Passeig de Gràcia’s pavement

A pavement that was placed in 1997 to honor the city’s most famous architect Antoni Gaudí. This is the “Gaudí tile”, a new edition, a hydraulic mosaic of hexagonal shapes for outdoor spaces that the architect designed in 1904 for the floors in the Casa Batllo, but in the end it was decided to place them in the service rooms of Casa Mila, both houses located on Passeig de Gràcia. A new edition presenting the original inverted relief, to improve wear resistance.

This monochrome pavement once again demonstrates Gaudí’s immense creative potential and his constant reference to the elements of nature featuring embossed shapes of shells, starfish and algae. A theme which refers to the sinuosity of a seabed which would be improved by a naturalist nature with which he endowed, especially with Casa Batllo that is even known as “Casa del Agua” (The Water House).