Having been used over the years for a variety of purposes this building is now once again the Ateneo (Athenaeum). The volume-space is shaped by the variously straight and curved lines of the bordering streets. The inflexion of the first floor effects a play of volume-spaces, whereby the corner of the building is retroussé. The straight-edged rhythm of the indentations of the south façade are offset by the plainer curved façade.
Place:
  Santander
Period/Style:
  Racionalism.
Date:
  1935.
Author:
  Deogracias Mariano Lastra