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In this first stage, the catalogue focuses on the modern and contemporary architecture designed and built between 1832 –year of construction of the first industrial chimney in Barcelona that we establish as the beginning of modernity– until today.
The project is born to make the architecture more accessible both to professionals and to the citizens through a website that is going to be updated and extended. Contemporary works of greater general interest will be incorporated, always with a necessary historical perspective, while gradually adding works from our past, with the ambitious objective of understanding a greater documented period.
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2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
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Red Tower
Detached single-family house (currently divided into two houses), surrounded by a garden, with a tower at the back which has a square base and an octagonal upper body. It has a complex structure, with a Greek cross plan, made up of several bodies that have roofs on two sides. The material used in is exposed brick, which gave the house its name. The Red Tower was built in 1899 following the criteria of the eclectic architecture typical of that period, although it incorporated some medieval elements. The urbanisation of the Sant Ramon Street area (the old road from Cerdanyola to Sant Cugat), which became known as the "Dalt neighbourhood", had begun around 1828 with the construction of houses in some land owned by the Serraparera farm. Subsequently, new construction processes were carried out there, especially during the 1860s and 1880s. (Dating provided by source) -
Sitges Municipal Market
Building located in the oldest part of Sitges, next to the Casa de la Villa. It is a single-nave building with a gable roof. The brick façade has a symmetrical composition and the most notable element is the iron canopy at the entrance. Originally, the market was an isolated building; later, a new body was added to join it to other buildings. The Sitges market building was the first iron construction in the town. It was designed and directed by the municipal architect Gaietà Buigas i Monravà, and is the first Sitges building. The plans date from 1889. The auction of the works was awarded to Pere Ferran for 24,700 pesetas. The market was officially inaugurated on the 15th of August 1890. The original drawings of the cast-iron marquee at the entrance, also by Gaietà Buïgas, still survive from 1891. In 1935, expansion work was carried out. -
Casa Cortina
Es tracta d'un edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa, tres pisos i golfes. A la planta baixa s'obren dos arcs rebaixats, formant una porxada. Aquests dos arcs marquen els dos eixos verticals en els quals es distribueixen les obertures. Les obertures són balcons que varien de mida segons l'alçada, marcant un ordre jeràrquic. Els balcons són volats i destaquen les baranes de ferro forjat. La façana queda rematada per una galeria de finestres clàssiques, entre les quals hi ha disposades unes columnes d'ordre clàssic. A la cornisa hi ha disposada una barana decorada amb motius gotitzants. -
Palau Comella
Casa de grans dimensions que abasta gairebé una illa del Centre Vic: pl. del Mercadal, c/ Verdaguer i Rbla. Hospital. La façana principal es troba mirant el c/ Verdaguer, l'edifici consta de planta baixa, primer pis i segon pis i al damunt s'hi obren uns badius. El portal central de planta baixa és adovellat i al damunt s'hi formen unes grosses balconades i al segon pis unes tribunes. En aquest mateix cos s'hi observen dos capcers escalonats, que tenen una funció decorativa. A l'interior i a nivell de primer pis hi ha uns amplis jardins. També hi observem una torre de planta quadrada amb molts elements decoratius. Tota la casa està plena d'elements ornamentals que en certs moments tenen connotacions gòtiques com podem veure pels trencaaigües i les gelosies. És una construcció modernista, edificada l'any 1896, d'influència medieval com es pot veure per la torreta i les diferents torres. Vers l'any 1869 s'enderrocaren les muralles i la ciutat es va poder expansionar. Aquesta casa forma part de l'eixample que es produí a partir de 1900. Al redós d'aquest any s'obrí el carrer de Verdaguer per tal de comunicar-lo amb l'escola el Crall i diverses dependències de la casa de la Vila. La planta baixa és destinada a comerços. -
Charity House
Religious building made up of two parts. On the one hand, the front part, where the entrance is located, in the form of a square tower crowned by a four-sided dome covered with ceramics. On the other hand, the back part, has a rectangular plan covered by a gable roof and with large side windows. All the ornamental elements that make up the ensemble are located in a neo-Gothic and eclectic tradition: bipartite windows with a column and Gothic tracery, trefoils and mouldings that serve as ogival-shaped dust guards, semicircular arches and attached columns with Corinthian capitals. The facings are of red bricks with white stuccoed recesses in the corners and framing the openings in the fashion of false arches. Access is via a staircase presided over by an ogival portal where you can read Casa Benèfica, on top of the year 1901 and a double window. There are many subsequent annexes suitable for the specific needs of the moment. Despite the construction dates given by Gaietà Buigas, 1901 is written on the façade. -
Clock House
Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà, Ignasi Mas Morell
The Clock House is one of the most characteristic buildings in Sitges, and it stands on the corner between Carrer Major and Carrer A. Vidal and opens onto the Plaça Cap de la Vila, to whose configuration it makes a decisive contribution. It is a large building between partitions, with a ground floor, three floors and a roof with a sinuous railing. It is accessed through three doors, two of them located on Carrer Major and Carrer A. Vidal, and the third and main door on the square. The distribution of the rest of the openings, which are generally rectangular, is rectangular. The most remarkable part of the building is the one on the corner with Carrer Major, which has a wooden tribune on the first floor and, above all, an overhanging tower, where the clock that gives the house its name is located and which ends in a spike covered with a mosaic of white, yellow and blue tiles. Overall, the decorative elements play a very important role in the external appearance of the building: ceramics, iron and sgraffito, although the latter are quite damaged. The Clock House, known as "Casa del Rellotge" is located at Cap de la Vila, where in the 17th century there was one of the six gates of the new wall of Sitges. This area was reformed according to the initial project by Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà, approved on 17-6-1889 and carried out with many modifications by Ignasi Mas i Morell in 1913. In December 1912, permission was requested for the construction of the building. The project was presented in May 1913 and was approved by the Town Council. The work was completed in 1915 – the date that appears sgraffitoed on the corner of Carrer d'Àngel Vidal. -
Millet House
Civil building made up of a ground floor, a first floor, an attic and a roof. Three openings are distributed on each floor: a central one and two symmetrically arranged lateral ones. Around the windows there are sgraffitos of typical modernist sinuous lines, as are the elegant balconies on the first floor, while those on the ground floor are formed by a classical balustrade. The typical balustrade on the roof has been replaced by a running border of vegetal motifs. The interior is totally eclectic: neoclassical, romantic, oriental, modernist. The dining room has a modernist lantern, and so does the gate. The ceiling of the dining room is Neomudejar and the wall is decorated with Leonardo's Last Supper and the Four Seasons.
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