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1928
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Ferrer i Salles Foundation Hospital
Ignasi Brugueras Llobet, Josep Ros i Ros
Isolated public building surrounded by a garden on the corner of Carrer Cesar Martinell and Carrer d’En Ferrer i Sallés. It has a T-shaped plan and it is accessed by a central front tower with a ground floor and two floors. The side wings have a ground floor, a floor and an attic. The gable roof is covered by Arabic tiles. The windows and doors show stepped lintels. Attic windows open on the roofs. It connects via an elevated walkway with the new floor building of the Casa dels Avis. What was supposed to be the old hospital located on Carrer Torres i Bages built from the donation of a piece of land by Josep Ferrer Sallés was never finished and finally in 1928 it was replaced by a new hospital. This hospital was commissioned in 1928 while the Manel Raventís square was being developed by the architect Ygnacio Brugueras. Three years later, Josep Ros i Ros collaborated there, designing the access, the stairs and the fence. Later, in 1956, the Hospital was expanded by annexing a new body, the project for which Moliner was responsible. The last intervention was in 2002 when Ramón Fuste Sitges designed an elevated walkway that connected to the Old People's Home after the conversion of the hospital into a residence for the elderly. In 1988 the Foundation was extinguished, and the City Council transferred management to the mutual insurance company La Aliança. -
Capellades Slaughterhouse
A building with a ground floor in the shape of a double-height T, with a gable roof with Arabic tiles. The facing is covered in stucco except for a stone plinth that runs around the building, and the corners are defined by pilasters of stone blocks. The construction has a symmetrically distributed structure. The main façade is crowned with a pediment with a broken profile that incorporates a coat of arms. Entrance doorway with a porch of square columns. Other decorations such as bull's heads can also be found at the top of the walls. There is a perimeter wall around it, which defines a courtyard. The interior has been preserved as it was and has the same gabled roof. Tiles are used as an ornamental element. It preserves the utensils (for hanging animals, etc.) from the same period in which it was built. The developer of this building was the Town Council of Capellades and the builder was Arturo Vidal Blanch. -
Formosa House
Magnificent country house between partitions with two floors. It has recently been completely remodeled by "La Caixa" and only the façade has been saved. It is embroidered with sgraffitos representing Sant Jordi, the balconies have terracotta railings and the entrance halls are of the same material. This façade gives a great category to the main street of Sant Sadurní. -
Grup Escolar Lola Anglada
Edifici de llenguatge eclèctic, amb elements renaixentistes i barrocs i certes ressonàncies encara modernistes. Consta de semisoterrani, planta baixa i pis. Façana principal amb quatre cossos avançats, i grans finestrals entre ells. Barbacana amb permòdols i coberta de teules àrabs vermelles i verds. Va ser erigida en temps del batlle Sabaté. Antigament es coneixia com a Escola Martínez Anido. -
Can Biel
Manuel Joaquim Raspall i Mayol
House between partition walls, with a ground floor and two landings. The building is divided into two bodies: an access one that protrudes from the plane of the façade and ends in a pediment with a geometric structure, and a lower one that is crowned by a large cornice supported by panels. It must be said that the windows are of different typology. The façade, especially regarding the entrance, has been renovated in recent years by the architect J. Valls. It belongs to the Noucentista and academic stage of M.J. Raspall. It is located in the old part of the city, in the urban centre of the Middle Ages. -
Puig i Gairalt House
Tower located in the neighbourhood of Sarrià, next to Plaça de Borràs, between Via Augusta and Ronda de Dalt. It has a quadrangular plan, with a ground floor, a floor, and an attic, with an attached rectangular tower that has one more floor. On the main façade, taking up the central space of the ground floor, there is a polygonal tribune that protrudes as if it were an added body; in this tribune large rectangular windows open and are framed by stepped mouldings, above which there are large sculptural reliefs, and the body is crowned by a large molding that imitates the shapes of a capital. The rest of the openings on this floor are similar, decorated with stepped moulding. On the first floor there is a balcony with a stone base and iron railing, a large window in the centre with three sculptural reliefs above, and another rectangular window on the other side. In the main body, this level is topped off by a moulding that imitates a classical capital