The Garages of the Port of Huelva
The Garages of the Port of Huelva These are two buildings for the Levante dock in Zafra Park, built by Francisco Montenegro in 1909. These depots were built to repair locomotives and as warehouse for the port of Huelva. Externally the building is in a modernist style contrasts with the functionality of this construction.It consists of two pavilions: one with three naves in which there is an interpretation center housed where the consequences of the industrial revolution and the history of the mining exploitation in the province are explained. The second of two ships in use as a Cultural Center and where various events such as concerts, exhibitions, plays, etc. are held. This building fell into disuse and was rehabilitated in 2011
Building for offices of the Port Works and Services Board
Building for offices of the Port Works and Services Board - Architects: José María Morales Lupiáñez, Luís Gómez Estern, Roberto de Juan Valiente 1960 - 1966Current name: Port Authority BuildingsThe building is located on the west side of the city, in the northern corner of the dock gardens, orienting its access to Real Colombina Onubense Avenue. It is located in the long garden strip that separates the dock from the city, very close to the Port Authority pavilions that give entrance to the dock, maintaining a close functional relationship with them.The program was organized in three blocks that move from one another to adapt to the dimensions of the plot: the two-story office building with a basement that housed the administrative offices, the two-story director's engineer's home, and the concierge's home. a single plant.The uniqueness of this building lies in the plastic composition of its exteriors. A white stone cladding surrounds the whole, adapting its layout to the size and arrangement of the generous openings that double the corners. No less interesting seems the careful study of the carpentry that responds to a varied arrangement of openings on the main façade and an arrangement of large continuous openings on the façade that opens to the park, reaffirming, with its proportions, the character horizontal of the building.@Marta Santofimia Albiñana and Julia Manzano Pérez de Guzmán
Edificio 12 de Octubro
This “brutalist” colossus "Edificio 12 de Octubro", has beautiful sloping parts and asymmetrical offsets. It is the iconic silhouette when entering the center of Huelva. Together with the tower next to it, it forms a kind of entrance gate that welcomes the traveler.It is the tallest building in Huelva and was for many years the tallest building in Western Andalusia. It has 18 floors and is 50 meters high, was built in 1968 and opened in 1971.
El antigua Comercial
El antigua ComercialConstruction began in 1921 under the leadership of José de la Corte, first president of the Centro de Instrucción Comercial (Sociedad Cultural y Recreativa). It was designed by architect José María Pérez Carasa and opened on January 1, 1923. A grand banquet was organized for 150 people, attended by the civil and military authorities.It was designed as a commercial instruction center with casino consisting of two floors and a tower with a facade on two streets, the current Jesús Nazareno and Béjar. The facade is eclectic and combines Mudejar, Renaissance and Baroque elements. The initials of the Commercial Instruction Center (CIC) can be seen on the capitals of the marble columns that support the round arches of the first floor balcony.The carnival parties in El Comercial and the New Year's Eve parties were famous. Easter was also intensely lived by the members, especially on Good Friday morning, when on the way back to the parish of La Concepción he sang arrows from the balconies of the building to the image of the Nazarene.After it fell into increasing disrepair, the building was purchased in 1996 by the Godosa company, and renovated while retaining the beautiful facade and some elements of the interior, such as the marble staircase with cast iron railing, the artistic ceramic canvases along the walls of the stairs, a glass room with the old city coat of arms and a large clock from the Regent brand.After the restoration of the building there was a bank on the ground floor and now there is a modern bar. The walls are decorated with a collection of six paintings by Huelva artist Juan Carlos Castro Crespo. The building has been adapted to the times and has retained part of its past.
Casa Rafael Mojarro
Casa Rafael Mojarro. A modernist building by architect José María Pérez Carasa from 1923. The typical decorative moldings of modernism are particularly striking. Today there is a well-known textile franchise.José María Pérez-Carasa, who was city architect of Huelva between 1914 and 1929 and who designed the city's first expansion plan in 1926, was also the architect of the current Instituto de Educación Secundaria La Rábida (IES La Rábida) and El antigua Comercial (project no. 4).The Reina Victoria district (project no. 24) is also one of his works. He built this project together with the English architect R. H. Morgan and the architect Gonzalo Aguado between 1916 and 1923 on behalf of Rio Tinto Company Limited.
