses the headquarters of the Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino, devoted to the legacy of the Gran Canaria-born sculptor. The Castillo de la Luz is for the ci
Located in the industrial area of San Cristóbal, next to the Vegueta, the historic quarter of Las Palmas, the new City of Justice is the result of a competition held in 2004. The brief described the intention of gathering all the different courts of
In the southern part of Las Palmas, the bold volume of this university building stands out in a context defined by urban voids. The program is organized in two parts: one for departments, teaching, and administration, and the other for research. The
Walking through the Vegueta quarter one can easily see the original urban structure of a city – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – which has undergone several transformations in its later expansions. Going through its narrow streets and passing by the trad
The first governor of the Canary Islands ordered the construction of a tower at the end of the 15th century, and when it was extended a few years later, the space located between the tower and the new perimeter walls was filled with earth to increase
Las ciudades crecen habitualmente redibujando sus periferias. El emplazamiento del proyecto es resultado de un plan de reconversión de antiguos terrenos industriales en una zona residencial de media densidad. Las primeras intervenciones se enfrentan
Como fruto de su política de ampliación de infraestructuras, la Fundación del pintor, escultor y arquitecto lanzaroteño César Manrique adquirió una finca colindante con su sede, en el término municipal de Teguise, a los pies del volcán de Tahiche, co
The isthmus of Santa Catalina, in the northeast end of the island of Gran Canaria, connects the built area of the city of Las Palmas in the south with the empty peninsula of La Isleta in the north. Extremely sensitive on account of its location betwe
The weight the tourist industry carries in the Canaries often works to the detriment of other, less profitable but equally necessary activities. To draw attention to an educational life on the rise, the University of Las Palmas has invited teams of a
Auditoriums as building typologies nowadays present serious problems which condition the very spatial and volumetric composition of their architecture. Inside, the study of reverberation time is fundamental to audition, and reverberation time varies
