Modernism_Valencia


 * Apartment Building 7 and 8 **



Projected by the architect José Manuel Cortina Pérez, in 1905

Wide symmetrical façade with a vertical composition of holes, structured in three horizontal bands

Contrast among the brick, the top border, the stone, and the wrought iron

Medievalist character. .

Cornice enhanced in the corners with triangular pinnacles with a small central rosette




 * The Post Office Building **

The project of the architect Miguel Angel Navarrese, from Zaragoza. Its construction was carried out between 1915 and 1922.

Dominant eclecticism of the official architecture

Two thirds of a compact block, with two curved bevels finished off by domes

Access emphasized by a salient body, framed with double Ionic columns, and a semicircular arch

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


 * The XAPA house **

Constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior illuminating patios

The project belongs to the architects Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella, 1906-1911

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

The lobbies and the stairways have different interior treatments, alternating the lining between ceramic and marble 


 * Valencia City Hall **

Academicist style.with Neo-Baroque elements on the main doors

Constituted by two unified bodies: The old Escuelas del Arzobispo Mayoral, “Casa de la Enseñanza"

Architects Francisco de Mora y Berenguer and Carlos Carbonell Pañella

The bodies are adorned with four big Corinthian columns.

The angular towers are covered by the characteristic very banked domes

In the access lobby, there is a great Neo-classicist style staircase built with Italian marble.

