1771. Bruxelles Radio-diffusion Nationale Belge

Querida Ester,

Esta es una tarjeta postal contemporanea de la estructura
mostrada: El Institituto Nacional de Radiodifusión de
Ixelles. El diseño del edificio muestra claras influencias
de la arquitectura holandesa de Berlage y de la alemana
expresionista de Mendelsohn. Los interiores con
maravillosos acabados y detalles están desarrollados en estilo
Art Decó.

R

1770. Lakeuden Risti. Seinäjoki

Querido Louis,

Esta es la iglesia Lakeuden Ristin kirkko construida por Aalto y
que se podría traducir al español con un nombre tan poético como
Iglesia de la Cruz de las Planicies. Su gran cruz de casi 70 metros
de altura sobre la gran extensión rural y plana sobre la que se
asentaba Seinäjoki explica sin embargo su nombre mucho más
prosaicamente. Parece que Aalto entendió bien el espíritu de este
lugar ya que Seinäjoki creció entorno a algunos cruces importantes
de ferrocarril.  Una gran Cruz en el aire para otras grandes cruces
surcadas en la tierra.

Besos,
R

1769. Palacio de los Deportes, Santander, Cantabria

Querido Sergio,

Cuánto medía el pulpo negro
Que oscureció la paz del día?
Eran de hierro sus ramales
Y de fuego muerto sus ojos?
Y la ballena tricolor
Por qué me atajó en el camino?

Pablo Neruda

R

1768. Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

Querido Arkhe,

"La belleza en arquitectura es la armonía entre el propósito y
la belleza" (Alvar Aalto)

Besos a todos,
R

1767. Zonnestraal

Dear Patrik,

"In hospital people should be able to have time to themselves"
(Zaha Hadid)

Sincerely,
R

1766. Denver International Airport

Dear Ken,

"We took all the mechanicals off the roof. This freed us to
create a superlight cutting-edge structure, a canopy saturated
with light. In doing so, it saved the airport thousands of tons
of steel and reduced the construction schedule by nine months.”
(Curtis Fentress)

Respectfully,
R

1765. Marseille Unite d'habitation

Dear David,

"This is the first manifestation of an environment suited to modern
life" (Le Corbusier)

Sincerely,
R

1764. La Coruña. Vista aérea. Plaza María Pita, Palacio Municipal y Mercado de San Agustín

Querida Cristina

Una vista aérea de La Coruña en donde se puede ver en la parte
superior izquierda la estructura de arcos parabólicos del Mercado
de San Agustín. Esta obra está inspirada en edificios
centroeuropeos modernos de la épocas y especialmente en Les
Halles Centrales de Reims de Eugène Freyssinet.

Besos,
R

1763. Södersjukhuset, Stockholm South General Hospital.

Dear Michael,

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a
desire to change his bed" (Charles Baudelaire)

Regards,
R

1762. Hotel Xenia, interior, Poros.

Dear Ada,

"If nature were snug, humans wouldn't have created architecture"
(Aris Konstantinidis)

Truly,
R

1761. Idrætshøjskolen Aarhus

Dear Walter,

"Ability is what you are capable of doing. motivation determines
what you do, and attitude determines how well you do it."
(Lou Holtz)

Sincerely,
R

1760. Helsinki Taidehalli (Art Gallery)

Dear Louise,

"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" (Pablo Picasso)

Best,
R

1759. Löwenberg i. Schl. Rathaus

Dear Deborah,

"Through art man places himself outside nature, with technics
he places himself inside nature" (Hans Poelzig)

The Löwenberg city hall was built in the XIV century,
renovated by Poelzig in 1903-1905, destroyed in 1945, and
rebuilt in 1958.

Sincerely,
R

1758. Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida, Extremadura, España

Querida Cristina,

"A mí me gusta pensar que el término arquitectura vale tanto para
la prosa como para la poesía" (Rafael Moneo)

Besos,
R

1757. Cultural Education Center, Albany, N.Y.

Dear Raymond,

"Architecture is the biggest unwritten document of history"
(Daniel Libeskind)

Sincerely,
R

1756. Sporvejsmuseet skjoldenæsholm, Århus, DK

Dear Mark,

"If a building becomes architecture then it is art"
(Arne Jacobsen)

Best regards,
R

1755. Bat'ovany Partizánske, Slovakia

Dear Henrieta,

The industrial and housing garden city in Bat'ovany was the last
BATA company development built by architect and urban designer
Jirí Voženílek before WWII. The center of the city is dominated by
a large catholic church that can be seen to the right and was
designed by another great architect: Vladimír Karfík.

Respectfully,
R

1754. Kouvola, Uimahalli

Querido Juan,

La piscina municipal cubierta de Kouvola fue diseñada e iniciada
por Jorma Järvi hasta que este murió en 1962. Continuó su labor
hasta la finalización de las obras Erkki Heloma. Järvi fué también
el arquitecto de la piscina del estadio de Helsinki y uno de los que
diseñó la sede central de correos y comunicaciones en la capital
finesa.