Monte Offices and Housing
Monte Offices and Housing - Modernist builings by the architects: José María Morales Lupiáñez, Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius, Roberto de Juan Valiente 1962 - 1965Current: Offices, cultural center and homes
Casa del Millón
Casa del Millón, also known as Casa Quintero Báez, is a historic building in the Spanish city of Huelva and now used as the home of the College of Architects.The Casa del Millón was built in 1916, in two periods between 1924 and 1931, as the home of Juan Quintero Báez, mayor of Huelva. It was designed by the architects Gonzalo Aguado and José María Pérez Carasa.The popular nickname is due to the urban legend that the building cost the then exorbitant cost of one million pesetas.The construction is part of the renovation of Calle Puerto, the then epicenter of the city's social life, where the headquarters of the City Hall and the Provincial Council were located.The new bourgeoisie of Huelva, enriched by the splendor of the city in the shadow of the Riotinto Mining Company, chose this street to build its monumental homes. Such as the Palacio of Mora Claros (project no. 7) or Casa Antonio Checa (project no. 8).The building was taken over in 1964 by the insurer Caja de Previsión y Socorro, which was located here until 1983. Due to its poor condition, it was then restored by the architects Ricardo and José Ramón Sierra Delgado, who adapted the building to the new headquarters of the College of Architects. In 1998, two more modifications were made, in 1998 by architect Millán García Lagares and from 2006 to 2011 by architect Manuel Ángel Vázquez.It is a largely classical building, but with modernist and art nouveau influences. The narrow main facade with two French-style towers faces the square where Puerto, Cardenal Albornoz and Mora Claros streets meet. Within the towers are several viewpoints with wrought iron and glass closures characteristic of Huelva's early 20th century architecture.
Palacio de Mora Claros
The Palacio de Mora Claros is a building on the former Calle Botica, now Calle Mora Claros, in the Spanish city of Huelva. It was built as the residence of businessman and politician Antonio Mora Claros and Josefa Jiménez Vázquez from an Alosno family and is currently a day care center for the elderly.At that time, Calle Puerto was the most sought-after location for the construction of houses for the emerging bourgeoisie.The Palace of Mora Claros was designed by architect Moisés Serrano in 1912. The additions with more elegance and more expensive details that were added in the spring of 1919 were designed by architect José María Pérez Carasa, who maintained the basic principles.The building was plundered by the "Marxites" in 1936, after which the Countess of Mora Claros extensively restored the palace, giving it the sober and elegant style that can still be found in the facades, one of which (on Botica Street) ) contains her royal coat of arms.In 1949, the provincial public library was established in various parts of the ground floor of the building.It was taken over by the Junta de Andalucía in 1997 and was subsequently restored and adapted for its new use as a day center for the elderly.It is a stylistically eclectic construction. One of the corners of the facade is crowned with a French-style tower.The openings on the lower floor are framed with classically decorated moldings and corbels at the top, which support the balconies on the upper floor. These balconies have wrought iron and glass bay windows with Renaissance influences.In the interior, the classic taste of plasterwork with consoles and cherubs alternates with modernist elements such as wrought iron railings with copper flowers or the large stained glass window in the courtyard lobby. These are motifs that refer to the discovery of America and feature plants and landscape decorations. Also striking are the tiled skirting boards with plant and animal decorations, inspired by the Andalusian tradition. Photos: Alejandro Saldána / Germán Rodriguez
Palacio Antonio Checa Núñez
Casa Antonio Checa (UGT) on Calle Puerto (opposite the Millón House and the Palacio Mora Claros). A special building from 1904 by Francisco Monís.It combines different styles, including modernism and neo-Gothic. It is one of the most beautiful places in the city. The two towers and two stained glass windows are remarkable.
Santa Fe market
The market in Santa Fe was designed in 1899 by the city architect Manuel Pérez y González. But after some problems with the implementation of the metal armor on the roof, the building was completed in 1905 by architect Francisco Monís y Morales.It was briefly used as a market, as it soon had to be closed as it did not respond well to its function. made of exposed brick, typical of the industrial architecture of the beginning of the century and a large iron and glass roof in a pyramidal shape. In addition to being a market, it was a warehouse, library, museum and finally housing soldiers.The architect approached the design of the Huelva market as a large square building, with the four pavilions and central patio covered, creating a single open space only interrupted by the cast columns, of a thinness that made them almost invisible.This model spread throughout Spain, however, the municipal architect from Huelva wanted to provide originality to his project by applying the Polonceau system. To do this, he designed the building according to the maximum span allowed by this technique, 25 m, inspired by foreign models such as the Perrache train station in Lyon, or the Civitavecchia or St. Germain markets in Paris, with 24 m of span. In this way it can be said that there is no other market with a concentric square and covered plan that uses only Polonceau type trusses.
