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Planell House
autoria desconeguda
Residential building with a ground floor and four upper storeys, featuring a cornice and a flat roof terrace. The main façade on Baixada de la Seu is symmetrically arranged along three vertical axes, corresponding to the three ground-floor entrances. It follows a classical typology with a mezzanine, main floor, and two additional upper floors, with social hierarchy reflected in the design of the balconies: the mezzanine has railings flush with the façade; the main floor features a continuous balcony; and the upper floors have individual balconies that decrease in height. Pilasters separating the balconies are nearly flat and topped with Ionic capitals. The cornice is decorated with modillions and overlapping tile motifs. The façade on Carrer del Bisbe is flat and sparsely fenestrated.1832
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1840
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1847
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1848
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Bernardí Martorell House
Located in the Ciutat Vella district, this terraced apartment building stands within the block bounded by Carrer de l’Hospital (from which the main entrance is accessed), Carrer d’en Robador, Carrer de Sant Rafael and Rambla del Raval. The building also contains the entrance to Passatge de Bernardí Martorell, which connects Carrer de l’Hospital with Carrer de Sant Rafael. The property, divided by the passageway, comprises a building made up of two sections joined by means of an arch over which construction has also taken place. Even so, the vertical structure of the principal façade presents a compact appearance and consists of a ground floor, three upper floors, an attic and a second attic resulting from a later 20th century addition. The ground floor, finished in Montjuïc stone, is arranged with four segmental arches giving access to shops and a central semicircular arch leading into the passage, where the building’s vestibule is located. This arch stands out for being framed by two fluted Doric semi-columns supporting an entablature composed of triglyphs and metopes. This Neoclassical work, which some authors have mistakenly dated to the sixteenth century, was formerly crowned by two seated sculptures of the gods Mars and Apollo, now lost. The openings, aligned along vertical axes, decrease in height on the upper floors and are framed by moulded stone jambs and lintels with flat bands. The balconies, which project progressively less on the higher levels and are supported by stone volute-shaped corbels with rounded corners, are enclosed by cast-iron railings featuring rich Neo-Gothic tracery ornament. The walls are rendered in stucco which, through varied polychromy, imitates ashlar blocks of white marble veined with grey. The most distinctive feature of this building, however, is its profuse ornamentation of terracotta relief appliqués inserted in vertical stucco panels between the balconies. This type of decoration, very characteristic of Barcelona architecture in the 1840s and 1850s, lends considerable plasticity to the city’s façades. The terracottas on this building take the form of intertwined vegetal candelabra in ascending compositions, incorporating putti, lion heads, faun-shaped pilasters, vases and acanthus leaves. The overdoors of the principal-floor balconies are also adorned with terracotta reliefs, in this case depicting allegories of the textile industry through factory scenes featuring children. The attic, separated from the floors below by a moulded cornice that serves as the base for the parapet balconies opening onto the street, is likewise decorated with terracotta reliefs in the form of floral garlands. The façade is crowned by a second attic added during the first half of the twentieth century, with its parapet balconies set upon the cornice that formerly marked the line of the roof slab.1849
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1850
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1851
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1852
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1853 - 1855
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1852 - 1856
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1857
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Bloc d'Habitatges Codina
autoria desconeguda
De nou en una realineació vuitcentista —que permet, però, albirar escassament la seva composició—, se’ns presenta aquí un immoble residencial de matriu semblant a la del bloc Domènech antecedent. Aquí, tanmateix, els frisos verticals i les composicions vegetals de terra cuita protagonitzen la textura. Resulten també de gran interès l’escala helicoïdal i espai comú així com la configuració dels habitatges.1858
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1859
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Bloc d'Habitatges Pol
El tòpic d’una Girona vella i perdurablement medieval no s’adiu amb la realitat de quasi cap indret urbà: higienitzacions i noves alineacions (s. xix i xx) canviaren i densificaren nombroses trames i fàbriques preexistents. El neoclàssic vuitcentista fou un funcionalisme hostil a la continuïtat històrica. En aquest cas, l’elaborada foneria de les baranes i el joc de la terra cuita aporten expressió i relleu al bloc. L’original constava d’un pis menys.1858 - 1860
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1860
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1861
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Bloc d''Habitatges Carreras Artau
autoria desconeguda
Adquirit per aquesta nissaga d’intel·lectuals, és objecte d’una reforma que li atorga unes façanes del neoclassicisme eclèctic més preciosista de la ciutat. Es tracta d’una excel·lent mostra de bloc residencial: la pedra calcària local, la textura que remarca el morter, la qualitat i la geometria dels balcons, el joc d’orles diverses que delimiten els pisos, la cornisa... Resulten també interessants l’accés i el traçat de l’escala.1863



































