Casa Calvet Barcelona, Gaudi Architecture
The Casa Calvet de Barcelona (1899) is one of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings. Some people consider it his most conservative work but it also contains markedly modernista elements.
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The Casa Calvet de Barcelona (1899) is one of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings. Some people consider it his most conservative work but it also contains markedly modernista elements.
Casa Batllo is the smaller and earlier of the Gaudi buildings on Passeig de Gracia: the facade is flatter but its roof more pronounced as organic architecture. You can visit the roof, like Casa Mila (also by Antoni Gaudi) expect queues at busier times of the year
Amatller House, Puig i Cadafalch Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi, Spain, Photos Casa Amatller Barcelona Passeig de Gracia Building, Catalonia, Spain – design by Puig i Cadafalch Casa Amatller Amatller House Passeig de Gracia 41, Eixample, Barcelona Date built: 1898-1900 Design: Puig i Cadafalch, Architect Photo from Summer 2011: photo © Adrian Welch Adjacent to Casa Batllo … Read more
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Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make ‘man-made dunes’.
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We design a longitudinal axis, which connects the building from the street to the interior of the city block. This axis is an itinerary that extends over the following sequence
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Auditori de Barcelona building, Spain, design by Rafael Moneo, architect – Rafael Moneo building photos, contemporary Catalan architecture, 42,000 sqm
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