Ten very unique and little known Spanish buildings

Pedro Torrijos, a musician and architect who started Posting tweets in 2013, defines them as “places so strange they don’t seem to exist”. Then came LaBrasaTorrijos, a TV show on social networks.”Barcelona has always been more concerned with the image it presents to the outside world than with what it really is. So what better way to sum up Barcelona than to show the world the tower of the 1992 Olympic Games?” LaBrasaTorrijos said. He was referring to the Collserola communications Tower, designed by Norman Foster in 1991. It’s the main symbol of the city. He added: “A miracle, delicate, slender, elegant tower.” In my unconscious, I kept the images of those sports meetings as a happy moment. “It is due to the tower,” he stressed.

DISA service station in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 1956. The service station was signed by Fermin Suarez Valido and restored in 2017 by Studio Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos. I don’t think there were Germans there in 1956; “This kind of industrial architecture, between organism and rationalism, was built before beaches, developmentalism and islands were recognized,” says Torrijos. It’s a coffee shop at the moment.

In 2001, Alberto Campo Baeza, winner of the National Architecture Prize, designed the headquarters of the Caja Granada (now Bankia) with a huge platform. It’s one of the best corporate buildings ever built.” So much so that its owners offer guided Tours of the building.

Truel’s Catedral de Santa Maria de Mediavilla Cathedral is one of the best preserved Mudhar buildings in Spain and the world. Built between the 12th and 16th centuries, the ceiling is “very dazzling”.

Danish architect danes Jørn Utzon has abruptly left Australia in the midst of a controversy over overspending at the Sydney Opera House, seeking peace and quiet in the Balearic Islands. In 1972, he built Can Lis near Petro Harbor as a family home. This is a poem to his wife Lis and the Mediterranean, perhaps the most timeless house in the history of architecture. He didn’t stay there very long.” Legend has it that the sound of waves crashing against the cliff made him uneasy. When the building became famous and curious onlookers started arriving, he designed another house, Can Feliz, away from the sea, using more traditional architectural methods. Currently, Can Lis is the headquarters of the Jørn Utzon Foundation and is open to the public for a few days each year.

“This is one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture in the world.” Fifty meters from Piazza Espana, half hidden and not in guidebooks, dates back to 1753 by Ventura Rodriguez. This is the glory of oval architecture, an orgy of spatial control.

In 2005, Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tunon designed the Leon Museum of Contemporary Art (Musac), whose exterior glass is a reinterpretation of the stained glass Windows of Leon’s Cathedral. Torrijos considers it “the best building in this powerful mix, a great modern building that not only does not compete with historic buildings, but also wins the affection of the locals of Leon, which is rare.

Proaza hydropower station in Asturias, designed by Joaquin Vaquero Palacios, completed in 1968. This is perhaps the best example of Spain’s industrial architectural heritage.

“In the barren land of Caceres, a village was born. It sprouts from the ground as naturally and simply as a plant; As humble and happy as the oak and thyme Vegaviana nestles “. LaBrasaTorrijos quotes Jose Antonio Marina to describe this colonized village, which was born from nothing in 1956, according to the design of Jose Luis Fernandez del Amo. The white houses around the church were filled with poets, living in families “like settlers from the west,” according to Torrijos.

The modernist and near-Moorish revival style, built in Melilla in 1927 according to the plans of Ramon Gironella and Enrique Nieto, can be seen in his ardent desire to spread. Torrijos said: “Something that not everyone knows is that in Spain, after Barcelona, and probably after Cartagena, the city with more modernist architecture is Melilla.