The Casa de Colón

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture

This building takes up a whole irregular shaped block between the Plaza del Pilar Nuevo and the streets of Herrería, Colón and the Pasaje Pedro de Algaba, and was the result of a fusion of several single buildings dating between the 16th and 18th centuries. The effect of this is a collage of original structures, remains brought in from elsewhere and more recent recreated traditional elements, between 1950 and 1960, by Néstor Álamo. The doorway of Casa Santa Gadea-Mansel (from the last third of the 16th century) possesses a sandstone wall that runs around the entrance and lintled window; in the first section are wide keystones, the molded alfiz and decorative strips; on the second, the window with a sill worked in Gothic shaping and under an alfiz supported by corbels. The corner facing the calle Herrería is a reflection of the attempt to unify in one fell swoop various different façades: wooden carpentry, open face balconies with interlinked parapets, windows with trellis leaves and covered balcony, also trellised, show a whole host of Neocanarian styles. In the rest of the façades there is the Teror stonework doorway and covered balcony recently added, as well as the historic Tirma green stone doorway looking out on the Plaza del Pilar Nuevo.

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