Casa Batlló, Barcelona - Spain
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member manchanegra
N 41° 23.507 E 002° 09.924
31T E 430225 N 4582585
A must see in Barcelona and one of Gaudí's best buildings, even though he only redesigned the old façade e kade it more beautiful and converted the main floor into a home, taking care to respect the old building.
Waymark Code: WM66X8
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 04/14/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Szuchie
Views: 99

Casa Batlló, is a building located at 43,Passeig de Grácia in Barcelona, Spain. It´s one of the masterpieces of Antoni Gaudi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD).

The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

From Wikipedia
City, State or City, Country: Barcelona, Spain

Year Built: 1877

Architect: Antoni Gaudi

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