Inscrite sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, la Casa Vicens a fait l'objet d'un plan de réhabilitation démarré en 2017. Dès l'automne prochain, cette bâtisse construite à la fin ...

Casa Vicens was Gaudí’s first house and first architectural work. He finished his studies in 1878 and began the project in 1883. The house was completed in 1885 and was later declared a UNESCO ...

When we lived around the corner from Gaudí’s Casa Milà (La Pedrera) in the 1970s, it was sad to see its surreally sinuous facade in such dire need of a good scrub. The only queues were into ...

Most notably, Easter 2017 marks the first-ever public opening of Gaudí’s Casa Vicens, dubbed “the house where it all began”.Already, it’s estimated that 500 people a day spend more than ...

On a quiet street in Barcelona’s Gràcia district, Casa Vicens has long been an off-radar landmark. The first major project by Catalonian modernist Antonio Gaudí, it attracts curious looks from the ...

The Casa Vicens estate was the first project for which Gaudí started developing his signature style. In the fall, it will open as a public museum. The buildings of 19th-century Catalan architect ...

But still, it is an approximation. Less than 15 years after its completion, Vicens sold his custom-made summer home, and in 1925 its new owner, Antoni Jover, converted the one-family house into a ...

The Restoration of Casa Vicens, Antoni Gaudí’s Hidden Gem Next year, an early masterwork by the Catalan architect opens to the public for the first time—and the banking scion running it has ...

La Casa Vicens est une villa d'été, bâtie entre 1883 et 1885 pour un courtier répondant au nom de Manuel Vicens i Montaner. Considérée comme un exemple de la période orientale de Gaudi, la ...