Can Jorba
Building that, in itself, determines a strategic position in the city center and in the place that marks the boundary between the old walls and the new consolidated fabric around Passeig and the Vic road. In its origins, the space served the function of commercial galleries; currently, it is dedicated to tertiary use and, on its lower floors, to commercial space.
Tipology/Elements
Building occupying a corner of one of the city’s main avenues. Its facades are very beautiful and are extensively decorated with highly stylized vegetal motifs distributed rhythmically across the entire surface. The part where the side facades converge is what could be called the main facade, of quite reduced dimensions, which is equally decorated and also crowned by a structure that perhaps completes all the decoration: a kind of pinnacles. The glass in all the openings is frosted, very much in keeping with the decoration, and in some of them the decoration continues thanks to its combination with iron. On the ground floor there is a vestibule. The reinforced concrete structure is very remarkable and was one of the first built in Manresa.
Authorship
Arnau Calvet, architect.
