Justicia Art Nouveau Architecture

The ironwork balconies on the facade of Calle de Sagasta number eleven curve outward like cages against the stone. This building was the longtime headquarters of the Hijos de Heraclio Fournier company. In the early twentieth century, the…

The corner of Calle de Francisco de Rojas and Calle de Sagasta features a heavy, dark iron gate set into a facade of intricate brickwork and stone. This residential block was built in the early twentieth century by architect Luis de…

The building at number eight Calle de Larra wears a curved, white stone facade that marks the corner of the street with sharp, clean lines. It began as the headquarters for the newspaper El Sol in nineteen twenty-seven. During the Second…

The Casa de los Lagartos in the Justicia neighborhood is marked by the three large, bronze lizards climbing the rounded corner of its facade. Built in nineteen twelve by architect Silvestre Perez Valdes, the building deviates from the…

The iron facade of the building at number one hundred four Calle de Hortaleza is painted a deep, matte blue, framing large arched windows on the ground floor. This structure once functioned as the headquarters for the Spanish Telephone…

The Longoria Palace displays an explosion of stone curves and iron vines, a dense thicket of Modernisme architecture that looks entirely out of place among the rigid stone facades of central Madrid. Built at the turn of the twentieth…

The Edificio LAMARCA rises above the street with a striking facade of horizontal steel bands and large, recessed glass panels. Originally constructed in the early twentieth century as a carriage factory for the Lamarca brothers, it served…