Milena Velba Vs. Miosotis

biting my fingernails I'm going for popcorn ... now I ...

For over a year I started my career as a "blogger". In my first article wrote about what was going to try on the blog, while the second, published as of February 5, wrote about the military government and Telefónica Building. Today I'm going to do on the building located between these two, ie, the Cine Ideal.

This is a building constructed between 1924 and 1926 , and its author Juan Vicente Santafé y Arellano, author also of Alicantino Recreation. It had a capacity of more than 1500 people, located on two floors, and was closed in 2003.

extracted from the book Image Alicante Emblematic Buildings (M. Martínez López, 2001)

Today it is a faithful reflection of what happens in cities where the population abandons the traditional core to crowd in suburban malls. Currently there is only one cinema in town, the film Navas (1976-1980), located on the street of the same name.

Balsalobre María Juana Garcia writes this in the magazine Salt 10: Cine Ideal, at large outdoor shows his great size, which involved the windows with double function, decorative and natural ventilation of the building. This set of shapes and sizes of the holes is another resource Santafé decorative uses by not having to create a hierarchy inside. The architectural canvas Artillery Street stands out in a clear symmetry that does not have the main facade. this is ordered from an axis Compositi vo controller, which solves Santafé using the rectangle and points out the verticality of its elements, raising the front and playing with the narrow dimensions of the street. Meanwhile, in the main front doors and include decorative items that fit. Have their functional importance, such as access, and especially its sides for advertising media, programs, schedules, posters and premieres. Regarding the use of dimensions in the vertical, Santafé seems to finish off the balustrade way, with small forwards that are lightened molded and breaking the cutting edge vision for the corner. The protruding solid way pseudopilastras framed visual effectiveness settled decorated with garlands and schematic bands that emphasize the elements of the facade. (Image 2: Image from: Alicante. Know your city -2006 -)

In this same publication Jose Bauza tells us that the Ideal new ground in imitation of North America: Half film, the projection is interrupted and an elegant and harmonious sounds of gong strike. Side of the stage, there are two heavy blood-red curtains that come bull to hide the screen while the lights. At the foot of the stage, I get a "crooner" or melodic singer. It is none other than Catalan Enrique Corts. He wears a white jacket and wearing a cross hair cut very carefully, with a stripe on one side and straight hair, black, with hints of ironing brillatina. With a good tenor voice, and imposts well, sings "Tarde Gris" and gets the audience in his pocket. Has been accompanied by impeccable without being obtrusive, a instrumental trio. The piano master Horace Round, with his glasses, have not missed a single note of the score. Back to my great friend bass Pascual, large round sound. And, on drums, Don Ramiro Dapena, also known in cafes as a champion of rapid games of chess. In that same article attempts to bring Joseph Bauzá us what was for him a "time."

When one reads these lines will realize that these lines have been lost in the street to enter the cinema or to get tickets ... queues that have thankfully been replaced by cars, which has sought a commercial. The fact that the company would convert the property into a parking clashes with the "Special Plan of Protection and Preservation of Traditional Center" , which in Article 24 (according to the report in the Metro newspaper on 22 February 2007-nearly a year ago-) makes clear that "not allowing the deployment of car use in listed buildings." Under this plan the property appears partial protection, with the elements to keep the two facades of the Constitution Avenue and Artillery Street.

Film ideal in February 2007

So I went out for popcorn and still have not returned ... 'm hoping to stop singing D. Enrique Corts is completed or the rest of this long film and that lasts too ... although the second part of the film to become library, archives, theater ...

do that building belongs to this photo? This is again very easy ...

Greetings!