Con afecto,
R

1753. Hotel de Mar, Palma de Mallorca, España

Querida Cristina,

"En los caminos diversos que sigue cada arquitecto consciente
tiene que haber algo común, algo que debe estar en todos nosotros"
(José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat)

Besos,
R

1752. Edificio Atalaya, Barcelona, España

Querida Angeles,

"Solamente puedes enseñar aquello en lo que creas profundamente,
lo que no tienes asumido, no se transmite" (Federico Correa)

Afectuosamente,
R

1751. The Hiroshima Prefectural Office

Dear Koji,

Modern architecture in Japan demands some visits to this country.
The Hiroshima office building, with its serene and clean
composition is a good example of it.

Best regards.
R

1750. Republique Rwandaise. Monastere de Gihindamuyaga

Dear Lucio,

"What we have been doing for years is to ask people to help us
organize their landscape. We are the architects and I don’t want
to escape from that responsibility of being or deciding, but I do
not want to decide alone" (Lucien Kroll)

Sincerely,
R

1749. Dakar. Le Palais du Grand Conseil

Dear Jean,

"If the eyes do not admire, the heart will not desire"
(Senegalese proverb)

Sincerely,
R

1748. Hotel Las Salinas Costa Teguise Lanzarote

Querida Lola,

"El arte no es un problema de inspiración sino de transpiración"
(Fernando Higueras)

Agradecido,
R

1747. Hôtel de Ville de Yaoundé. Cameroun

Cristina,

Yaundé es la capital de Camerún. Es también la segunda ciudad
más poblada del país después de Duala. Fue fundada por
comerciantes alemanes en 1888 como centro para el comercio de
marfil.
Su ayuntamiento, diseñado por el arquitecto francés Armand
Salomon, me recuerda tristemente, con sus expresivos pilares, una
pila de colmillos de elefantes.

Besos,
R

1746. Bacardi Rum Plant, Cataño, Puerto Rico

Querido Félix,

"Lo que a todo ser humano le gustaría es ser completamente libre
para dar salida a lo que lleva dentro, a cada capacidad que se posee,
a cada talento" (Jørn Utzon)

Siempre agradecido,
R

1745. Palacio de Festivales, Santander, Cantabria

Querido Paco,

"La arquitectura debe ser hermosa aunque no funcione; capaz de
conmover aunque tenga goteras" (Francisco J. Saenz de Oiza)

Un abrazo,
R

1744. Copenhagen. Bellevue Bathing Beach

Dear Kjeld,

This is a vintage postcard featuring one of the two curved kiosks
sided with sheet metal decorated with colorful advertisings Arne
Jacobsen designed at Bellevue bathing beach.

Sincerely,
R

1743. Stockholmutställningen 1930 Parkrestauranten

Dear Peter,

"Asplund found a direct path to nature and its world of forms"
(Alvar Aalto)

Sincerely,
R

1742. Equitable Building, Chicago

Dear John,

“Natalie de Blois and Gordon Bunshaft were a team, he took all the
credit and she did all the work.” (Beverly Willis)

Sincerely,
R

1741. Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux

Dear Jean,

"The building's purity and geometrical clarity inspires a sense
of monumentality and gracefulness."(Herzog & de Meuron)

Regards,
R

1740. Lord's Cricket Ground. Media Center

Dear Ryan,

The Media Center was built by a shipyard in Cornwall and when
finished in 1999 was the first all aluminium building of the world.
The leader designer was Czech architect Jan Kaplický.

Regards,
R

1739. Sarajevo Nova željeznička stanica

Dear Miljenko,

The new Railway Station of Sarajevo was designed by architects
from Czechoslovakia and East Germany and finished by Croatian
and Bosnian architects. Works started in 1947 and ends in 1953.
The station was declared National Monument in 2018.

Respectfully,
R

1738. Malmo Stadsteater. Salongen

Dear Ingrid,

"We are invited into the dark. Enveloped in the heart of darkness
that calls on all the senses to measure its limits, we are compelled
to pause." (Sigurd Lewerentz)

Respectful,
R

1737. Roosevelt (former Jai Alai) Club, Manila

Dear María Lourdes,

At the vacant lot where today is the controversial Torre de Manila
it used to stand the Roosevelt Club, former Jai Alai that you may
remember have seen or even visited.
This wonderful Streamline Moderne landmark was sadly
demolished in 2000 but it is still remembered by many.

Warm regards,
R

1736. Haludovo Palace Hotel, Krk, Malinska, Croatia

Dear Josip,

"You have to feel, experience and understand the space's spirit
in which you create." (Boris Magaš)

Sincerely,
R

1735. JAT skyscraper, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dear Jan,

The top four floors of the old JAT (Yugoslavian Airlines) building
are today occupied by the hotel Hecco Deluxe.
The building is the first high-rise built in Sarajevo and it is not a
coincide that its shape resembles the one of a traditional air traffic
control tower.

Best,
R

1734. Varkauden Kirkko

Dear Erkki,

The parish church of Varkaus is one of the most significant
Finnish churches of the functionalist period. The typical
bold industrial silo structure is combined here with the more
traditional freestanding campanile with natural stone insets
in the base of it.

Sincerely,
R