Cuba - 2020

Last images of the abandoned Art School in La Habana - Cuba for more details visit former images

After a renovation in the last couple of years the balconies are out of order, the handrails are gone.

opened in Dec 1957

The Havana Riviera is a historic resort hotel located on the Malecón waterfront boulevard in the Vedado district of Havana. The hotel was built in 1957 and still maintains its original 1950s style. It has twenty-one floors containing 352 rooms. The Havana Riviera was originally owned by mobster Meyer Lansky who had been inspired to build it after visiting his friend, Moe Dalitz's nine-storey Riviera Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It was intended to rival the comfort and contemporary luxury of any Las Vegas hotel of the era. The choice to build in Havana was because Lansky simply did not want to be subject to U.S. laws or the scrutiny of the FBI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Habana_Riviera A Ford model A (around 1930) can be seen in the foreground.

The Meliá Cohiba Hotel is a high-rise hotel opened in 1994, located in the Vedado district of Havana, just off the Malecón and next to the historic Hotel Habana Riviera.

Edificio Girón is a seafront apartment building, located in the Vedado district. It was opened in 1967, the year that Che Guevara died, and a decade that saw Cuba settle from revolutionary fervour into a socialist republic. The Girón building was formed from two 17-storey blocks, fitted with elevators and with a series of tubular walkways that join the two hemispheres like neural fibres. It is also called the ‚Experimental Building‘, because the first time in Cuba a sliding formwork was used. Some call this kind of architecture 'brutalism' ;-) The years haven’t been kind to the Edificio Girón, nevertheless it's still fully inhabited. I posted some photos from outside years ago, but this time we explored the building and the views from up there. See the following small series. For some details about Havana architecture read this, Edificio Girón is also described here. www.thebohemianblog.com/2016/05/climbing-all-over-the-massive-modernist-architecture-of-cuba.html

for more information go to www.ipernity.com/doc/berny/50471374

One of the futuristic tubular walkways that join the two towers like neural fibres. The view from the slots to the sea and to the city is awesome. Click on the keyword 'Giron' for more images.

Parts of the staircase are badly damaged, as the PiP's show.