Showing posts with label rationalist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rationalist. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

A Coruña-San Cristovo Railway Station, 1935, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain


The A Coruña San Cristovo Railway Station was finished in 1935 and designed by architect Antonio Gascué Echeverría in a rationalist style. More information here:


It is a very pleasant terminus connecting A Coruña with central Spain.









Festina clocks are a fine feature of this station.




Photos taken on 3rd May, 2018.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Main Post Office, 1927-1931, Plaza del Alcalde Manuel Casas, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

This beautiful main post office in A Coruna was featured on a 2002 Spanish postage stamp. Built between 1927 and 1931 on land reclaimed from the sea, the architects of this eye-catching gem were Luis Lozano Losilla and Joaquin Otamendi Machimbarrena. All components of this large building, which is easily the best-designed construction in this part of the city, seem to flow easily one into the next, they are so well-coordinated.

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 All photos taken on 3rd May, 2018.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Palazzo delle Poste di Palermo, 1920s, Palermo, Italy


Sitting on a bus going along Via Roma in Palermo, the visitor cannot help but be impressed by the sight of the magnificent post office. According to Isabelle Lomholt on e-architect, the post office "is a large rationalist building designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in the early 1920s. The style of the building is typical of the fascist period whilst the interiors are futuristic, one of the few intact examples of the time, with frescoes by Benedetta Cappa, wife of Marinetti." The pictures below will take you on a tour, mostly of the exterior.