supported by pilasters that follow the wall; this same decoration is found in the tower but one floor higher. The attic openings are two portholes and a quadrangular window, while in the tower there is a slightly larger window. The main body is topped by a large cornice in the shape of a capital. Two small square windows open on the top floor of the tower and the upper finish is similar to that of the main body. All openings, including portholes, are framed by a stepped moulding. The sculptural reliefs on the façade and a sculpture of a Venus in the Garden are the work of Rafael Solanic. On the ground floor, in the tribune, there is a music hall with a dome decorated with paintings by Francesc d’Assís Galí, with allegories of child musicians and goddesses. This house was built to be the residence of Ramon Puig i Gairalt and his brother Antoni, also an architect. The works, started in 1925, continued until the Civil War and the death of the architect in 1937, leaving the tower unfinished, which was completed later. -
1928 - 1929
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German Pavilion of the 1929 International Exhibition
The German pavilion represents a new way of conceiving space, and it is completely different from the traditional one and consistent with the possibilities offered by the new metal pillar structures. Mies takes this constructive innovation to the limit of its visual possibilities, allowing the enclosing walls to be freely distributed throughout the floor plan. Another remarkable aspect of the pavilion is the selection of high-quality materials and very intense colours, as well as the introduction of two sheets of water in the exterior spaces. Bruno Zevi carries out an investigation where he aesthetically places the architecture of the pavilion within neo-plasticism, an anti-classical movement which Mies belonged to. The dynamism of the horizontal and vertical planes of the pavilion clearly responds to the aesthetic principles of this avant-garde movement and is clearly opposed to the static conception of Greco-Roman art. The pavilion should be read as a manifesto that will determine all of Mies's latter architecture and will influence successive generations of modern architects. However, the Catalan architects of the Republic had already taken sides with Le Corbusier and the CIAM, and the influence of Mies would have to wait until the 1950s. Contrary to general opinion, this pavilion should also be read as a new housing prototype that Mies has successively presented at different international exhibitions: the Glasraum in Stuttgart, 1927; the German Pavilion in Barcelona, 1929; and the House for a Bachelor in Berlin, 1931. All of them are variations of a new typology of courtyard houses. In the 1950s, Oriol Bohigas contacted Mies van der Rohe to rebuild the Barcelona pavilion. Mies gave his consent and was willing to carry it out personally; however, he did not authorise the reconstruction of the monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg because he did not respect the original location. Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Fernando Ramos and Cristián Cirici completed the reconstruction in 1986, on the centenary of Mies' birth. -
Sales Municipals
Un passatge/vestíbul, del passeig al riu, articula les dues sales del programa de biblioteca municipal implantat en substitució de les casetes comercials de Fèlix de Azúa (1870). Una crugia en testa destinada a despatxos delimita el programa i la composició. La duplicitat entre un pòrtic principal ben inserit i l’accés monumentalitzat de testa resulta dubtosa. El vessant més classicitzant del noucentisme va esdevenir útil a la pulsió monumentalista de l’obra pública durant el règim autoritari del període 1923-29. Un cop descartat l’aixecament d’una planta lleugera per ampliar el programa (Fuses/Viader, 1985), el conjunt es va segmentar entre sales d’exposició i oficina de turisme. -
Masana House
Reventós echoes the hygienist and rationalist ideas regarding social housing that focused architectural debates in Central Europe in the 1920s. In the Masana house, he decided to place the stairs on the side of the façade so that they protrude from the plan and favour the entry of light and air in these areas. He also chooses to remove the closed inner courtyards and to make the same courtyard of the block of houses penetrate the building. The exterior shows a clear mastery of pure forms and their articulation, with a first order on the ground floor marked by a slight cornice, and the crowning of the façade with brickwork. Reventós built for the same owner the neighbouring building on Tamarit Street, where he establishes a U-shaped layout around a courtyard directly connected to the interior patio. The beveled and glazed volumes of the staircase contrast with the windows - of two types - in the houses, closed with shutters and without frames.
































