Image 1 of 20 from gallery of AD Classics: Casa Milà / Antoni Gaudí. Photograph by Samuel Ludwig

Antonio Gaudi's La Pedrera. Casa Milà, commonly known as La Pedrera is the largest civil building designed by Antoni Gaudi. The apartment block was constructed between 1906 and 1910. It was Gaudi's last work before devoting himself to the construction of the Sagrada Familia. Pedro Milà i Camps, a rich businessman was impressed by the Casa Battló, an expressionist building designed by Gaudi. He commissioned Gaudi to construct an apartment building on a corner site at the Passeig de Gracia, in…

Casa Mila in Barcelona. Follow me on Instagram at ___Gwendo__ for more travel inspiration.

Casa Mila by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi is logic defiant, even hard to frame properly with the camera!. This modernista house is also known as La Pedrera (quarry) and has been featured in my blog several times. Today I just want to concentrate on that set of irregular balconies with elaborate and impossible ironwork. As you notice, the stone is cut and aligned in such manner that the balcony appears to undulate, like foamy waves that cast seaweed upon the shore. Of course the seaweed…

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The magnificent Casa Milà, have you ever visited it? 😍 Thanks to @malonpla 📸 Tag @thisisbarcelona in your best shots in Barcelona! 😎…

It was begun in 1882 using the conventional neo-Gothic designs of Francisco de Paula del Villar, who after two years of persistent quarrels with diocesan supervisors quit and handed the job over to his largely untested assistant Antoni Gaudí. Over the next four decades Gaudí worked toward a church that would be both intensely personal yet embracingly universal, startlingly unprecedented though rooted in tradition, and altogether far more rich and strange than anything del Villar ever dreamed…

Discover La Pedrera - Casa Milà, a Gaudí masterpiece in Barcelona and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Experience the rooftop with the best views of the city!