Thursday, April 17, 2008

small is beautiful

This is a precious small building in the Les Corts district in Barcelona. Once a family home, today it houses a bank office and a pharmacy. The urban collection of containers in front of it sort of damages the beautiful view... next to the yellow mailbox on the left there is first the garbage and then the recycling center: yellow lid is for plastic, green igloos are for glass and the blue lid is for paper/cardboard.



This is the Torre Cortés, modernist style, built in 1913 by Salvador Valeri i Pupurull (1873- 1954) whose work "is characterized by spectacular frontispieces of waved design, following the Art Nouveau common criteria, contributing a exuberant sculptural decoration with vegetal designs of very varied forms". The details are beautiful, click to enlarge the pictures for a better view.






Even the roof tiles are colorful!


Casa Comalat "Casa Comalat" by the same architect
Image via Wikipedia


Catalan info: here
Bisbe Catalá 8

20 comments:

  1. The house has a beautful architecture, I wonder why they always put bins in the front. It's often the same here too.

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  2. Lovely architecture. I always love finding buildings that are pleasing to the eyes.

    Michelle sent me!

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  3. That's a beautiful house. I find it almost fanciful as if the architect had a sense of humor as well as a sense of style.

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  4. Isn't it just ADORABLE!? I love it! I soooooo wish we HAD stuff like that here!!! Blogging is teaching me that American's are unusually boring...

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  5. I love the roof line and the applied decoration.

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  6. Beautiful building, Mar...especially wonderful to see all the detail...! The tile work and that roof...Really stunning!
    And the other building by the same Architect...Fabulous, too!

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  7. Beautiful building!! It is such a waste to put those awful things in front of such a gorgeous building. Thanks for sharing. I love the architecture!!

    Sandy

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  8. What beautiful house and great architecture - so collarful as well - thanks for sharing!

    I often have the same problem trying to capture some old buildings in Oslo, Norway and then you have these 'urban collection of containers' in front. I guess we'll have to live with it.

    Wishing you a great end to your week :-)

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  9. how beautiful MAr, what a treasure!

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  10. I love the architecture! What a beautiful building that is...very nice.

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  11. What a beautiful building. What a shame they put those unsightly containers outside it!

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  12. Very beautiful! I´d love to spy inside =)

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  13. One absolutely BEAUtiful building!!! I love the detail and I'm glad you showed close ups of it all!! Outstanding.

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  14. What beautiful architecture!! Love the colors!!

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  15. An original and beautiful architecture. Spain has a marvelous culturel patrimoine.
    Have a nice weekend, Mar

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  16. Oh, I think it's beauuuuutiful! Very interesting indeed. I saw some interesting buildings, very briefly, when passing Barcelona and wanted to STAY....

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  17. That is spectacular ! I love it. :)

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