The best £6.99 I ever spent was on a January afternoon in Brighton in 1989, when I saw something in a student book sale that grabbed my attention. I’d made the journey for an open day at the ...

Casa Milà, popularly known as La Pedrera, looks like an artistic piece of modern architecture, but it’s not. This unusual building of undulating stone facade and wrought iron balconies and windows was ...

Described variously as rising dough, molten lava and a stone lung, the last secular building designed by Antoni Gaudí, the Casa Milà (popularly known as La Pedrera, 'the stone quarry') has no straight ...

The first to be built, between 1904 and 1906, was Casa Batlló, a private family home which quickly earned the local nickname 'House of Bones' due to its extraordinary, skeletal façade. Inside, not a ...

“How about Casa Mila?” I suggest. “It’s Barcelona’s second most popular tourist attraction,” I cajole. “It was the last private residence designed by Gaudi and was built between 1906 and 1912.” She ...

For Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona was a canvas with endless possibilities. The city was also his muse, where the 19th-century artist created whimsical, bold structures blending Gothic and ...