Bombas Gens, Old Industrial Valencia Building, Fundació Per Amor a L?Art, New Spanish Architecture
Bombas Gens Valencia
Art Deco Building Development in Eastern Spain ? design by Ramon Esteve Estudio
12 Mar 2017
Bombas Gens – Fundació Per Amor a L?Art
Architect: Ramon Esteve Estudio
Location: Valencia, Spain
Bombas Gens Valencia: Fundació Per Amor a L?Art
English text (scroll down for Spanish):
Bombas Gens is an old industrial building with an unquestionable social-historical value and one of the rare remaining examples of the industrial architecture of the thirties.
Images below © Ramon Esteve Estudio:

Its Art Deco façades and architecture make it a special, unique location for some new uses according to today?s needs.
The new facilities have been created as an internationally renowned multi-use space where Fundació Per Amor a L?Art will carry out its three-branch activity (arts, society and research).

The first images of the addition reveal a few details of a refurbishing process that is unique in Valencia.

After the restoration of the warehouses by Eduardo de Miguel, Ramón Esteve has taken over the reinvention and extension of the complex with the advice of Annabelle Selldorf, an expert in turning iconic buildings into museums.

?Our aim has always been to apply a homogeneous intervention criterion to the whole complex, and, at the same time, give each building, be it original or recently built, the characteristic features that it needs for its specifi...