Casa Batlló (Barcelona)

...the almost impossible to pronounce, Casa Batllo. Earlier in the year I had attended a big industry conference in Barcelona and we'd had the conference 'gala' dinner in the Casa Batllo so I had already had a bit of a look around. Now I wanted to show my husband this little gem and get a bit more time to linger and look around. As I mentioned, the Casa Batllo is on Passeig de Gracia - just a few blocks down the road and on the other side from La Pedrera, ...
...degree of accessibility in the Casa Batllo makes it my favourite of the two. ~A little bit of History~ Gaudi didn't build 43 Passeig de Gracia - in fact there had already been a building there for nearly 30 years before he got his hands on it. The owner in 1900 was a local businessman called Josep Batllo Casanovas (great name, means new house - how appropriate). Originally he wanted the whole building knocked down and rebuilt from scratch but changed ...

koshkha 27.10.2006 · Read full review
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I visited the Cassa Battlo in Barcelona, because I am an artistic person and am drawn to the work of the Art Nouveau Movement all over the world, and one of my main reasons for my stay in Barcelona was to bask in the work of Antoni Gaudi, whose work is renowned, and for me this work is perfection in detail. The Cassa Battlo is no exception. What Gaudi did with his archecture was to take decoration one stage further, and to decorate the outside of ...
...inside of buildings. The popularity of this concept cannot be disputed as more and more people every year pay to see his work, and it saddens me that there were not more architects with the same forethought and originality as Gaudi, although perhaps it would have made his work less valid, and less original in concept. The fact that this house in all its splendour has passed the test of time and stands proudly overlooking a street in a city as busy ...

thingywhatsit 03.10.2004 · Read full review
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