In one of the most extreme architectural makeovers ever seen, Gaudí and his long-time collaborator Josep Maria Jujol took an ordinary apartment block and remodelled it inside...
Passeig de Gràcia 43Darling of the Sunday papers, El Bulli is possibly the most talked-about restaurant in the world today; thus it merits a mention here, despite its location up on the Costa...
Cala MontjoiJosep Lluís Sert, who spent the years of the Franco dictatorship as Dean of the School of Design at Harvard University, designed one of the greatest museum buildings in the...
Parc de Montjuïc s/nDescribed variously as rising dough, molten lava and a stone lung, the last secular building designed by Antoni Gaudí, the Casa Milà (popularly known as La Pedrera, 'the stone...
Passeig de Gràcia 92-C/Provença 261-265Commissioned by the nationalistic Orfeó Català choral society, this jawdropping concert hall was intended as a paean to the Catalan renaixença and a showcase for the most...
C/Sant Francesc de Paula 2This extraordinary visual explosion of Modernista architectural flights of fancy is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Built in 1908 by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it is certainly...
C/Sant Francesc de Paula 2Send Gaudí and the Sagrada Família to hell,' wrote Picasso, and while it is easy to see how some of the religious clichés of the building and the devotional fervour of its...
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