The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The stone façade is decorated with colored glass fragments, ceramic circles, and mask-shaped balconies. The undulating, scaled roof suggests a dragon's back.

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