This Week’s Crazy Building: Park Güell

No, this isn’t a gingerbread house, the Park Güell is a popular tourist destination in Barcelona, Spain. It was built in 1914 when Barcelona was in an exciting period of reconstruction. A new plan, “the Eixample,” had been conceived for the city and was the largest reconstruction project in Europe at the time. In Spain,
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa Vicens

BCNCVC032 by Jon Ander is used under public domain
The overwhelmingly elaborate Casa Vicens is something only an architect as skilled as Antoni Gaudí could hope to realize. This home in Barcelona, Spain was the world-famous architect’s first significant commission as a young man. In 1883 Manel Vicens i Montaner, a stock and currency broker commissioned Gaudí, 31 years old at the time, to
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Sagrada Família

Passion façade by Wjh31 is licensed under CC BY 3.0
Sagrada Família, located in Barcelona, Spain was designed by Antoni Gaudí. In it, he blends Gothic and Art Nouveau styles. This was his last work and when he died in 1926 it was still incomplete. It is still under construction and set to be completed by 2026 which is the centennial anniversary of Gaudí’s death.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: El Capricho

El Capricho 2 by Jim Anzalone is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
El Capricho, located in Comillas, Spain is another creation by architect Antoni Gaudí. He is known for his modernist style and unusual designs. He preferred not to create plans for his designs but rather made three-dimensional scale models and added details as he designed the work. Design Inspiration Commissioned by Máximo Díaz de Quijano, El
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa Milá

Casa Mila by Rob Shenk is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Casa Milá in Barcelona, Spain. Also called “La Pedrera” (“The Quarry”), this strange, modernist-style building was the last public work by world-renowned architect Antonio Gaudí. It was built for land developer Pere Milá and his wife. Like Casa Batlló, another of Gaudí’s later works, there are bonelike structures that make
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló by Keith Roper licensed under the terms of CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain. Remodeled in 1904 by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí, this unusual structure is nicknamed the “House of Bones” due to its organic and skeleton-like appearance. There are a plethora of architectural oddities packed into this building, including large oval windows, a facade decorated with multicolored
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