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1860
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1864
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1882 - 1883
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1888
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Café-Restaurant of the 1888 International Exhibition
The building highlights new architectural values as part of the first Universal Exhibition. It consists of a large dining room and a cafe on the ground floor, a rectangular box with folded façades, so that the exterior image of the building is modeled independently of the interior requirements. The four corners are highlighted by four towers with different crowns. The structure responds to a rigorous application of the brick and iron factory, protagonists of the new architecture. The relationship between the ornamentation and the structure is also clearly resolved: the battlements of the outer wall surround the building accompanied by glazed ceramic shields with airtight inscriptions. This is the first building-manifesto of modernism, which shows some guidelines that later other architects will apply to more complex programs.1887 - 1892
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Martí House
It is the first work by Puig i Cadafalch in Barcelona, after some works done in Mataró and Argentona. This is a reinterpretation of the Gothic house: the ground floor is intended for the brewery "Els Quatre Gats", a meeting point for the most cosmopolitan intellectual elites of modernism, the "lovers of the north", in the words of Opisso. The main floor is for the owners' home, and the third and fourth floors are for rent. Puig captures the northern vocation of the promoters with a composition based on the Northern Gothic: a large brick factory with profuse stone ornaments, supported by seven large, pointed arches and crowned by a gallery under a large eaves, with sculptures by Josep Llimona and Eusebi Arnau, and forges by Manuel Ballarín. The grandstands on the main floor and the main door incorporate a dense flamboyant Gothic ornamentation. The house becomes a powerful attraction for the sensibilities of its promoters.1895 - 1896
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1896
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1897
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1902
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Interior refurbishment of Fonda Espanya
In 1900, Miquel Salvadó, owner of the Fonda Espanya, commissioned Domènech to renovate his establishment in Barcelona's Raval district. Salvadó wanted to extend and modernise the establishment, which had been in use since 1859, to bring it up to the level of the new restaurants that were being created at the end of the century. The work consisted of refurbishing the dining rooms and foyer of the inn, which opened in 1900, renovating the staircase and installing a lift, adapting the waiting room, the guest dining room, the music room and the living soom and the reading room, which were completed in 1903. Although at first it was only a question of changing the interior decoration, Domènech ended up carrying out a complete refurbishment of the ground floor, rearranging the spaces and removing walls, bringing in natural light. The walls separating the various rooms were replaced by large metal beams supported by pilasters with decorated capitals, and a large glass skylight was built. All the interiors were lavishly ornamented, with great decorative creativity, which was adapted to each space. Particularly remarkable are the sgraffito mermaids by Ramon Casas in the guest dining room. In 1903 all the work was completed and a year later it was awarded the prize for the best commercial establishment in the competition organised by Barcelona City Council. Over the years it has changed owners, and although it has undergone some modifications, a large part of Domènech's work has been maintained, always maintaining its original use.1900 - 1903
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1904
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1909
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1910
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1912
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1912 - 1913
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Santuari de la Misericòrdia Restaurant
Double-height main nave with a parabolic arch framing windows made with careful brickwork. The same treatment can be seen in the annex, the restaurant facilities and the gabled house.1914
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1916
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1921
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1919 - 1923
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first half of the 20th century
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Casal Gelidenc Café
autoria desconeguda
Large rectangular building with a gable roof. It has with two floors, the first one is covered by tiled vaults and the second by a flat roof and "art déco" decoration. The extraordinary luminosity due to the large windows and the longitudinal balcony on the left of the building, where the coat of arms of Catalonia appears on the railing, is worth noting, a motif that is repeated in the two attic windows, where on one of them has disappeared.20th century