Modernism_Valencia

 Apartment Building 7 Sorni St., 23 This building belongs to the modernist historicist style with a medievalist character. It was projected by the architect José Manuel Cortina Pérez, in 1905. It presents a wide symmetrical façade with a vertical composition of holes, structured in three horizontal bands. The great cornice, with pendants (guttae), is enhanced in the corners with triangular pinnacles with a small central rosette. As in this architect's other works, the decoration is based on the pleasant contrast among the brick, the top border, the stone, and the wrought iron, where, most part of the characteristic fantastic elements of his works disappear, but he keeps the medievalist character.


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Apartment Building 8 This dwelling also belongs to the modernist histocist style, presenting a medievalist character. The architect was José Manuel Cortina Pérez (1901). The facade is solved with central symmetry, and the basement is clearly differentiated from the central body and the top, presenting a horizontal composition which is not broken by the towers and the lateral oriel windows. With outstanding stone baseboard, the central access is solved with a semicircular arch that includes the height of the mezzanine, emphasizing, in this way, the main floor. The building has cornices over Lombard arches and finished off with pinnacles. The vestibule (zaguan) communicates to the interior patio of the block, whose façade is treated with wooden oriel windows and galleries closed with crystals.


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The Post Office Building Plaza Ayuntamiento, 24 The Post Office and Telegraphs Palace of Valencia is one of the many that the Plan Maura built for the Spanish capitals. Although Leopoldo José Ulled's project won the contest, the work was carried out according to the project of the architect Miguel Angel Navarrese, from Zaragoza. Its construction was carried out between 1915 and 1922. This building responds, in its general features, to the dominant eclecticism of the official architecture. It occupies two thirds of a compact block, with two curved bevels finished off by domes that conform the image of a public building. The access to the building is emphasized by a salient body, framed, on its ground plant, with double Ionic columns, and a semicircular arch with allegorical figures. In the superior part, it connects with the double-height hall and covered with a dome of elliptic glazing base, which is the nucleus around which the rest of the building is developed. Its monumental effect is enhanced by the presence of different sculptural groups with symbols of the communications. On the right side of the main façade there is a commemorative plaque dedicated to Canalejas, with a Christ in relief work by Victor Hino. It is an eclectic French style building, which repeats the whole outline of the modern façade of the City Hall.


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= The XAPA House = Canovas Square It is an architectural group constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior illuminating patios. The group occupies a great island, almost half of a block that faces the Canovas del Castillo Square, Gran Marques del Turia Avenue, Conde Salvatierra and Gravador Esteve Streets. The project belongs to the architects Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella, 1906-1911. This is the first homogeneous block of housings of Valencia, it is, in spite of the different authorship, a design unit. The organization of the balconies determines a horizontal composition. The group is finished off by a serpentine element of floral decoration that reinforces its unit and its horizontality. This horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms because of the ends and the appearance of terraces and balconies of semicircular and triangular plant. The lobbies and the stairways have different interior treatments, alternating the lining between ceramic and marble. The homogeneous treatment of the ground plant and the mezzanine emphasizes, even more, the importance of the main floor. The coalition of floral and geometric elements seems to indicate a desire to synthesize formal aspects of the Art Nouveau and of the Austrian Secession, although the elements belonging to the first type are the ones which carry more importance in the group.




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Valencia City Hall Ayuntamiento Square

