Barcelona, the national palace, the towers

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Barcelona, the national palace, the towers

The national palace call it is built for the universal exposition of 1929 as more or less ephemeral building, with modest materials and without claims of giving you an use to long term. The project went of Eugenio Pedro Cendoya, Enric Catà and Pere Domènech Roura i.It explains that it were beginning to accuse deficiencies as for consistency, that require important any time adapted works as seat of the MNAC.Your architectural style can be defined of eclectic or of |historicista| |revival| according to the taste it predominated in the time, specially in edifications with commemorative and grandiloquent end. They combined to him elements of the rebirth and of the baroque thing in order to try to combine the more typical and recognizable of Spain with the classicism that it was norm in public buildings. Would that, the central dome can remember to the basilica of saint Pedro of the Vatican and to the cathedral of saint Paul of London, while that the lateral towers are almost traced of the Seville weathercock. In front of these vertical elements of certain harmony and lightness, the body of the building results solid, with form of Spain's mail and without scarcely windows, which gives you an effect of certain heaviness.

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