Barcelona: Gaudà Building Opens As Museum
Casa Vicens, the first home designed and built by Antoni GaudÃ, opens as a museum in Barcelona today (16 November). The $5m project to restore the 19th-century building, which is listed as a Unesco World Heritage site, has taken three years and has been funded by MoraBanc, a private bank in Andorra that acquired the property in March 2014. GaudÃ, who is perhaps best known for his design of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, is considered one of Spain’s most famous architects and is renowned for his distinctive Modernist style and colourful surface decorations.
