http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/tags/alien/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:17:00 -0700 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:17:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1269/buddyicons/9147703@N03.jpg?1228938759#9147703@N03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/tags/alien/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2789863560/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/vgm8383/">vgm8383</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2789863560/" title="Casa Batllo"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3088/2789863560_67ea91b40e_m.jpg" width="240" height="165" alt="Casa Batllo" /></a></p> <p>Best viewed large: <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2789863560&amp;size=large">View On Black</a><br /> <br /> Casa Batlló (IPA: ['kazə bəʎ'ʎo, bəd'ʎo] in Catalan), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia.<br /> <br /> The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.<br /> <br /> The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.<br /> <br /> It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. 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 sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.<br /> <br /> Courtesy of Wikipedia</p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:17:00 -0700 2008-07-09T03:52:42-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (vgm8383) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2789863560 41.382131 2.167057 41.382131 2.167057 20220089 Casa Batllo <p>Best viewed large: <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2789863560&amp;size=large">View On Black</a><br /> <br /> Casa Batlló (IPA: ['kazə bəʎ'ʎo, bəd'ʎo] in Catalan), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia.<br /> <br /> The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.<br /> <br /> The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.<br /> <br /> It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. 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 sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.<br /> <br /> Courtesy of Wikipedia</p> vgm8383 barcelona windows roof chimney house building art home broken stone architecture facade work canon ceramic geotagged casa spain european dragon dinosaur mosaic alien modernism surreal catalonia historic espana architect artnouveau spanish tiles promenade gaudi bones restored restoration organic remodel nouveau casabatllo skeletal antoni hdr oval catalan casabatlló sculpted batllo nineteenthcentury batlló antonigaudí arched eixample visceral trencadis jujol unworldly xti josepmariajujol ovalwindows 400d houseofbones rebelxti canonrebelxti eixampledistrict illadeladiscòrdia goldstaraward damniwishidtakenthat modernismeorartnouveau sculptedstonework kazə kazəbəʎʎo bədʎokazəbəʎʎo bədʎo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2786324269/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/vgm8383/">vgm8383</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vgm8383/2786324269/" title="House of Bones"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3246/2786324269_51780a49ef_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="House of Bones" /></a></p> <p>Best viewed large: <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2786324269&amp;size=large">View On Black</a><br /> <br /> Casa Batlló (IPA: ['kazə bəʎ'ʎo, bəd'ʎo] in Catalan), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia.<br /> <br /> The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.<br /> <br /> The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.<br /> <br /> It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. 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 sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.<br /> <br /> Courtesy of Wikipedia</p> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:33:34 -0700 2008-07-09T03:54:23-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (vgm8383) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2786324269 41.382131 2.167057 41.382131 2.167057 20220089 House of Bones <p>Best viewed large: <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2786324269&amp;size=large">View On Black</a><br /> <br /> Casa Batlló (IPA: ['kazə bəʎ'ʎo, bəd'ʎo] in Catalan), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia.<br /> <br /> The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.<br /> <br /> The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.<br /> <br /> It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. 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 sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.<br /> <br /> Courtesy of Wikipedia</p> vgm8383 barcelona windows roof chimney house building art home broken stone architecture facade work canon ceramic geotagged casa spain european dragon dinosaur mosaic alien modernism surreal catalonia historic espana architect artnouveau spanish tiles promenade gaudi bones restored restoration organic remodel nouveau casabatllo skeletal antoni hdr oval catalan casabatlló sculpted batllo nineteenthcentury batlló antonigaudí arched eixample visceral trencadis jujol unworldly xti josepmariajujol ovalwindows 400d houseofbones mywinners rebelxti canonrebelxti eixampledistrict illadeladiscòrdia goldstaraward modernismeorartnouveau sculptedstonework kazə kazəbəʎʎo bədʎokazəbəʎʎo bədʎo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en