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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish] |
The Capitol Building, also known as a former Edficio Carrion is on the corner with Gran Via street Jacometrezo. It was designed in 1931 by the architects Luis Martínez-Ruiz and Feduchi Vicente Eced Eced based in New York skyscrapers as well as German Expressionism,
Capitoly building built between the years 1931 and 1933, and its promoter Ignacio Carrión, Marquess of Melina. The developer designed a custom made by different architects among them Gutiérrez Soto Cardenas Muguruza, among others, however, annulled the tender for Carrión order it directly Feduchi Martínez and Eced.
The building with 14 floors and 54 meters tall, covered in its entirety to be a building dedicated to services including hotel stay for apartments, offices, cinema, cafe, tea room and party room. In the basement, first was a party room and the second one commissary. The Capitol was a huge room with a patio seating and two mezzanines.
Among the curiosities of the building we can find who was the first building with an air-conditioning installation, whose engine room occupied as much as the movies. Moreover, the furniture of the entire building was designed by Luis Martinez-Ruiz Feduchi, one of the most brilliant episodes in the history of furniture in the twentieth century.
Was initiated in 1977 of cultural interest. Has appeared in numerous films highlighting The Day of the Beast by Álex de la Iglesia and Open your eyes. |
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- nicou
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(20871) - [2009-03-29 11:14]
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Hello,
Très beau captage de ce bâtiment, leffet de basculement est superbe, j'aim beaucoup ces bâtiment avec cette frome, superbe.
bravo et amitié
Nicou
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