Back into the city this morning for another Gaudí building, another apartment complex called Casa Batlló, though in fact this building was only renovated (not constructed) by Gaudí for Josep Batlló. Like other Gaudí buildings there are numerous features of interest, roof fixtures to hide chimneys and air ducts, light well, attic area for services like laundry, but key theme of this building remodel is the ocean like curves and colors throughout the building.

The tour itself is also somewhat unusual. Like many venues in the city one can get an audio guide, but this one actually adds visually to the tour. The audio guide device is like a smart phone with a real screen and if one points the device at part of a room that room is displayed on the device with the furnishings that would have been used when occupied as a house, and in some cases other images are displayed as well. For example a mushroom to depict the mushroom shape of a fire place, and the internal detail of a model of the building that is actually without and physical internal detail.

The other little tid-bit of trivia that seems to have stuck with after the visit to Casa Batlló is the numbering of the apartment doors in this building. Firstly they are not numbered by have letters, A-H (if I remember correctly), BUT the truly amazing thing is that Gaudí created an entirely new type font for these letters. I find this level of attention to (or is it obsession with) the detail amazing. One gets the impression that his brain was on fire with ideas 24 hours a day.