"Sitting at the table in a bar on Avenida Francisco de Miranda, enjoyed by the window of one of the best urban views of Caracas.
Galipán The building just opposite, looks splendid, great ocean liner of the fifties.
The glass facade where I am has blurred the abandoned debris and gives some brightness dimmed.
also masses of the two monstrous loud neighbors, confused by the reflection of the window, and almost disappear somewhat annoy me less. Immensely enjoy the view, and my Gin & Tonic. imagine what it was that place 1952 when he inaugurated the building.
Avenue as we said once in a book by the Institute of Urban Architecture 1, would look "brand new" practically built for the exclusive use of the "giant mega-structure in the middle of large vacant lots of land ".
The building sits majestically on its shores as an "urban world in itself, as an isolated piece of town."
Back then we had chosen the top 10 multifamily buildings of the fifties and he redrawn affectionately your plants, its sections and elevations, taking care to delineate While each sill, each rail, each wing (which are so familiar with his remarkable relative, the Hotel Tamanaco, another great architect Gustavo Guinand) to to save for posterity, erecting it to our devoted efforts in a place of honor: one of the most trusted urban operations at the time.
Up on the top floor, a large restaurant crowning the bulky factory along a terrace above the central curve of the volume of holiday lights sparkling and full of people, and from each of the two penthouses on the five points of the building, tenants, all very chic people elbowed to get here to rent apartments, opened their beautifully decorated balconies in the light of the new Caracas.
were the first terraces of the city and were modeled after the beautiful and sophisticated urban balconies on the roof-tops of New York. The three triangles of the three buildings smashed together which is the residential Galipán formally make a graceful plant, which is very difficult to change of use. More modern times, but still live there much of the original people, the building is virtually offices. Sincere use changes without destroying the building is a challenge for anyone who wants renovated in the future.
Respect, in addition to the architecture of the author and Tamanaco Easo, who has seen him disappear a building (the Cine Lido) in the vicinity, is a moral duty that must be taken account.
And nothing less' guinandiano "which the colored glass, mirror galaxies. Bookstore also imagine this on the ground floor, which began to develop his long career as bookseller, and west Adler-Castillo Gallery, perhaps later, do another both the art.
I see the urban architecture, newly built, whose lobbies are a showcase of luxury materials wee gracefully with Carlone Tailoring House and Christian Dior, and a splendid display of BMW cars in central location, becoming the enclave of dandyism Caracas fifties.
This clever longitudinal transparent body, which the architect is very proud and receiving horizontally above the name of the building, made with a number of other elements of an "ode to the car" that also spoke for thirteen years.
a continuous front of the avenue, is juxtaposed with the concavities of the volumes of the building.
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Hannia Gomez, on his last look at the old building, now demolished.
Hannia Gomez, on his last look at the old building, now demolished.
