The Wind Tower

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

This is a modern day work and is to be found at La Laja beach. What was the author trying to achieve? It might be his artistic way of trying to rise up high, or due to social circumstances, he might have been attempting to materialize a way of his geneology entering nobility without realizing that geneology is a whim of the gods. The author of the Wind Tower perhaps had poetry in mind when the moment came to baptise his slim feminine refugee. What name could he give it? Perhaps by reading a few verses by Dámaso Alonso entitled The wind, it occurred to him to consider the prevailing wind there as something fundamental to his tower, hence the name the Wind Tower. 

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