Casa Batlló on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona was redesigned by Antoni Gaudí from 1904 for the textile industrialist Josep Batlló, who bought an 1877 building by Emili Sala Cortés. The refurbishment was finished in 1906, with help from Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió. The infobox lists no style, and the text calls it Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense.
The lower facade is Montjuïc sandstone, with a trencadís mosaic and about 330 colored pottery rounds above. The roof has an arched, dragon-like profile with ceramic scale tiles, and its loft has sixty catenary arches. The light well is lined with blue tiles that spread light to the floors.
Seguros Iberia used the building as offices from 1954, and the Bernat family bought it in 1993. The noble floor opened to the public in 2002, and the fifth floor, loft and light well opened in 2004. UNESCO dates in the sources conflict.
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