However, one or two hundred years ago, where did the tide of arcade construction along the South Pacific Ocean come from? I thought of Magellan.
Arcade this kind of building is designed to adapt to tropical coastal areas.
Haikou arcade is light and single in color, mainly in white tone, showing a relatively introverted golden mean and the Taoist spirit and elegant connotation of Haikou people.
This proves that the arcade was built by the Spanish.
After asking, I learned that this is a block with a history of 400 years.
I found that the Arabic corridor is very similar to the arcade style in Alhambra Palace.
After the Bahamas, the Spanish discovered Cuba.
I guess Havana arcade is the ancestor of the world arcade.
The arcade has gone through many vicissitudes, and its structure has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, but the decoration on the facade is ever-changing and colorful.
Arcades and other European buildings have become the beautiful scenery of Havana.
Don’t let us misunderstand it.
With more than 400 years of city building history, Havana has become a typical Spanish city, in which Havana’s arcade is located.
Therefore, in the pedigree of World Architecture, arcades are ignored.
Then the Spaniards built a city and camped in Cebu.
I even found arcades in a small city in Morocco.
Havana not only built a solid military castle, but also carried out the construction of commercial blocks in the urban area.
Arcades can be found in Guangzhou, Foshan, Shunde, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jieyang, Beihai, Wuzhou and Hepu in China, as well as Haikou, Puqian and Baimajing in Hainan.
Arcades are not only the product of the era of great navigation, but also the product of colonial architecture.
Did the Spaniards create arcade architecture inspired by it? If so, the source of arcade architecture should be 5 related to the Enlightenment of Arab architecture.
It is certain that the arcade building was built by the Spanish.
Baroque and neoclassical art were widely used on the facade of the arcade, which was endowed with multicultural significance, including Europe, Arabia and later China.
Haikou arcade is basically a square column, which is simple and practical.
Magellan sailed all over the world to Cebu, the Philippines.
For 400 years, it has been silently waiting for us to find our roots and ask our ancestors.
Where it comes from and whose creativity it comes from have always been my doubts.
The facade of Havana arcade more reflects the artistic style of the European Renaissance, and Baroque, Rococo and neoclassicism are popular..
The appearance of arcades in the ancient city of Havana completely subverts this statement.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see any arcade buildings in Barcelona, Seville and Madrid.
WOW! Havana, Cuba also has beautiful arcades and colorful arcade streets, which makes me seem to wander along the Zhongshan Road in Haikou.
The columns of Havana arcade have various forms, including square, round and roman columns.
Because the world has not found an arcade longer than Havana.
In my opinion, the arcade comes from the creativity of the Spanish, but it is mixed with a variety of architectural art styles.
There is no shortage of experts in architectural design in Spain, such as architects like Gaudi.
This is the state of market life, which is very suitable for ordinary commercial life and the initial development of the city.
Although the two cities face each other across the ocean, they are related to the construction of the city after the arrival of the Spanish fleet of Columbus and Magellan.
So I retraced the origin of the arcade and tried to find an explanation for the marvelous architecture of the arcade.
After Cebu in Havana, arcades appeared.
The arcade came into being.
Because there have also been Arab arch and colonnade buildings in the arcade, not to mention that Spain has been occupied by Arabs for hundreds of years, Spaniards must also be baptized by Arab culture in architectural art.
As the edge of the sea, due to the accumulation of water vapor and abundant rain, coupled with the impact of tropical weather and cyclones, a building that can shade, block rain and shelter from the wind is needed to ensure people’s daily life.
Architecture is also a human ecological form, which can be used for business and residence.
The arcade wind in Southeast Asia blew to Xinma, and then to the southeast coast of China.
Art is interlinked, but also interrelated and influential.
The name of arcade is what we Chinese call it.
Perhaps, in Spanish eyes, arcades are not called arcades at all.
Havana arcade is rich in color, red, yellow and blue complement each other, reflecting the strong, unrestrained and romantic character of ancient Ba people, which has a great relationship with the influence of Latin culture.
Author: mast reading: Yun Dayu walked in the ancient city of Havana.
When he saw it, he was surprised.
It is a compact neighborhood life form.
Because he was born in the arcade, he was born with a complex.
In the era of great navigation, the Renaissance, retro architecture and new thinking prevailed.
The arcade, in my mind, is so magical.
Turning to history, Columbus arrived in the Caribbean more than 500 years ago.
Everywhere he went, he was curious to understand.
Inadvertently, he found the arcade.
Perhaps it was the Spanish who copied the arcade building in Havana to Cebu.
It can be said that on my way around the world, I found many arcades, such as Singapore, Malacca, Cebu, Saigon, hue and other cities.
When we talked excitedly about the arcade as a Nanyang architecture, we all thought it was invented by the British and spread from India to Southeast Asia through South Asia.
It is not surprising that Havana and Cebu, both Spanish colonial cities, have the same arcade buildings.
Arcades, in their eyes, may be a piece of cake, not worth mentioning.
Cuba is the first bridgehead for the Spanish to colonize America.
