Texture

Rough – Plaça Àngels

Apart from all the fancy decorative elements that abound in Barcelona, I love the textures that you can find on its walls all over the city. They can be very inspiring. Here, heck for yourself…

Rough :: 2 – Carrer Minerva

Linear – Carrer Mas Yebra

70’s funky – Carrer Floridablanca

Sinuous – Carrer Floridablanca

Hieroglyphs? – Carrer Còdols

Which is your favourite?

3 in 1 – Carrer Minerva

Brick delights

Tiered

It is a well-known fact, that buildings constructed at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in Barcelona were embellished with a range of techniques which were popular at the time. But there are also buildings, such as the Caixa Forum building, a former factory designed by architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, where the embellishments are mostly found in the way the bricks that make up the skin of the building were laid.  Here are some brick delights from said building for your visual pleasure…

Steps

And there are more…

Patterns

Ronda de Universitat

Grates, grilles, blinds, tiles, curtains, trees, walls, carvings and the way shadows interact with what’s blocking the light… Patterns are absolutely everywhere if only you are willing to be aware of them and spot them as you go through your daily actions…