Pino de Oro Building

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture · Year: 1974 · Authors: Javier Díaz-Llanos, Vicente Saavedra

On the same site where the old Hotel Pino de Oro once stood, today stands this building designed in 1968 by architects Javier Díaz-Llanos and Vicente Saavedra, with the collaboration of Ángel Lobo.

The old hotel had an extraordinary garden where a spectacular dragon tree and several palm trees stood out in a special way. The architects responsible for the new building, to preserve these interesting specimens, proposed placing the construction in the clearest area of vegetation on the entire large plot.

The building we see today has ten floors of housing and one free floor on pillars that continues the garden areas. The façade is made with prefabricated concrete panels with a washed surface, coloured cement and red marble aggregate, which combines impeccably with the terraces; some main ones located on the sea-facing façade; and others, at the rear sector, enclosed by latticework formed by vertical wooden slats.

To condition the garden, where some of the century-old plant specimens are found (unfortunately the magnificent dragon tree that was preserved was later felled by the Delta storm), exposed concrete enclosure walls were built that configure an interior plaza.

The building, completed in 1974, composes a peculiar image of the urban landscape of this area, with the foothills of the Anaga mountains as a backdrop.

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