Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.
- Height
- 30 m98 ft
- Completed
- 1912
- By
- Antoni Gaudí
- Coordinates
- 41° 23′ 43″ N2° 09′ 43″ E · 41.3953, 2.1620
A stone front that undulates round its chamfered corner, floor upon floor of rippling bands, and the rooftop’s stair towers and chimneys standing like sentries.
Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Barcelona, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.
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