Casa Pomar

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Facade of Casa Pomar

Casa Pomar is a modernist apartment building located at number 86, Carrer de Girona, Barcelona.

<i>Modernisme</i> architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain

Modernisme, also known as Catalan modernism, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain. Nowadays, it is considered a movement based on the cultural reivindication of a Catalan identity. Its main form of expression was in architecture, but many other arts were involved, and especially the design and the decorative arts, which were particularly important, especially in their role as support to architecture. Modernisme was also a literary movement.

Barcelona City and municipality in Catalonia

Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.

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Designed by the Catalan architect Joan Rubió y Bellver (18711952), a pupil of Antoni Gaudí, construction of the building began in 1904 and was completed in 1906.

The Catalans are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia of mediterranean and Pyrenean descent, having its roots in the Pyrenees mountains. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department, also called Northern Catalonia and Pays Catalan in French.

Joan Rubió Spanish architect

Joan Rubió y Bellver was a Spanish architect famous for his contributions to the Catalan Modernista movement.

Antoni Gaudí Spanish architect

Antoni Gaudi

Despite the building having a narrow facade, its architect achieved a distinctive appearance for the building's western side with the construction of a bow window on the first floor, above which are several balconies on upper floors. The bow window's base is constructed of green ceramic tiles and wrought iron, its appearance inspired by the neo-Gothic style.

Facade Exterior side of a building, usually the front but not always

A facade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually the front. It is a foreign loan word from the French façade, which means "frontage" or "face".

Ceramic Inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat

A ceramic is a solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, and brick.

Gothic Revival architecture Architectural movement

Gothic Revival is an architectural movement popular in the Western world that began in the late 1740s in England. Its momentum grew in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws features from the original Gothic style, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, hood moulds and label stops.

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First floor bow window of Casa Pomar

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References

    Permanyer, Lluís (1992). Barcelona Modernista. Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafo. ISBN   9788434307001

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    Coordinates: 41°23′44″N2°10′13″E / 41.3956°N 2.1703°E / 41.3956; 2.1703

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