Cumaná, Multinational Insurance Building

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Architecture is really about well-being . I think people want to feel good in a space...On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Zaha Hadid

Hello community lovers of wonderful designs and architecture, it is a pleasure to be with you again to share with you a beautiful design that is located in my city.
It is a very striking building for its appearance and color with several commercial offices that is located in the center of the city.
It is worth mentioning that the location of this building was very strategic for being close to many commercial establishments specifically in the area of fishing (as near the place is a fishing port), plus many people who live near there are dedicated to the work of fishing.

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This building besides being very well preserved and with an extraordinary view was well known because it was a very well known service provider in my region which was called multinational insurance, it is worth mentioning that it had a range of offers to people interested in being part of this service catalog, among the services that could be chosen was life insurance, also health insurance that covered hospitalization, maternity and surgery (HCM), plus car insurance. Personally, one of the things that I miss the most with great nostalgia and which came to my mind at this very moment when writing these lines is the health insurance because it is currently very expensive and our economic situation in the country is critical to cover this expense.

Something that caught my attention and seems very beautiful in addition to its design is the very striking color that it has, that is, all the walls of the building are covered with bricks 🧱 , these with a bright appearance that I think are cleaned as is customary in my town (Cumana) with wood dust or gasoli to give it that wonderful appearance.

On the front of the building there are two metal grilles in vertical form and two rectangular grilles, and on the sides of the building there are also grilles with similar designs. In addition it has in the whole front of the building in the superior part of the entrance door a quite big space with blocks of ventilation in form of square. Something very peculiar of this building are the columns that it has which have vertical form, for me it is very curious to observe that in the space that there is between two columns they placed grills. It also has windows in the shape of a rectangle and ventilation blocks on the right side of the main door.

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This building 🏛️ has one floor, the roof and the most extraordinary thing is a column that is in one of its corners, having the peculiar shape of a cylinder. I mention that the design of this building helped me to review geometric figures with my child.

Space is meaningless without light. A building speaks through the silence of perception orchestrated by light." Steven Holl

I pray that you are prosperous and have abundant health to continue in pursuit of the materialization of your dreams.
Blessings

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                  All images are my own, dividers courtesy of @kattycrochet.

                                                           
             Todas las imágenes son de mi autoría, divisores cortesía de @kattycrochet.