This is the outside of La Pedrera the Gaudi museum and apartment building. The top two floors and roof are museum and the rest is either residential or retail space. Gaudi's twisted art nouveau style is on display with the organic bay windows. Notice the nature inspired wrought iron work for the railings.
The iron work continues here on the main gate with curved art nouveau shapes and symmetry.
Heres a look at the building from the line to get into the museum. I love the mix between the straight lines of the stones being put together and the flowing curves that are carved around them.
This is one of the two interior courtyards. They were not in the original building but Gaudi added them to bring light into all of the rooms in the apartments. He was a champion of bringing in as much natural light as possible and therefore a hero of mine.
Here is another one of the courtyard, I just liked how the sky came out on this one.
This is the courtyard from the roof down. You will notice that the shades are metal hurricane style shades. An odd choice I thought.
This is the rooftop sculpture garden on La Pedrera. For the most part these are the chimneys, exhaust pipes and water towers that are disguised under Gaudi's odd perceptions.
This is one of the mosaic covered water towers. I suppose all of the swirly lightness was supposed to look like clouds, to me it looked like a cool whip commercial or Marvel soft serve.
The chimneys almost look like roman legions.
Some of the chimneys were covered in green glass, or staying with the theme, green sprinkles.
The lighting was great as the sun was setting, there were also great views of this section of the city from the roof. On the corners of the roof there were little caves that you could hide in incase of rain.
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