Former Vasquerez clinic
Modernist palace house on Calle La Fuente. The two metal closures and the modernist moldings at this former Vázquez Limón clinic are striking.The property is located at 11 La Fuente Street, which connects Plaza de San Pedro with La Palmera. It was built in the first decade of the last century. This modernist building was built in 1900, the only building from that time still standing on this street.At that time it was a private home where the famous surgeon from Huelva, Francisco Vázquez Limón, practiced.
Banc of Spain Building
Banco de España (architect: José Yárnoz Larrosa, 1935-1938) A monumental neoclassical building in the Plaza de las Monjas. The corner and the beautiful columns provide a colossal appearance.It is closed for many years and will have a cultural and museum function in the future.
Casa de la Bola - Former Hotel Paris
Casa de la Bola, also called Hotel Paris, is an impressive modernist and regionally inspired building that combines the exposed brick of the period with typical tiles. The golden dome is known as the 'ball house'.Antonio García Ramos commissioned the construction to the architect Francisco Monís y Morales in 1907 and is located on the current Plaza de las Monjas; the Square of the Nuns in the center of the capital and at the back of the Palace of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. Monís designed a building divided into two separate sectors. The first part is designed as a residential and retail building and part two as a hotel.The facade consists of both classicist and modernist elements, including brick and tiles, with a finishing of the second building with a three-quarter spherical dome.Over time, the building lost its function as a hotel and two new floors were added to the upper floors of the second building and the first part was demolished.In 2009, the first part was completely rebuilt, keeping the original facade and adding two floors.From 2009 to 2012, the first building was the exhibition center of the Provincial Council of Huelva and the second building was used for shops.
Palacio de los Duques de Medins Sidonia
Palace of the Duke of Medina Sidonia is the city's oldest civil building and is located on Palacio Street and dates back to the 17th century. A large building that fits in with the typical architecture of the city. It is now, after the necessary renovations, an office building with a restaurant on the ground foor, where the residents of Huelva come to enjoy the various Mediterranean dishes that restaurant 'La Mafia offers. The building was built from 1656 to 1658, when Gaspar Alonso de Guzmán commissioned it for his first-born successor Conde de Niebla, Gaspar Juan Alonso, who would live in Huelva from 1654 until shortly before his death in 1667. More houses were purchased in 1664 and 1672. In 1777 it became the property of the Marquis de Villafranca of the House of Toledo and Duke of Medina Sidonia.The building was also home to Huelva's institutional life and was the seat of the town hall, as the building on the Plaza de San Pedro was destroyed in the early 19th century, until it moved to Calle Puerto in 1840.Later, on November 16, 1835, the installation session of the Provincial Council of Huelva was held, a provincial body that would later have the seat of the Monastery of La Merced, acquired in 1863 by Almarqués de Villafranca, a property that is still preserved.It was also the seat of the civil government or political headquarters from 1834 until it was moved to the new headquarters on Gran Vía. In 1852, the building was renovated by Governor Alonso y Castillo for official use.Although the first floor remains the seat of the civilian government, in 1888 the new owner - Antonio García Ramos - put the ground floor to commercial use. This provides a new appearance, partly if the municipal council gives permission to convert two window openings in the palace house into a door.
Casa e Papelaria Muñoz
The historic building of the Muñoz family on Palacio Street has regained its original facade through the restoration of the building at Via Palacio 13.It is undoubtedly one of the most representative elements of the architectural heritage in Huelva. It was built in 1909, with design and direction by architect Francisco Hernandez Rubio. This building belonged to the Muñoz family, who edited the magazine La Provincia. Two important Onuben (from Huelva) writers lived there: María Luisa Muñoz de Vargas, heir to the family, and Rogelio Buendía, whom he married.The building, an old English stationery shop, is the symbol of Huelva in the first part of the 20th century is located in the center of the city facing the secular commercial street of reference in Huelva. The property has three stories high, developing a commercial premises on the ground floor and two homes on the upper floors.The slender and asymmetrical composition of the façade, motivated by its greater height than its length, accentuated by some vertical clean brick fascias that divide the façade are unified with the use of the predominant chamfered glazed brick in a group where the tumido arch stands out on the first floor and the use of spaces where the framing of lintels and jambs opt for curved lines in a definition close to the modernist language.Also notable is the stone balcony on corbels to which the splendid carpentry that closes the tumid arch opens, the grille modernist style of the same balcony and the access gate to the hallway on the ground floor. Behind the restoration of the building is a company from Huelva, Grupo Lyncis, who have taken over the entire building to restore the original elements of the facade and turn it into a contemporary symbol as the headquarters of real estate company Lyncis Real State.During the restoration/renovation of the new commercial building, the original ground floor facade was restored with the arch that can still be admired in the old photo."The building is located in the center of the city and gives the facade to the secular reference commercial street in Huelva.The architect responsible for the project, Alfredo González González, says that the restoration of the iconic arched facade has received a lot of attention in their action plan.
