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Casa Milá, Barcelona, by Antoni Gaudí, 1905–10.

Antoni Gaudí: Casa Milá

Antoni Gaudí: Casa Milá

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Casa Milá

building, Barcelona, Spain

Also known as: La Pedrera

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Gaudí’s design innovations

In Antoni Gaudí: Life
…notably the facade; and the Casa Milá (1905–10), the several floors of which are structured like clusters of tile lily pads with steel-beam veins. As was so often his practice, he designed the two buildings, in their shapes and surfaces, as metaphors of the mountainous and maritime character of Catalonia.
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