Description:

Discover a time not so far away, where the printing sounds marked the start of the day and the street where there was a printing press smells like ink.

This building pays tribute to one of the graphic arts that is gradually disappearing by the transition from paper to digital.

Inspired in several buildings where I live built in the early twentieth century, with a mix of past architectural styles (Mudéjar, Baroque) and a localist approach.

The building:

The building consists of three buildings.
The first is a three-story building, the other two are attached and one has a ground floor and the last has a colonnade and a first floor.

Ground floor: sweets and papers.

Printing House: is the oldest and only remaining printing press in the city. The current owner entered as a teenager, but became familiar with the business and when the previous owner had to retire and had no successors to leave the printing press, he became the new owner. Don’t be afraid of that serious face, it’s someone to trust. A new worker recently joined, a former university student who finished his career in graphic arts. He is a little older than the owner when he entered the business. He is a little clumsy, but gradually he will improve. Being the first business to be installed in the building, the inhabitants began to call this building as the printing house.

Cake shop: Recently opened, it sells the best breads and sweets in the neighborhood. From chocolate sweets or ice cream to delicious cakes or aromatic coffees. The owner is a college buddy of the new printer worker.

First floor: new opportunities.

Office of the architect: here we find one of the last inhabitants to join this building. She had a dream to have her own architect’s studio, and found a perfect and cheap one, not to mention how convenient it is to have a printing house on the floor below, if you need to make photocopies for your presentations of your new architectural projects.

Nursery school: The teacher is a friend of the architect. Looking together for a place to develop their work, they saw that in the building they had to rent two spaces on the first floor and each set up their own business. She has an excellent and friendly relationship with both infants and parents.

Security office: located above the colonnade, there is the surveillance room of the building. These days it is being renovated. The guard is a lifelong friend of the owner of the printing press and occasionally they are seen chatting about things from the past.

Second floor: a lifelong apartment.

Here lives the previous owner of the printing press. The arduous working days from six o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the evening were gone. The press set it up together with her husband and on the floor below this, there were rooms for workers if they had to work overtime at night because of any breaking news that came to them, and they had to send it to the local newspaper before dawn so that it could be distributed to citizens. Now what makes her happy are the visits of her granddaughter telling her how her day has gone.

Minifigures:

There are a total of 9 minifigures:

The printing press owner.
The printing press worker.

The baker.
The architect.
The teacher.
A baby.
The guard.
The previous owner and her granddaughter.

Dimensions:

16,8 x 52,9 x 32,5 cm | 6.6 x 20,8 x 12,8 in.