Gran Garaje Building

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Gran Garaje
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The Gran Garaje façade
Gran Garaje Building
General information
TypeGarage
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Location Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates 42°25′50.3″N8°38′33.3″W / 42.430639°N 8.642583°W / 42.430639; -8.642583 Coordinates: 42°25′50.3″N8°38′33.3″W / 42.430639°N 8.642583°W / 42.430639; -8.642583
Completed1915
Owner Mango
Management Mango
Technical details
Floor count1
Design and construction
Architect(s)Maximiliano Limeses Artime

The Gran Garaje is an Art Nouveau building dating from 1915, located in the city centre of Pontevedra, Spain.

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Location

The building is located at Benito Corbal Street, in the pedestrian and commercial centre of the city, near Plaza de la Herrería in Pontevedra, Spain.

History

The building was built in 1915 in the old Progreso street, according to a project by the architect Maximiliano Limeses Artime. It was built on a plot of land where there were some old garages. [1] The building was built to serve as a stopping place for horse-drawn carriages. [2]

In the 1960s, with the rise of the car in the city, [3] its facade was renovated, the new roof was built and the building was renamed the Gran Garaje, [4] serving as a paid car park with a capacity of 75 vehicles (hence its name). In the 1970s, the side entrance areas of the building were used as two small shops, one for souvenirs and the other for toys. In the 1980s, years of great real estate speculation in the city, it was saved from demolition for the construction of a multi-storey building when its sale was unsuccessful, leaving in view the dividing walls of the large buildings surrounding it. [2]

In 2014, the car park and the two small shops at the entrance were permanently closed. After a complete renovation of the facade and the interior, the building was opened on 5 May 2017 as a fashion shop of the Mango clothing chain. [5]

Description

The building has an Art Nouveau facade [5] and a large, spacious and diaphanous interior, due to the original function for which it was designed. It has an area of 900 square metres. [6]

It is a single-storey building with a ground floor. [2] The white facade has a large square wooden door recessed in the centre [6] and two elongated low-arched doors on each side. The roof, listed and protected as a heritage feature, consists of a roof lantern, a trellis and a roof pitch dating from 1965. [7] [8]

The Art Nouveau decoration with floral motifs is centred above the four side doors. The upper frieze is abundantly decorated and the central part of the façade above the large entrance door is crowned by a circular pediment framed between two small columns, under which is the inscription in relief Gran Garaje.

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References

  1. ↑ "La «milla de oro» recupera al Gran Garaje como superficie comercial". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 4 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Uno de los últimos vestigios de la época dorada del modernismo en la ciudad". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 7 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "El adiós del garaje que vio pasar los primeros coches de Pontevedra". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 9 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Arranca la rehabilitación del antiguo edificio del Gran Garaje". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 1 October 2016.
  5. 1 2 "El Gran Garaje comienza una nueva etapa como establecimiento comercial de una cadena de moda". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 6 May 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Patrimonio pone condiciones a la tienda de Mango en el Gran Garaje". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 12 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Patrimonio desbloquea el proyecto comercial en el antiguo Gran Garaje". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 7 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Mango desbloquea en el Concello su gran proyecto comercial en Benito Corbal". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 8 July 2016.

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