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Casa Batlló
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Key facts
- Former names
- House of bones
- Alternative names
- Casa dels ossos (House of Bones)
- Location
- Barcelona , Spain
- Material
- stone, metal, wood, ceramic
- Architect
- Antoni Gaudí
- Other designers
- Domènec Sugrañes i Gras , Josep Canaleta, Joan Rubió
- Part of
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Criteria
- Cultural: (i), (ii), (iv)
- Reference
- 320-006
- Inscription
- 1984 (8th Session )
- Type
- Non-movable
- Designated
- 24 July 1969
- Reference no
- RI-51-0003815
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Encyclopedic overview
Casa Batlló ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəˈʎːo] ) is a building in the center of Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí (but the actual construction works hadn't begun at this point) and has been refurbished several times since. Gaudí's assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió 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 is located on the Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample district, and forms part of a row of houses known as the Illa de la Discòrdia (or Mansana de la Discòrdia, the "Block of Discord"), which consists of four buildings by noted Modernista architects of Barcelona.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Casa Batlló” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.