This building was built in the early 20th century, by the notable architect from Tenerife, Domingo Pisaca Burgada, and in its origins held the tobacco factory El Águila.
It follows the architectural fashions prevalent in Europe at the end of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century, displaying a clearly eclectic style. The building features two twin facades adjoining a cylindrical body whose only differentiating elements are the front of the rooftop and the balcony on the second floor.
The building displays aspects of the modernist movement: industrial functionality, big windows to take advantage of the natural light, curved lines, etc. It was designed to obtain the maximum productive functionality as the factory it was: deposit and offices on the lower level and manufacture on the upper levels. The concrete front is decorated with a balcony which displays a royal eagle, the symbol of the factory and its tobacco products. Its facade, interior staircase and the volume of the building have been granted official governmental protection.
For more than 25 years, this building was used for the manufacture of tobacco until, at the end of the 1950s and due to the decline of the tobacco sector, it changes its main purpose to the edition and printing of the no longer active Tenerife newspaper, La Tarde. With the goal of adjusting it to its new purposes, the interior was fully refurbished. From September 1970, the newspaper will be produced in the building, which will be known from then on as the La Tarde building.
From these two different uses there remain the royal eagle metallic sculpture, located on the balcony of the second floor, and, carved on the front of that very balcony, the name LA TARDE, alluding to the headline of that newspaper that was written and printed there.
Years later the building was acquired by the Canary Islands Parliament, and in 2000 became the office of the Canary Islands Court of Auditors
The Canary Islands Court of Auditors is an institution belonging to the Canary Islands Parliament whose mission is the external audit of the economic, financial and accounting management of the public sector in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, together with the promotion of good administrative, accounting and financial practices as a means of preventing of corruption.