The Círculo Mercantil y Agrícola society
Círculo Mercantil y Agrícola was founded on September 27, 1861 in the city of Huelva by residents of Huelva.The activities reflected the economic and social momentum that Huelva experienced at the end of the 19th century. The Círculo was a symbol of great celebrations, dances, literary gatherings and lectures and was actively involved in the major events in the provincial capital, especially in the major commemorative events in Huelva on the occasion of the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America in 1926.During the more than one hundred years that the center existed, it was a must for those involved in trade, agriculture and the other living forces of the Andalusian capital. It was housed in a beautiful building with spacious and comfortable halls, a large and well-maintained library, large billiards, a bathroom, pastry shop, etc. and other outbuildings, all furnished according to the most modern guidelines of hygiene and good taste.Prominent businessmen such as José Muñoz Pérez, father of the poet María Luisa Muñoz de Vargas, director and owner of the newspaper La Provincia and the printer Muñoz, who would also become mayor of the city, have the position of president of the organization in Huelva lined.The two-story building was designed by architect Trinidad Soriano Hidalgo and opened on October 12, 1889. The facade is decorated with neo-Renaissance details.In 1899 some salons were renovated. The new Japanese-style furnishings in the stove lounge, directed by the painter Fernando Martínez Checa. He was a drawing teacher at the high school in Huelva, where he remained until 1907.The building is included in the catalog of Noble houses and houses of the high bourgeoisie with unique values for the historic center of Huelva.
Case Antonio Mojarro
Casa Antonio Mojarro or former Sanz de Frutos Clinic (current headquarters of the Andalusian Youth Institute and, previously, the Conservatory of Music). Built in modernist style in 1910 by architect Francisco Hernández Rubio and rehabilitated in 1985 by architect José Álvarez Checa.It is a two-story building with an attic roof, which is organized around a central patio covered by a three-bay roof. Its façade, as the IAPH points out, is symmetrical, made of stone and with floral ornamentation and geometric details, very much in French taste. It's on Rico Street.A beautiful building in which its windows and main door stand out, showing that it was a stately home in Huelva from the beginning of the century.
Palacio de las Conchas
It is located opposite the Grand Theater. A beautiful palace from the 1920s, in a careful and harmonious neo-Renaissance style built in the early 20th century by architect José María Pérez Carasa on Calle Vázquez López. It used to be a clinic. The palace has glass panes, pottery and window columns and the shells that give it its name. This palace also was the residence of one of the city's most important bullfighters, Antonio Chamaco. It is part of the Route de los Toreros designed by the Ministry of Tourism.
Antigua sede del Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos de Huelva (COAATH)
COAATH was from the end of 2007 to 2012 located in the majestic building at Calle Vázquez López 19. The renovated and adapted facilities of the College of Mechanics are owned by the three social courts and the Penitenciatenitentiary Surveillance Court.Prior to this building, the institution had a space on Palos Street. The windows were built by Francisco Monís Morales in Art Deco style and forged by Thomas Morrison. The building on Vázquez López Street was restored in 2007.
