Marine Headquarters

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Military architecture · Year: 1898 · Authors: Laureano Arroyo

The first work carried out on the current General Marine Headquarters had a budget of 131,000 pesetas, in January 1898 by master stonemason Agustín Sánchez Rivero, according to designs by municipal architect Laureano Arroyo Velasco. This Catalonian architect designed an early 1900s building to which two others were added on either side during the 1940s. Arroyo Velasco put together the project for a two storey building with two inner courtyards and two wings in the form of a trapezium set aside for gardens that bordered on the north and south facing façade of the building. These gardens were disposed of in the 1940s as a larger building area was needed. 

The building is divided up into three centre lines parallel to calle León y Castillo. On the lower floor at the entrance, there are some access stairs with a columned arcade that holds up the ballustrade and balcony on the floor above. The Neoclassical style façade is crowned with a frontis, and has three doors providing access to the lobby. From the main stairway leads off to the second and third floors. 

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