Prevision Espanola
Seville, Spain · 1988
Photo · Photo by Lluis Casals
A precedent for integrating monumental typography and classical loggia proportions into a modern brick and stone facade, demonstrating a refined balance of solid masonry and deep voids.
- What we like about this project
- The delicate bronze lettering 'PREVISION' and 'ESPANOL' integrated directly into the stone and brick bands.
Materials
- brick
- marble
- stone
- bronze
- slate
- metal-grille
Visual identifiers
- loggia
- brick-facade
- monumental-lettering
- slender-columns
- horizontal-banding
Style tags
- postmodern
- rationalist
- neo-classical-influence
Visual tags
- postmodernism
- rationalism
- civic-architecture
- layered-facade
- classical-proportion
- Geometry
- Strictly horizontal bands of brickwork, marble spandrels, and open loggias. The facade is organized in clear horizontal registers with a repeating rhythm of slender columns and thick brick piers.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick and stone cladding with integrated loggias and recessed window walls.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick and stone masonry envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or corporate building scale with monumental lettering integrated into the architecture.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting sharp shadows from the columns, railings, and roof overhang onto the recessed glazing and loggia spaces.
- Atmosphere
- Stately and civic, defined by the contrast of warm brick, white marble, and deep shadowed loggias.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with a clear view of the upper facade levels against a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The deep loggias create a layered transition between the exterior street and the interior, casting deep shadows that give the facade depth and relief.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating bands of solid, horizontally-grooved brickwork and open, colonnaded galleries.
- Style reading
- Postmodern Rationalism
- Program
- Office or institutional headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, marble, stone, bronze, slate, metal-grille
- Visual identifiers
- loggia, brick-facade, monumental-lettering, slender-columns, horizontal-banding
- Style tags
- postmodern, rationalist, neo-classical-influence
- Visual tags
- postmodernism, rationalism, civic-architecture, layered-facade, classical-proportion
- Geometry
- Strictly horizontal bands of brickwork, marble spandrels, and open loggias. The facade is organized in clear horizontal registers with a repeating rhythm of slender columns and thick brick piers.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick and stone cladding with integrated loggias and recessed window walls.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick and stone masonry envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or corporate building scale with monumental lettering integrated into the architecture.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting sharp shadows from the columns, railings, and roof overhang onto the recessed glazing and loggia spaces.
- Atmosphere
- Stately and civic, defined by the contrast of warm brick, white marble, and deep shadowed loggias.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with a clear view of the upper facade levels against a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The deep loggias create a layered transition between the exterior street and the interior, casting deep shadows that give the facade depth and relief.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating bands of solid, horizontally-grooved brickwork and open, colonnaded galleries.
- Style reading
- Postmodern Rationalism
- Program
- Office or institutional headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture