Salamanca Electric Station

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Industrial architecture · Year: 1918? · Authors: Antonio Pintor y Ocete

At the end of the second decade of the 20th century, electricity was an established reality in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. With the aim of bringing electrical supply to large expanding areas of the city, the municipal architect Antonio Pintor designed a series of transformer and supply stations in strategic locations within the urban fabric. These are simple prism-based constructions equipped with a tower from whose apex the wiring for supply departed. These are functional buildings not lacking a clear aesthetic sense framed within the eclectic style, so widely practiced at that time. 

One of these curious installations is found in the Salamanca neighbourhood. It consists of a complex configured by a prism base with a tiled roof serving as a warehouse and machinery installation. From here, resting on mouldings, rises the tower with four cast iron light points on each of its faces. The whole is topped by a small cupola with openings on all sides from which the distribution cables departed.

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