Loft, Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain

Loft space, with 60 white catenary arches supporting the roof structure, resembling the ribcage a huge creature, formerly used as a service area for laundry and storage, in Casa Batllo, originally built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortes and totally remodelled 1904-6 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style, for Josep Batllo y Casanovas, a textile industrialist, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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