Gran Teatro de Huelva
The Gran Teatro is a cultural building in the Spanish municipality of Huelva in the province of the same name. The work of architect Pedro Sánchez Núñez (1882-1956). It opened on August 30, 1923 as the Royal Theater, the main theater of the city of Huelva.The city's population explosion due to the industrial boom of the late 19th century made it clear that Huelva was sorely lacking in cultural infrastructure. In the following century, and especially in the 20th century, the press advocated the construction of a theater that met the city's new demands. In the early 20th century, cultural buildings such as the Teatro Colón or the Teatro Mora and the Teatro Cómico were outdated and unsafe. On October 7, 1921 for a new building for theater and film performances.After the building fell into disrepair it was renovated in the late 1980s according to a design by the architect Antonio de la Lama Lamamie. It was reopened on July 18, 1990. The facade has been completely restored with respect for each of the artistic and decorative elements that make up the facade.The interior of the building was restored and an attempt was made to combine the traditional artistic-decorative elements, such as the ceiling of the hall, the front of the stage, furniture, lamps, balustrades, etc., with the new technical requirements and challenges of a modern stage hall.The ground floor space was also redistributed by renovating the entrances, lobbies and stairs, expanding the dressing rooms and building new offices, workshops and a rehearsal room..
Edificio de Hacienda
Edificio de HaciendaThe renovation of the Hacienda building is a project that has been pending for the city of Huelva for decades. After closure, the building gradually deteriorated to the point that it had to be demolished, with the facade preserved and the building completely renovated into an administrative building.The first photo shows the neo-herreric facade in its pure form from the 1950s. It was designed by architect Julián Laguna and opened in December 1953.The renovation architects Cordón and Liñán have created a new design, which will be enveloped in the neoclassical facade, which they say was 'the regime of power at that time'. The new project aims to give it a more contemporary character that contrasts with the historic character of the original facade, giving it a new, recessed floor. The architects of the project indicate that 'the building must be connected to its current democratic character'.
Huelva City Council
The Huelva Town Hall is one of those buildings that catches the attention of every tourist when they walk along Gran Vía. It was built in 1949, on part of the old site of the San Francisco Monastery and is located in the Plaza de la Constitucion 4.The building was built by the architect Alejandro Herrero in Herrerian style, where the two side towers with their capitals stand out. The city offices are located around a beautiful courtyard, with arches and columns in Andalusian style. «It attracts attention for its style, which is very rare in Andalusia»
Barriadas Huerta de Mena y La Esperanza
Barriadas Huerta de Mena y La EsperanzaArchitecten: Alejandro Herrero Ayllón, Francisco Riestra Limeses, Francisco Sedano Arce, José María Morales Lupiáñez, Juan Miguel Rodríguez Cordero, Ricardo Anadón Frutos 1948 - 1958The urban implementation scheme of the neighborhood consists of three orthogonal plots that accommodate the turn of Federico Mayo and Federico Molina streets thanks to the insertion of two triangular wedges between them. The different housing blocks are based on this plot, which respond to very diverse typologies, although the closed blocks and the series of H-shaped blocks attached to each other clearly stand out.As a consequence, the predominant urban form is that of the corridor street is combined with other arrangements that recall the diffuse urban structures generated by isolated blocks. In general, these spaces, widely landscaped and often for pedestrian use, are characterized by their great environmental quality. Regarding the architecture, despite the different architects who worked on it, a certain unified image prevails in the complex: The blocks four stories high predominate.The ground floor is highlighted as the base of the buildings. The windows and balconies follow one another, homogeneously piercing the volume. The walls are rendered and painted in white and there are a profusion of flights and balconies on the top floors, which try to stand out as the finishing touch of the complex.@Ángel López Macías, Ana María Mojarro Bayo and Marta Santofimia Albiñan
Service Station
Service Station - Avda. Alcalde Federico Molina - 1955 Architect: Alejandro Herrero AyllónThis service station stands out as a striking modern monument at an urban intersection at the foot of the adjacent Barrio Reina VictoriaArchitect Alejandro Herrero subtly combines a number of basic elements in a functional triangular plan with a trident formed by a central slender tower surrounded by undulating canopies of reinforced concrete on V-shaped bearing points that swarm around the tower like butterflies.The concrete construction of the shell roofs was made with care and has remained well preserved to this day. An eye-catching and surprising modernist appearance that has surprisingly retained its relevance and function after all these years
San Sebastian Municipal Market
An announcement about the auction competition for the construction of Mercado was published in 1953.Mayor Rafael Lozano Cuerda was the leader of the city of Huelva when the construction of the San Sebastian market was approved and started. A few meters from the densely populated Avenidas de Pío body-built housing plan of the Huerta de Mena district.During the municipal council of August 2, 1957, an auction approved the allocation of the stalls to the one who would adopt the name Mercado del Caudillo in the first phase of its history. This award passed from father to child or other family members.
