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El edificio es el histórico Mercat Vell, edificio modernista construido en el 1890 por el arquitecto Gaietà Buigas. Es un centro de visitas donde se explica la relación entre la marca Bacardí y Sitges ya que Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, su fundador nació aquí.
This camera came attached to a Bottle of Bacardi on the island of Cyprus, about 15 years ago. Taken by Brian Nicholls, posted in a story on 35mmc and used with permission.
Strand Anse Source d'Argent mit ausgewaschenen Felsformationen auf der Insel La Digue (Seychellen), an dem Bacardi- und Raffaello-Spots gedreht wurden.
The Bacardi Building was designed to be the headquarters for the Bacardi Rum Company; it was nationalized by the Castro government in the early 1960s. In 2001, the building was restored by an Italian construction firm. The interior retains the original decorations in marble and granite. It is regarded as one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Latin America.
The building was the outcome of an architectural design competition. The owners of the Bacardi company invited a number of architects to present their design proposals for a new headquarters building offering 1,000 pesos to the winner. The competition was made up of a panel of judges that included Henri Schueg Chassin, president of Bacardi, and the architects Leonardo Morales y Pedroso, the architect for Colegio Belen, Enrique Gil, Emilio de Soto, and Pedro Martínez Inclán. The first prize was awarded to architects Esteban Rodríguez-Castells and Rafael Fernández Ruenes. José Menéndez Menéndez was the architect-engineer in the project.
Construction of the building started on January 6, 1930, and was completed by the 300-day deadline the company had set for December. Poor conditions of the land required that the foundation use piles of hardwood (jiqui and júcaro negro) and high strength concrete. At the peak of the building (47m) is a bronze sculpture of the fruit bat company logo. Its design gives the building a unique chromatic effect and a decorative element of Catalan modernism. At the brim of the building are inflected flat panel sculptures of sirens.
Bacardi Building, first floor
The first floor contained a bar with column archways where patrons of the restaurant in the mezzanine area could overlook the bar while they dined. It was open to the public and known to have many celebrities who frequented. Most of the marble and granite was imported from Europe: Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France, Belgium and Hungary.
With an area of 1,075 sq. meters and 7.25 meters of support, the first floor walls, floor and ceiling are adorned in pink granite from Bavaria, and the two halls are of green marble from floor to ceiling. The construction work was carried out by the company Grasyma of Wansiedel, Bavaria of Germany, which took great care in the fine details of the work and the time sensitivity of the project deadline.
The property has a cistern with capacity for 8,700 gallons of water, which pumped into a tank inside the tower with capacity for 4,800 gallons. In addition, it consists of four elevators for different uses: two are used for passengers with capacity of 10 people each and a speed of 350 feet per minute; another is a cargo elevator for the transportation of furniture, with a capacity of 4,000 pounds; and the fourth one makes trips between the basement and the first floor to transport goods.
Construction was completed in December 1930 and at the time it was the tallest building in Havana.
Text courtesy of Wikipedia.
The distinctive blue-and-white Bacardi Building, which rose from Miami’s skyline has long been a landmark, with its modernist architecture and prominent location on Biscayne Boulevard. The eight story tower was built in 1963 by Cuban-born architect Enrique Gutierrez. The blue-and-white tile murals of flowers, by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand, adorn the full height of the tower’s north and south flanks, in contrast to the minimalist, tinted glass of the east and west facades. The second building, behind the tower, is a square, two-story annex built in 1972, balanced atop a small orange cube and suspended 47 feet above the plaza that separates it from the tower. Its four walls are translucent slabs of concrete and stained glass that tell, in abstract form, the story of sugar cane’s transformation into rum. Now the home of the National YoungArts Foundation, the complex also remains a symbol of triumph over adversity by Miami’s Cuban exiles. The Bacardi Company’s assets were seized by Cuba’s Castro government but the company repositioned itself as a multinational corporation.
44211 and 4520 cross Gradys Creek Road between Mount Lion and The Risk with 6L62 'Bacardi Express' to Sydney.
"Commissioned by Bacardi, and completed in 1975, the Jewel Box is a rare example of Miami Modern architecture.
Designed by Igancio Carrera-Justiz, the Jewel Box hovers forty-seven feet above ground on Biscayne Boulevard. The colorful glass mosaic walls on all four sides of the building are based on designs by German artist Johannes Dietz. Each side depicts the rum-making process: how stalks of sugar cane are converted into molasses.
Its vibrant glamor and vivid extravagance is highlighted during the morning sun, and emphasized at night with strong, hot ceiling lights." Aimee Rubensteen