Casa Batlló is a renowned building located in the center of Barcelona
and is one of Antoni Gaudi’s masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built
house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudi and has been refurbished several
times after that. Gaudi's assistants Domenec Sugranes i Gras, Josep Canaleta
and Joan Rubio also contributed to the renovation project. The local name for
the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral, skeletal
organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and
situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. Like everything Gaudi designed,
only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The
ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and
flowing sculpted stone work. There are few straight lines, and much of the façade
is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles. 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 lance of Saint George which has been
plunged into the back of the dragon. Source
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