Casa Batllo by Antoni Gaudi part of Illa de la Discòrdia [43 Passeig de Gràcia, Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe]..
Casa Batlló (Battlo) is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia. 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. Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 - 10 June 1926), in English sometimes erroneously referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí, was a Spanish Catalan architect who belonged to the Modernist style (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs. Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment. This photograph is part of the Imagine Images Collection, hosted by Alamy. .
Size: 3348px × 5022px
Location: 43 Passeig de Gràcia, Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe. .
Photo credit: © Al Pidgen / Imagine Images / Alamy / Afripics
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