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In September, they commissioned Gaudí for building them a new house with the idea of living in the main floor and renting out the rest of the apartments. On February 2, 1906, the project was presented to the Barcelona City Council and the works began, demolishing the pre-existing building instead of reforming it, as in the case of the Casa ...
Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.
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 ...
Gràcia (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈɡɾasiə]), meaning "grace" (in English), is a district of the Mediterranean city of Barcelona, in the northeastern autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It comprises the barris (neighborhoods) of Vila de Gràcia , Vallcarca i els Penitents , El Coll , La Salut and Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova .
Navas, unofficially known as Torrent de la Guineu, is a neighborhood in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona, Catalonia . The Avinguda Meridiana is spanning the neighborhood. Its population as of 1 January 2016 [update] was 22,100 people on a land area of 0.42 km 2 (0.16 sq mi). [ 1 ]
District hall Original Eixample concept from 1859 Part of the Eixample and the Sagrada Família, viewed from Montjuïc, June 2006 Eixample street and block layout. The Eixample (Catalan: [əˈʃamplə], ' Expansion ') is a district of Barcelona between the old city (Ciutat Vella) and what were once surrounding small towns (Sants, Gràcia, Sant Andreu, etc.), constructed in the 19th and early ...
Barcelona Sant Martí: 4 Habitat Sky (Hotel Meliá Barcelona Sky) 116 m (381 ft) 31 2008 Hotel Barcelona Sant Martí: 5 Hotel Porta Fira: 113 m (371 ft) 26 2010 Hotel L'Hospitalet Granvia l'Hospitalet: 6 Torre Realia BCN: 112 m (367 ft) 24 2009 Office L'Hospitalet Granvia l'Hospitalet: 7 Diagonal Zero Zero: 110 m (361 ft) 24 2009 Office ...
Barcelona subsoil sanitation project: sewerage, drainage, urban waste (1891), by Pere Garcia Fària. From the end of the century it is worth mentioning Pere Garcia Fària's project to regulate the city's sewage system (Proyecto de saneamiento del subsuelo de Barcelona: alcantarillado, drenaje, residuos urbanos, 1891). It was a project that ...