Casa Calvet, Barcelona

Casa Calvet on Carrer de Casp in the Eixample, built between 1898 and 1900 for the textile industrialist Pere Màrtir Calvet, with his business at street level and apartments above. It is Gaudí at his most conventional, a Baroque-flavored stone front, and it won Barcelona City Council's prize for the best building of 1900, the only award he received in his lifetime. Look up at the twin curved gables crowned with iron crosses, then down at the carved bay window over the door.