Neighbourhood Riena Victoria
This unique neighbourhood was created by the Riotinto Limited mining company for its workers at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the province of Huelva was enjoying great economic prominence as a result of the exploitation of its mines.The neighbourhood was built in two phases. First, a primitive project from 1916 involving one-story houses that bring English architecture to mind, based on the "Garden City" concept, with a ring road, islets with gardens and public services (gardens, a casino, a library). Later, in 1922, the architects Aguado and Pérez Carasa were responsible for designing new housing blocks, now with two floors, which give the complex a peculiar aesthetic and much better than the original design.A stroll through the streets will take you back in time to a crucial moment in the recent history of the province of Huelva. Since 1977 it has been catalogued as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
León Ortega Art School
León Ortega Art SchoolA few meters from the Barrio Obrero we find this building from the end of the 19th century, which was the municipal slaughterhouse at the time. This old slaughterhouse owes its name to an entire neighborhood which is one of the few in the city not formed at the foot of a church, but rather one civil building.Built in 1896 by the architect Trinidad Gallego and made of exposed brick, fall the facade and the inner patio. It currently houses the León Ortega School of Art, where you can study from high school to higher studies related to arts. “A building that marks the identity of an entire neighborhood"
La Casona
LA CASONA - now a restaurant - is a historic and iconic building in the city of Huelva, built in the 1920s and a home of the Muñoz family (Muñoz de Vargas). Interestingly, at the back there was a workspace for the family printing house, where the printing of Huelva's first newspaper, La Provincia, was prepared.This beautiful building of architectural and historical value is located on the Alameda Sundheim and is included in the catalog of buildings, elements and sights of Huelva.
Sagrada Familia Professional Schools Foundation
Sagrada Familia Professional Schools FoundationArchitect: Francisco de la Corte López (1964)Now: Pavilion of the SAFA Funcadia School Huelva
Casa Colon - Columbus House:
Columbus House: A symbol of British power in late 19th-century Huelva, the Casa Colón is the grandest of all the buildings constructed by the city's bourgeoisie around the same time. It is an imposing presence at the beginning of the Alameda Sundheim, with a terracotta façade and ornate wrought-iron balconies."Casa Colón" (Columbus House) was inaugurated as the Gran Hotel Colón in 1883, ready to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America in 1892. In the late 19th century Huelva was anxious to create a suitably luxurious hotel for receiving its increasing numbers of foreign visitors interested in investing in the mining industry, so the Huelva Hotel Company was born in 1881.Architect José Pérez Santamaría was commissioned the to design the building. Unfortunately it was not successful as a hotel so was sold shortly afterwards to the Río Tinto Company who used it for offices and housing their mining management staff. One section on the northern side was used as a social club, with a dancehall, library and billiards hall, with a tennis court outside. The building consists of four individual sections around a central courtyard with elegant gardens and a fountain.In 1992, the building was refurbished as part of the 500th anniversary celebrations, and the former northern section was replaced by a modern exhibition and conference centre, the site of the major Latin American Film Festival in November.
Rationalist multi-family house at Avenida Italia 101/103
Rationalist multi-family house at Avenida Italia 101/103Architect: José Maria Pérez Carasa (1937)
Station Huelva-Término
Huelva-Término, also known as Seville station, was a railway station in the Spanish municipality of Huelva in the province of the same name. The building in the neo-mudéjar style and its passing character was opened in 1888 as the terminal station of the railway line from Seville. The facility remained operational until its closure on April 22, 2018.Huelva station was designed by German businessman Guillermo Sundheim to provide good access to the mines in the north of the province. Sundheim commissioned architects Jaime Font and Pedro Soto to create a neo-Mudéjar style building that is strongly reminiscent of Islamic architecture, such as horseshoe-shaped entrance arches, brick facades and battlements. On the sides were two towers that were larger than the nave. The building dates from 1888.It is a building with a symmetrical composition of three parts: the central building consists of one floor with a gable roof and the side walls have two floors. The upper floors were intended for use as residences. It is built like a factory with bricks in very sleek shapes. The upper finish of the building is made with caliphal battlements and central pediments in Aragonese neomudéjar. The plinth is made of granite.
Cinema Rabida
Cinema Rábida (1931) is located on the corner of Calle Rábida 17 and Calle de La Paz 2 in Huelva. It was designed by architect Luis Gutiérrez Soto between 1931 and 1933 and is symbolically considered the building that opens the doors to rationalist architecture in the city. It is a reference for other architects' forays into the language of the modern movement.Gutiérrez Soto uses a refined rationalism with expressionist references, emphasizing the pronounced curved corner treatment, the rounded arches, the days and the rosy eyes. The round windows and light balustrades on the terraces refer to nautical architecture.When film use ceased in 2005, it was demolished for the construction of a residential building, but the facade was preserved.
