Modernism_Valencia

** The Central Market (Plaça del mercat) **

 Name of the building: The Central Market Location: The market came into being in the Arabian Valencia, in the area around the principal mosque, in a labyrinth of streets and small squares. Plaça del mercat  Architect: Enrique Viedma. Characteristics: + The plant is an irregular polygon of 14 sides with a great iron, glass and ceramic dome, that occupies the central part. + Its structure is formed by wooden semi-domes that sustain the Moorish tile roofs. + The stained-glass windows adorn the interior and the exterior creating a dynamic space. + In both plants, the circulation is hierarchical, long rectilinear streets crossed by two wide roads where the 959 stands are located. + The style is eclectic pre-modernist, combining the Catalan constructivist tradition and the first architecture in iron. + It presents non-bearing closing walls which are closed by iron blinds in their high part. + The walls covered with tiles in their lower part, together with the stone, wood and stained-glass windows enhance the lighting coming from these as well as from the domes and diverse points of the cover, conforming a polychrome modernist historical monument of Valencia.  **The North Railroad Station**

 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Name of the building: The North Railroad Station. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Location: Colon Av. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Architect: Demetrio Ribes Marco. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Characateristics: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">+ The building has a rectangular plant with two well differentiated areas: In the first place, the immense hangar, with a length of196 m., and 45m. wide, trussed with a structure of articulate arches of laminate steel. The covering of this hangar was very innovative in their time, it is superimposed to the walls of the building for travellers and they form some bi-articulated riveted arches. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">+ This building display a homogeneous and unique treatment, in the exterior as well as in the finishes of the interior, making a homage to Valencian industry and, especially to oranges. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">+ The facades are rhythmically developed according to modules of a great horizontal schematism. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">+ On the facades, there is a profuse decoration of ceramic elements and topics inspired by Valencian agriculture. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">+ In the interior, the forge work and the profusion of ceramics gets our attention, with showy colors whose fundamental thematic are typical Valencian elements like oranges, orange blossom, baskets with fruits, garlands, scenes of the lagoon, barracks and women dressed in the regional costumes. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">