Artillery Command

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Military architecture · Year: 1893 · Authors: José de Lezcano Muxica

This building closes the north side of the imposing block built in classicist style dedicated to the military branch which, together with its extraordinary gardens, ennobles this entire final area of Triana. Of the three constructions that make up this homogeneous block, the one we now discuss, at the corner of Triana, Bravo Murillo and Eduardo streets, was intended to house the Artillery Command.  

Designed, like the neighbouring constructions, by the military engineer José de Lezcano Mujica Acosta, this building was completed at the beginning of the last decade of the 19th century.

Smaller than the Military Government, the Artillery Command is a two-storey building where its plinth and windows with pediments framed in striking basalt masonry stand out. The façade is topped by a balustrade intercepted in the central body by an apparent pediment. 

This building housed on its ground floor the offices of the Coastal Artillery Regiment; on the upper floor, the main one, it was intended as the residential pavilion of the Colonel Chief of the branch.

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