bonin building built 1910 the city vigo architect jenaro fuente rodr guez

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Bonin Building built in 1910 in the city of Vigo by the architect Jenaro de la Fuente RodrÃguez.

It is one of the author's main works in the city that has been preserved in its entirety. It is eclectic in style and consists of a ground floor and three storeys. The two faÃ§ades of the building are connected by a circular chamfer of great decorative profusion, with the semicircular arches supported by classicist columns that overlap the window frames, each with a balcony framed by bolstered pilasters. On the second floor, there are freely designed capitals in which the letters M and A appear linked, the initials of the owners: Manuel RodrÃguez RodrÃguez and Angelina BonÃn.The faÃ§ades are arranged symmetrically through a central towered pavilion and two lateral ones that frame the intermediate sections, although only a part of the faÃ§ade on Oporto Street was built.The ornamentation is of an ornate Baroque style there is not a single gap in the entire faÃ§ade without decoration.As is characteristic of this style, the plants are distinguished by a change in the ornamentation of each one of them, false keystones appear, filigrees in the threads of the arches, masks with monstrous faces, garlands, etc.