The City Hall building, or Ayuntamiento, is pleasing to look at, silhouetted against the blue sky. The 19th. Century building is imposing. It occupies a trapezoidal block of about 4.500 m2. It is constituted by two unified bodies: The old Escuelas del Arzobispo Mayoral, “Casa de la Enseñanza", with façades to the streets of “La Sangre”, “Arzobispo Mayoral” and “Periodista Azzati”; and the construction already lifted in the 20th. Century, built by the architects Francisco de Mora y Berenguer and Carlos Carbonell Pañella, and whose main façade faces the square of the City council. The primitive building, the House of the City was located to the side of the Generalitat, but its ramshackle state motivated its moving to the House of Teaching of the Archbishop’s Mayoral, in 1856. 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, being its façade the focal point of the whole square. The restoration and restructuring of the area, due to the landslide of San Francisco's convent, until then a chivalry shed, allowed the Government to request for a new Consistorial House. For that reason, in 1905, the architects Carbonell y Mora presented a project to amplify the City council, including a new façade. 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 on each side, with canopies in the noble plants; and the circular towers to the ends. On the main door, an arch opens up with allegorical marble figures in the spandrels, in low-relief, representing Administration and Justice, work of Mariano Benlliure, also the author of the bronze municipal coat of arms sustained by two feminine nudes in marble that symbolize the Arts and the Fine Arts. The bodies, a little protruding, that flank the space described, are adorned with four big Corinthian columns with decorated shafts, in their inferior third, with posters and cupids sculpted by Ricardo Tárrega. 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. 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. Each wing is structured on a baseboard of marble stone and padded walls to the rest of the ground floor, the other two plants are divided by three Corinthian style pilasters that frame the windows, those of the main floor are crowned with classic frontons. On the cornice, a balustrade with shafts serves as connection between the bodies and the two platforms on both sides of the central tower which harbors a clock. The angular towers, with circular plant, are covered by the characteristic very banked domes, in radiant copper color due to the metallic reflection of their glazed tiles. The interior works, articulates around the old patio. In the access lobby, there is a great Neo-classicist style staircase built with Italian marble. The ballroom, with magnificent Bohemian crystal lamps, consoles, gilded carvings and painted platforms in oils by Salvador Tuset, was inaugurated by XII Alfonso in 1929. The council chamber, set up in a semicircular plant, with platform for the presidency, bleacher for about 109 seats and tribunes for the public. It has columns of polished granite with bronze applications, marble doorways and headwall, and art-deco paintings by Salvador Tuset. Other rooms around the patio are: the mayor's office; the general secretary's office, the Pompeya hall; the chimney living room, etc. The decoration, in general, is abundant with Valencianist elements. In 1967, a balcony, that covers the central body of the main floor, was added. It was created for public events.


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wide symmetrical façade with a vertical composition of holes structured in three horizontal bands. || The great cornice, with pendants (guttae), is enhanced in the corners with triangular pinnacles with a small central rosette. || It is an eclectic French style building || The homogeneous treatment of the ground plant and the mezzanine emphasizes, even more, the importance of the main floor. || Square || Francisco de Mora y Berenguer and Carlos Carbonell Pañella || The façade is ordered around a central body The decoration, in general, is abundant with Valencianist elements. || The interior works, articulates around the old patio. In the access lobby, there is a great Neo-classicist style staircase built with Italian marble. ||
 * Name of building || Location: Valencia || Architect || Common Characteristics || Unique characteristics ||
 * Apartment Building 7 || Sorni St., 23 || Jose Manuel Cortina Perez || medievalist character
 * Apartment Building 8 || Sorni St., 23 || José Manuel Cortina Pérez || medievalist character || The building has cornices over Lombard arches and finished off with pinnacles ||
 * The Post Office Building || Ayuntamineto Square, 24 || Miguel Angel Navarrese || divided in horizontal bands || On the right side of the main façade there is a commemorative plaque dedicated to Canalejas, with a Christ in relief work by Victor Hino.
 * The Post Office Building || Ayuntamineto Square, 24 || Miguel Angel Navarrese || divided in horizontal bands || On the right side of the main façade there is a commemorative plaque dedicated to Canalejas, with a Christ in relief work by Victor Hino.
 * The Post Office Building || Ayuntamineto Square, 24 || Miguel Angel Navarrese || divided in horizontal bands || On the right side of the main façade there is a commemorative plaque dedicated to Canalejas, with a Christ in relief work by Victor Hino.
 * The Xapa House || Canovas Square || Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella || horizontal composition || The horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms because of the ends and the appearance of terraces and balconies of semicircular and triangular plant.
 * The Xapa House || Canovas Square || Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella || horizontal composition || The horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms because of the ends and the appearance of terraces and balconies of semicircular and triangular plant.
 * Valencia City Hall || Ayuntamineto
 * Valencia City Hall || Ayuntamineto