Gas & Service Station Gon - Architects José Pablo Vázquez Hierro, César Morales Cuesta - 2002
According to its authors, “The criterion underpinning this project is the non-assumption of preconceptions, returning to the primary causes – programme, external conditions, materials – to create a project in which each element is defined by its own rationale.Based on a plot with clearly converging boundaries, the response to this determining condition is the disposition of a large roof to unify the project, shunning the juxtaposition of the built volume and canopy; beneath this roof and at the rear of the plot, the construction will adopt the form of a piece of furniture, with a structure comprising a diaphanous, open section at the front to accommodate the shop and a raised payment area, plus another more opaque split-level section at the rear with toilets on the ground floor and the changing rooms and office on the mezzanine.Expressed in this way, the work appears before the observer exactly as it is: the structure (in the compositional sense, which in this case largely coincides with the physical structure) appears bare and the materials – concrete, steel, glass and limestone – are what they appear to be.” (Huelva: An Architectural Guide)
Colegio San José de Calasanz or Ferroviarios
Colegio San José de Calasanz or Ferroviarios (1930) was built by architect Francisco Alonso Martínez. It is a listed building of historical importance. It was built to house the children of railway workers. It is built in a rationalist style.A project has been launched to renovate the former railway college into a community of collaborative housing for the elderly in an agreement between the City Council and the Senior Cohousing Huelva cooperative. The intention is to adapt the building to its new use as a residential care complex On the plot of 2,707 square meters there is a two-storey building in a state of disrepair, with towers and a constructed area of 1,750 square meters. The building will be renovated and the front garden and exterior facades will keep their original appearance and in the backyard, the recreation area of the old school, a new building will be built (with the limited parameters under the agreement) to accommodate to the spending needs of the new activity.The new building, which will not be visible from Avenida de Italia, will be built 'as an isolated volume and in an architectural style that maintains the uniform relationship and matches the image of the original building.After the relocation of the old station, which took place more than a year ago, this project will also create a backside to the newly built park.The project has two goals: saving historical heritage and meeting future healthcare needs. With this initiative, the city is restoring one of its historic buildings, which has been vacant and unused for more than 15 years.
Museo De Huelva
The Huelva Museum is located on Alameda Sundheim, one of the city's most iconic avenues. It was a residence of the high bourgeoisie in the first decades of the 20th century. Opened in 1973, the museum offers the city a cultural space showcasing archaeological finds from the Huelva area from prehistory to the last 20th century, such as works by Daniel Vázquez Díaz and José Caballero.The building itself of the museum was designed by the Sevillian architect Lorenzo Martín Nieto, who also restored the Chapel of San Pedro and the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs of Aracena. It is an architectural design with Mudejar details.The museum consists of three floors and a basement divided into two main parts: Archeology and Fine Arts.The most visited and well-known room of the museum is the permanent archaeological room, where archaeological finds from the Paleolithic and Neolithic to the finds of Cabezo de La Joya and Cabezo de San Pedro are displayed in well-differentiated chronological blocks.In this room, the Tartesian sites entitled 'Tartessos, from myth to reality' are a tour of Tartesian Andalusia and other contemporary civilizations, which also arose on the Spanish coasts, such as the Phoenician and Greek. On this ground floor is the Roman NORIA DE RIO TINTO, which opens a new archaeological period in the museum.On the first floor are the exhibition rooms for Fine Arts, including the permanent exhibition space with works from the 13th century to works from 1992, both in sculpture and painting.
