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An interior door at the Casa Asia.
I've been trying to shoot fabulous door handles all week - it is harder than I would have thought. ...
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Tile floor in the entry area
A few close-up images of the Palau del Baró de Quadras, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and...
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Glass door in the entry
Oleum Restaurant in MNAC
A really wonderful renovation is seen throughout the Museum, done by Gae Aulenti and...
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Another view of Oleum Restaurant.
The museum calls this magnificent space the "Throne Room," as Spain's King opened the 1929 exposition from this space.
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Roofscape
This building was designed for the same 1929 exposition that debuted Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona...
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Note the nice slot above the stair tread. Welding is legible, which I confess I prefer.
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One could make catalogues of key features in Barcelona buildings: the stairs, the gates, the doors,...
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Column capital II
One more of the column capital. The ornamental detail seen through frosted glass in the background is part of the original building as well.
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Exterior
The element on the top is an artwork by Antoni Tàpies. It was added to the original building in a...
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Wonderful column capitals
The "Modernista" architects in late nineteenth-century Barcelona used industrial and...
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Second floor gallery overlooks first
The rear of the second floor gallery houses an extensive library; the wall between these spaces is...
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Stair wrapped in steel plate.
A lovely detail from the 2008-2010 renovation (simply marvelous) by Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos.
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A closer look at a jacketed column.
Not all columns are jacketed; in a way, that is part of what is lovely about their handling. As I...
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Close-up of three types of formwork
The holes are created with re-usable formwork in carbon fiber and wood.
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Wall poured, but still needing shoring
Bhutan
Heisei Architecture
Meiji-Taisho-Sh owa
