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Casa Batlló is a building designed by Antoni Gaudi and built in years 1905- 1907; situated 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, Spain. 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 Gaudi designed, only identifiable as 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 mosaicThis article is about a decorative art. See Mosaic (disambiguation) for other meanings. Mosaic is a medium of art that may embody the most meaningful iconography in a culture's most important settings, as in the cathedral of Monreale below , or it may be made of broken ceramic tiles that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is archFor ARCH models, see autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e. a doorway in a stone wall). The arch was developed in Ancient Greece and later refined ined and was likened to the back of a dragonThe term dragon according to context, may be referring to: European dragon, mythical creature Middle-earth dragons, from the books by J. Tolkien Swamp dragon, a fictional reptile species from Terry Pratchett's Discworld Pernese dragons, from the books by or dinosaurSaurischia Ornithischia The dinosaurs were a diverse and long-lived superorder of prehistoric reptiles. What is a dinosaur? Definition Dinosaurs are a superorder of reptiles that first appeared approximately 230 million years ago. A few lines of primitive.
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