Valencia_Modernism

Buildings 7 and 8



Building 7 What makes this building a modernist one? I t 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. 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.

Building 8 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.

Both of these buildings present a medievalist character.  