La Lanera-Westin Hotel

Occupying the land recently urbanized on the occasion of the Regional Exhibition of 1909 and National of 1910, the wool factory was made in 1917, occupying almost the entire block with a central courtyard. The architect who designed the project was Alfonso Garín and the reinforced concrete structure was entrusted to the company of Demetrio Ribes and Joaquín Coloma. It is therefore one of the first buildings made with this material in Valencia.

Its façade reflects the power of the company giving a monumental and urban image. It has a continuous, modular and repetitive composition with a great sense of horizontality (it is of two heights) that is contrasted vertically by means of sashed pilasters that protrude from the sill of the building.

It has a certainly proto-rationalist character, conceived as a diaphanous plan, with wide gaps between pilaster and pilaster; Those on the ground floor have low arches and on the upper floor this same module becomes twin windows on small pilasters. In general, it has a classicist approach with modernist Secessionist ornamentation, especially that which occupies the spandrels of the arches, the cornices and the crown or parapet of the façade. At rounded corners small frontispieces with modernist court heads. Above the main door large curved pediment. Under this ornamentation and composition are hidden the characteristics of the open-plan factories of reinforced concrete.

At the moment its use is hotel, the Westin Hotel, although years ago it was occupied as a Central Building of the Local Police and Fire Station.

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