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Navarcles Town Hall
A rectangular, two-storey building with a broad façade and shallow depth. Symmetry and horizontality dominate the composition, only broken by the crowning element of the structure. It features a large number of openings: three entrance doors with interspersed windows on the ground floor, and on the first floor, seven additional openings, five of which share the main balcony. Notable elements include two medallions with floral motifs, the wrought-iron balustrade of the main balcony, and the sgraffito decorations bearing the inscription: “Casa Consistorial 1912”, with the coat of arms of Navarcles at the centre. In 1910, after receiving 7,500 pesetas from the redemption of a ground rent paid by the Solervicens family for the Navarcles mill, the Town Council approved the development of the present Plaça de la Vila and the construction of a new municipal building to replace the old town hall in the Plaça Vella. The project was commissioned to the Manresa-born architect Ignasi Oms i Ponsa and was completed in 1912.1910 - 1912
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Sant Valentí Public Library in Navarcles
Santamaria Arquitectes, Pere Santamaria i Garcia
The extension to the Cultural Centre is concentrated in a single three-storey volume and has a public library on the ground and first floors, a hotel on the first and second floors, and an extension to the existing Theatre-Auditorium on the second floor. The plot of land is trapezoidal in shape and is sunken with respect to the surrounding streets. The remaining part of the block is occupied by the Theatre-Auditorium building and the Municipal School of Music, housed in a two-storey building constructed in 2003. The new volume is placed attached to the Theatre-Auditorium, leaving a courtyard between them that acquires the functions of light inlet and space of visual relationship between all. The remaining part of the site will be used for public space. The pronounced topography of the side streets means that the building is semi-underground, with the ground floor at the level of the public space at the front and the second floor at the level of the Theatre-Auditorium.2013


