Article source: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

The first governor of the Canary Islands ordered the construction of a tower at the end of the fifteenth century, and when it was extended a few years later, the space located between the tower and the new perimeter walls was filled with earth to increase the building’s strength and resistance. That purely defensive need would become the structuring argument of our architectural proposal for the Castillo de La Luz. Located in La Isleta, the isthmus at which the Castilian ships protecting the city arrived, it concealed those primitive walls originally beaten by the sea.

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• Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
• Project: CASTILLO DE LA LUZ MUSEUM
• Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Photography: Roland Halbe
• Client: Ministry of Public Works of Spain
• Property: Municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Project Architect: Pedro Quero, Alexandra Sobral
• Collaborators: Carlos Ballesteros, lago Blanco, Mauro Herrero, Juan Carlos Redondo
• Site Supervision: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P., Fuensanta Nieto – Enrique Sobejano, Miguel Mesas Izquierdo, José Mena, Edward Lynch, Technical Architects.
• Structures: N.B.35, S.L.
• Mechanical Engineer: Aguilera Ingenieros, S.A.
• Models: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P.
• Project Date: 2000 (1st Phase) , 2006 (2nd Phase)
• Construction: 2003-2004 (1st Phase), 2006-2013 (2nd Phase)
• Construction Company: Dragados, S.A. (1st Phase), Trycsa_Técnicas de la Restauración y Construcciones, S.A. (2nd Phase)