Modernism_Valencia

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=**Plaza Ayuntamiento 24, Valencia, Spain. ** = = = ||< =**Miguel Angel Navarre ** = = = ||< =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Its construction was carried out between 1915 and 1922. 2) This building responds the dominant eclecticism, baroque and the modernism, a universal style or a modernized renaissance. 3) It occupies two thirds of a compact block, with two curved bevels finished off by domes that conform the image of a public building 4) The access to the building is emphasized by a salient body, with double Ionic columns, and a semicircular arch with allegorical figures. 5) In the superior part, it connects with the double-height hall and covered with a dome of elliptic glazing base. 6) We can fine materials like massive bricks, scaffoldings of wood, iron and glass. 7) Also there is a telecommunications tower that crowns the building, a metallic tower of 30 meters high made of stone and steel which in the inside has stairs that communicates with the Viewing-point. 8) There is a dome of zinc, re-dressed in gold in bows and garlands. 9) In the inside of the building, the whole activity of the building develops in the Principal Lounge, an elliptical space covered by a great window composed by 370 panels and approximately 3.500 pieces of led 1 glass. ** = = = ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Symmetric and horizontal facades <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mix of different styles like baroque, classic, and gothic <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ornamentation || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1) It occupies a trapezoidal block of about 4.500 m2, and It is constituted by two unified bodies: The old Escuelas del Arzobispo Mayoral, “Casa de la Enseñanza",
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">City Hall ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plaza Ayuntamiento between la sangre st, Arzobispo Mayoral and Periodista Azzati Streets. Valencia, Spain. ||< =<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Francisco Mora and Carlos Carbonell ** = ||< = =

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and one construction already lifted in the 20th. Century. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2)This building has an Academicist style, in general, with Neo-Baroque elements on the main doors, and the one built in the 20th. Century, combines Purist and Mannerist elements,

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">being its façade the focal point of the whole square. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3)The façade is ordered around a central body that includes the main door; two protruding bodies with their respective doors to each side of the façade with wings of three windows

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on each side, with canopies in the noble plants; and the circular towers to the ends. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4)The bodies, are adorned with four big Corinthian columns with decorated shafts, in their inferior third, with posters and cupids sculpted. These columns, sustain, on both pedestals, other four big marble statues that symbolize the Cardinal Virtues. These two bodies rise by way of towers, crowning the respective terraces with balustrades with pinnacles where we can see the city coat of arms, formed by three bodies and crowned by a metallic shield, from 1930.  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5)The rest of the facade, limited by the slightly protruding bodies, mentioned before, and the towers at the ends, are inspired in the classic architecture of the Renaissance. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6)The interior works, articulates around the old patio. In the access lobby, there is a great Neo-classicist style staircase built with Italian marble. ||<  || =<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 1) The facade is solved with central symmetry. 2) As the Apartment Building 7, the style of this buildign is Modernist-historicist, presenting a medievalist character. 3) The basement is differentiated from the central body and the top, presenting a horizontal composition. 4) The central access is solved with a semicircular arch that includes the height of the mezzanine, emphasizing the main floor. ** = = = ||<  ||
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buildings 7 and 8 ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorni St., 23 (7) and Félix Pizcueta St., 3. Valencia, Spain. ||< =<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jose Manuel Cortina ** = ||< =<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 1) This building has a modernist-historicist style with a medievalist character. 2) The façade is symetrical with a vertical composition of holes, structured in three horizontal bands. 3) It has a cornice with pendants, that is enhanced in the corners with triangular pinnacles with a small central rosette. ** =
 * < <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Xapa House ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px initial initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Canovas Squar e, Valencia, Spain. ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antonio Martorel, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell ||< =<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) It is a residential building, formed by 8 individual buildings 2) It have interior iluminating patios 3) First Homogeneous block of housings 4) The balconies determines a horizontal composition 5) A serpentine element of floral decoration reinforces its unit and its horizontality 6) This horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms 7) Alternation of lining between ceramic and marble in the lobbies and the stairways 8) coalition of floral and geometric elements ** = ||<  ||