Club Náutico (‘Nautical Club’) is a building in Cuba . It is in the reparto (city ward) of Náutico, Playa , Havana .
6-408: It was originally built in the 1920s and expanded in 1936 by its owner Carlos Fernández. Guests paid a modest fee (.10 cents), eventually there were more than five thousand subscribers. Fernández had in addition to the enjoyment of a short beach, a dance floor with an orchestra. By the 1950s, an increase in membership necessitated expansion of the original premises in 1953 and Max Borges Recio designed
12-547: A set of porticos covered by vaults similar to the ones he recently had designed for the Tropicana . Borges used a catenary arch, similar to those used in the Tropicana . There is a color differentiation at the Club Náutico between the blue, and smooth surface of the architectural covering of the arch and the white structure above. The arches at the Club Náutico lack the architectural and structural purity that Borges achieved at
18-841: The Club Náutico place Borges among a few modern architects of the Americas with a recognizable, original style. After 1959 his family moved to the United States, where he remained active well into the 1980s, along with his brother Enrique, designing and building many residential and commercial buildings in the Washington Metropolitan Area . He twice won the Cuban National College of Architects Award. First, for his "Medical and Surgical Center" built in 1948 in El Vedado and,
24-559: The Tropicana as most of the arches there are for the most part self-supporting. Here as in the Tropicana Borges used the difference in height between arches to insert a clear glass skylight. The floors are polished concrete. This article about a Cuban building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Max Borges Jr. Max Borges Jr. , born Max Borges Recio (July 24, 1918 – January 18, 2009),
30-628: Was a Cuban architect best known for his work in Havana in the 1940s and 1950s. He later moved to the United States. Borges Jr. was born in Cuba, the son of Max Borges del Junco , an architect. He later studied in the United States, earning his bachelor's degree at Georgia Tech and a master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . Borges Jr. returned to Cuba and joined his father's firm, together with his brother Enrique. Borges' style
36-562: Was influenced by his work with Spanish structural engineer Félix Candela who practiced in Mexico and was a specialist in lightweight concrete parabolic structures. Borges invited Candela to work with him in Cuba, and they both developed extraordinary projects. His best known work is the Tropicana Club of 1951, for which he later designed expansions. Other unique buildings like the 1943 Apartment Building of Max Borges-del Junco at Jovellar St. and
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