I `ve just received from the laboratory pictures of an old film roll without processing and I`ve found these of the Milá house. It seems to me that no one had opened a threadn about this work.
Pictures were taken with a Canon APS sistem camera with 28 - 100 zoom lens.

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1905–1907. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia ('passeig' is Catalan for promenade or avenue) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built for Roger Segimon de Milà. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí".
Most people consider it magnificent and overwhelming; some say it is like waves of lava or a sand-dune. This building seems to break our understanding of conventional architecture. The most astonishing part is the roof with an almost lunar appearance and dreamlike landscape.
The building can be considered more of a sculpture than a regular building. Critics remark on its detachment from usefulness, but others consider it to be art. The Barcelonese of the time considered it ugly, hence the "quarry" nickname, but today it is a landmark of Barcelona.
It could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which African tribes build their cave-like dwellings. The wavy facade, with its large pores, reminds one also of an undulating beach of fine sand, formed, for example, by a receding dune. The honeycombs made by industrious bees might also spring to the mind of the observer viewing the snake-like ups-and-downs that run through the whole building.

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The building is on Paseig de Gracia # 96, just eight blocks from Catalunya Square the center of Barcelona

Thanks for posting your pictures Jcruiz
I went to see this building about 15 years ago and, in my youth, was like "it's okay but what's the big deal"! Only after working as an architect for a while did I began to realise that it was really good and really hard to do. I mean people talk about minimalism being hard work, that might be true - relative to how easy it looks, but it pales into indignificance compared to the hard work and skill that went into this. :craqueur:

Thanks for posting your pictures Jcruiz
I went to see this building about 15 years ago and, in my youth, was like "it's okay but what's the big deal"! Only after working as an architect for a while did I began to realise that it was really good and really hard to do. I mean people talk about minimalism being hard work, that might be true - relative to how easy it looks, but it pales into indignificance compared to the hard work and skill that went into this. :craqueur:

Not only for the architect, but for some very skilled craftsmen as well. I don't know if this could be done today, at least not with these materials. Thanks for the pics!

Thanks for the pics. Brings back some memories of my visit there long, long ago. I was thrilled by the structure at the attic level. Brick ribbed vaults. Shockingly cool!

The colors surprised me too. The pics I have seen in books prior to going there didn't prepare me for the spectacular array of colors. Thanks again for the thread.

the stunning in Gaudi is that he was also like a sculpture maker and so he did lots of his buildings parts also on his own. Also interesting: new ideas were brought in during building phase (> Sagrada f.e.) and because of detailed things it took him so much time, or even they hadn`t been finished...

from WAN (http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1024)
"Gaudi on fast track to become architecture’s first Saint
We will never know what was uppermost in Antoni Gaudi’s mind in the last moments before he fell under a Barcelona tram on the 9th June 1926 but we can probably be sure that he wasn’t expecting to become architecture’s first saint.

Now, 81 years after his ignominious end, WAN has learned that wheels are turning deep within the walls of the Vatican that could see the architect receiving the ultimate commission. Cardinal Jo?e Saraiva Martins is wrestling with this crucial decision and just needs to give the nod to Pope Benedict XV1 for history to be made. Apparently Guadi’s candidature is based not on his architectural visions but on his ability to “intercede with God on behalf of those who pray for him”

Gaudi of course has been inextricably linked to the Catholic Church through his Sagrada Familia cathedral, now a world famous icon for Spain’s second largest city. Campaigners (yes its true) for his canonisation say that “his greatest creation has made faith accessible to the average person and inspired thousands who were not Catholics before they visited.”

However the decision for Cardinal Martins is a bit tricky as Gaudi is not up to specs in a few key areas. Usually saints will have inspired miracles or at least an apparition or two. Only one sighting of the saint-in-waiting was recorded by a German artist living in Barcelona who said that a younger version of Gaudi appeared in her flat, “He wanted to tell me something important about the way the Sagrada Familia worked. But I couldn’t hear him as I had earplugs in. When I took them out he disappeared.” Of course he could have been trying to warn her about the new underground Madrid Express which will rattle through only feet from the cathedral’s foundations threatening to shake the structure to bits even before it can be completed in 20 years time.

In a last (?) twist of irony the express train tunnel route, confirmed this week, has ignited an unholy row between the city of Barcelona and just about every action group imaginable. An engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called the railway plan “a thoughtless act of vandalism” while the president of the cathedral board of directors, Joan Rigol, said it could be “the kiss of death.”

We hope that the Cardinal can make his decision quicker than the 127 years the Sagrada Familia has taken so far to construct, still being only half complete…or maybe the St. will stand stand for Station not Saint...

WAN believes this story has yet to run it’s course…watch this space…"