The Rio Tinto Company Dock & Riverside redevelopment
The Rio Tinto Company DockThe Rio Tinto Company Dock is one of the heritage landmarks of the city of Huelva. From its construction in 1874 to its closure in 1975, with its hundred years of history, it is a masterpiece of engineering from the last quarter of the 19th century. The mineral unloading dock, property of the Riotinto Mines Company, was rehabilitated in 2007 for the use and enjoyment of citizens. It has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.What was it built for?It is conceived to provide an outlet for the mineral extracted in the mines in the north of the province of Huelva acquired by foreign companies in the mid-19th century. It marked the completion of the complex system devised by the English to transport mineral from the mines to Huelva, via the railway and culminating in the dock that allowed the loading and unloading of mining material on docked ships.Photos @ALBERTO DOMÍNGUEZ
Mercado del Carmen
architect Mercado del Carmen - architect : Joaquín Aramburu Maqua van Árgola ArquitectosThe free-standing nature of the building site, its central location near the city's old quarter and the new "Ensanche Sur" (South urban expansion area) allow for the construction of four façades of similar sizes that will lend the appropriate urban appearance to the facility.Each one of these façades plays a differentiated role. Three have accesses open to the public; only the fourth lacks them. The roofs and the canopy, clearly visible from the built-up environment, comprise a fifth "façade".The two volumes have an imposing presence capable of creating a landmark of great formal impact. The sales space is conceived as a spacious covered courtyard open to the outside.The singular roof of the market ties in with the eight-story parking facility volume which, on that side, displays a large abstract mural of high plastic effectiveness. The north side of this second body, which faces the old city, is conceived as the main façade.
Kiosko bar jardines del Muelle
The kiosk bar (ca. 1937) of the Jardines del Muelle, originally called 'Las Palmeras', is a work designed by the architect Francisco Sedano Arce, although at one point the authorship was attributed to architect José María Pérez Carasa in the inventory of interesting buildings of the city of Huelva.However, it is clear that it is a work by Francisco Sedano Arce, as Lourdes de la Villa Márquez well documents in her dissertation on the architect. Returning to the kiosk of Jardines del Muelle: "its value lies in the fact that it is a design that belongs to the modern movement."A report from the council states that "it requires actions to improve the architecture, eliminating additions that obstruct the view of the building in all its dimensions", recognizing a "poor" state of conservation. The original plans show the design of architect Francisco Sedano Arce and a later renovation proposed by architect Ricardo Anadón in 1969 that was not carried out.
Pavilions for Port Services
Pavilions for Port Services. APH - Architect: Francisco Sedano Arce (1941 - 1942)The building consists of two symmetrical and free-standing blocks that mark the access to the port of Huelva. The structure is made up of a double bay of load-bearing walls, combined with a row of concrete pillars. The floor plan distribution is also quite conventional, with a covered porch prior to access to the central staircase, from which the different offices are arranged in a linear succession.It is because of their rich volumetric play that these two pieces are characterized externally. In this sense, to the incomings and outgoings caused by the setbacks of the different façade planes, we must add the alternation of heights that occurs between the one-, two-, and three-story areas. The result is a lively play of volumes, where the semi-cylindrical shape of the corner and the deep shadows generated by the access porch stand out.The rigor with which the architect enhances this volumetry, reinforced by horizontal bands of brick where the different windows of the building are fitted, finally manages to provide the whole with a unitary and sober image that recalls some examples of European rationalist architecture.@Angel Lopez Macias
Muelle de Levante en el puerto
Redevelopment of the Levante Pier areaThe start of the urban renewal works is scheduled for 2024 and at the same time the concessions for the construction and operation of the planned buildings will be put out to tender.This will be the new Levante Pier which, as a new district, will connect the city with the estuaryAccording to plans, the redevelopment of the Levante dock will take place in 2026 and the large planned tower, which will become an icon - in 33 floors - for the area, in 2030. The urban development will be completed at the end of 2025, beginning of 2026. The companies that have won the contract for the renovation of the Levante Dock by drawing up an urbanization and renovation project for the Levante Pier are Ayesa and JZGP. This concerns the urban planning of a one kilometer strip from the city to the estuary, an area of 80,000 square meters.During this renovation process, construction of the Odiel Sports Marina has already started. The first phase of this action will be operational between 2024 and 2025. This nautical, commercial and leisure complex will have 400 moorings for boats.For the implementation of this project, the Port of Huelva estimates an investment of more than 20 million euros, to which will be added the investments of various operators for the construction and operation of the buildings. The public-private investments could amount to more than 150 million euros.The project will unite the port and the city, "it will be a pleasant port space to work, walk, exercise, enjoy, it will attract employment, wealth and opportunity." An underground parking garage with a capacity of more than 500 vehicles is proposed. The aim is for the space to become 'a first-class tourist offering'.In addition to the Odiel Sports Marina, the Levante Pier will be filled with the 'Museum of America', health, catering and training buildings, shops, a cruise terminal, green areas and a 33-storey tower, which will become the icon of the city .Watch the video for an impression of future developments.
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