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" by the same architectImage via Wikipedia
Catalan info: here
Bisbe Catalá 8
Love the pretty colors and details....
ReplyDeleteI'd love to live in a house like that although also fun for a bank office and pharmacy. There is something so whimsical about it. Great shots!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful building!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful, colorful place and such interesting history, Mar! Wonderful post and photos for the day! There is indeed something very whimsical about it! Terrific captures for the day! Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Such a wonderful house! Have never seen anything like this. Amazing shot!
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit Barcelona some day. This is a lovely re-post. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful building! Wonderful colors. At least the garbage and recycling containers match the building colors!
ReplyDeleteI love this style.....That almost-combination of Neveau and Deco....Too bad they had to have all their refuse containers out there covering a lot of the beauty of the building....
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome building, excellent shots.
ReplyDeleteThat is a wonderful building with great designs on it.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty details and shots.
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful house and I love the architecture ! but the garbadge containers are really in the wrong place ! They should move them to a glass box house !
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