The Lanzarote architect Enrique Spínola González passed away in the early hours of this Friday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the city where he resided.
Spínola González was the architect of the original project of the Arrecife Gran Hotel and, together with Jesús Trapero Ballesteros, co-author of the Pancho Lasso Art School building, two of the most representative works of Lanzarote architecture of the second half of the 20th century.
With the death of the architect Enrique Spínola, the most notable architect of the 20th century in Lanzarote disappears. Co-author of the Pancho Lasso Art School, together with the architect Jesús Trapero, the building is one of the most outstanding examples of public buildings in the Canary Islands, from the period covering the second half of the 20th century, and is a reference for later generations of architecture students, as well as a magnificent educational continent designed for a use that has not been mortgaged despite the passage of time.
Author of the original building for the Arrecife Gran Hotel, in this case we must lament the loss of a valuable property, which, in the opinion of authorized voices, was unique in design and the only exponent in its height on the island, to which a later intervention annulled the values contributed by Spínola.
Enrique Spínola was a municipal architect of the Arrecife City Council and, later, of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council, until his retirement. He was recognized as a great pen and ink draftsman, generating a great production of elements of the traditional architecture of Lanzarote.
Enrique Spínola González is the brother of Francisco Spínola, founder of the Spínola Group.
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