The Casa del Niño (Children's Home) is much more than an abandoned building: it is a key piece of our history and of architectural rationalism in the Canary Islands.
Designed by the prestigious Gran Canarian architect Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre between 1938 and 1939, this building stands out for its rationalist style, with clean lines, terraces, and a distinctive tower that broke with the conventions of the time. It was, and continues to be, a benchmark of the architectural avant-garde of the 1930s. Inaugurated in 1944 after the Spanish Civil War, it began as an orphanage and care center run by the Social Aid organization. For almost 50 years, its halls housed hundreds of children, becoming a place of contrasts: a project funded by public subscription and, at the same time, a space marked by the strict ideological and pedagogical discipline of the post-war era.
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