Valencia_Modernism


 * The North Railroad Station.**

Carrer d'Alacant, Valencia, Spain.

Characteristics:


 * It is the most important work of Demetrio Ribes Marco.
 * It’s a great modernist building with influence of Otto Wagner and reminiscences of the English Gothic and Rationalism.
 * It has a rectangular plant with two differentiated areas: an immense hangar with a structure of articulate arches of steel with a very innovative covering, and a building for travelers with a U form that embraces the hangar.
 * The U shaped building has pillars which are independent to the structure.
 * It displays a homogeneous and unique treatment to its interiors as well as the exterior, making a homenage to Valencian industry and oranges.
 * The facades are rhythmically developed according to horizontal schematism.
 * The building has lateral towers that present Gothic elements, with scarce height and vertical rhythms that don’t break their horizontality.
 * The crowning of the building is defined by Gothic elements and terminal pinnacles.
 * It presents decoration of ceramic elements in the facades, inspired by Valencian agriculture.
 * The city coat of arms is repeated in a constant way around the building, as well as allusive elements to the Iron Roads Company of the North.
 * There are two mosaic panels symmetrically places in the central block, carried out in Madrid by Jaumejeán Brothers.
 * There is a forge work and profusion of ceramics throughout the interior, with a fundamental thematic in typical Valencian elements.
 * The lobby is decorated with glazed ceramic.
 * There is a clock surrounded by ceramic flowers and oranges, set into the facade of the main building.

Cirilio Amoros
 * Mercado Colón**

Characteristics:
 * Public market build by Francisco Mora Berenguer.
 * Used to be an old gas factory.
 * It is an open building that integrates to the surrounding space.
 * Its structure it’s cleanly resolved based in prototypes of the industrial architecture.
 * It has a rectangular basilical plant.
 * It has two stone facades set in brick, tiles and ceramic.
 * There are two naves and two large lateral canopies that cover part of the sidewalks.
 * The central nave is covered with a steel structure and a glass skylight sustained by three arches with rolled channel section and cast-iron columns.
 * It is surrounded by a wrought-iron railing, with masonry-work base, enhanced with small towers and two facades with mosaic veneer.
 * The decoration is concentrated in the mosaic facades, which provide the aspect of Triumph arches.
 * The main facade is conceived as a sloping semicircular arch with contrast on materials and a mixture of ceramic and mosaics creating a rich polychrome.
 * The posterior facade has a curved tympanum made of glass and iron, between two towers crowned by domes, in the style of Gaudi.
 * It possesses certain decoration elements in stone and broken tiles employed as mosaic on undulated surfaces reminding us of the ornament solutions by Gaudi.