Barcelona

 Last year I had the opportunity to go to Barcelona.

I found it to be a beautiful city with amazing city planning.

One of the main reasons was to go and see some past projects of Antoni Gaudí. He was a Spanish designer and architect whose designs are very unique.

His first project is filled with fine detailed design elements that link to nature. This is also the project where he began to use Trencadís. This is the process of using broken tiles, traditionally a waste material, to create something beautiful. The reason for inventing this new technique was that Gaudí had incorporated curved walls into his design, meaning traditional glazed square tiles would not fit.

Many other buildings in Barcelona have been designed by him, with his most famous and ambitious project being The Sagrada Familia. Construction of the immense cathedral began on 19 March 1882 and is still uncompleted.