Archive for February, 2007

The devil double-parks

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day in Barcelona that heralded the coming of spring and the end of cold weather. So of couse I spent the whole afternoon cooped up indoors with a cold waching a film.
The thing about staying indoors at the weekend is that you notice something that isn’t quite so bad [...]

Robert Hughes article on Catalan Architecture

Via The Guardian:
Barcelona is celebrated as one of Europe’s finest cultural treasures, but until recently we knew little about its heritage. Robert Hughes on how a group of architects - in particular Gaudí - created a uniquely Catalan city that combined the myths of a glorious past with progress and innovation.

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