Havana buildingsHavana buildings comprise a living museum of colonial and modern architecture. There is an endless array of structures, from the palatial to the simple, that span five centuries of amazing construction and imaginative design.
Buildings in Havana, whether colonial, art deco, rococco, art nouveau or modern, were laid out on the grid system with narrow roads to provide shade. 
The FOCSA apartments caused a sensation when finished in 1956 
The Solimar Building (above right) was designed in 1944 A Cuban told me, “We always went abroad, in search of the very latest styles, and we brought home what had inspired us but we put our own Cuban stamp on the end result.” Havana styleOn the video above, hear a Cuban expert talk about Havana's style
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