The architecture
Hung, then turned over
How a method Antoni Gaudí used in Barcelona became the facade of four townhomes on NE 26th Avenue.
Gaudí found his arches by hanging chains and letting gravity find the curve, then turning the shape upside down. A hanging chain is pure tension; turned over, the same curve stands in pure compression. The facade at Gaudí Villas starts from that idea.
The exoskeleton
A sculpted concrete form stands in front of the glass across the whole west elevation, so each of the four homes has its own face on the street rather than a share of one. Four great rings span the upper two floors, small arches line the ground floor, and soft, round trunks rise from the street. It wraps both corners: at the north end the rings turn and run back along the flank, and at the south end the form turns onto 820’s terrace.
- Material
- Formed concrete and rebar. The builder puts it at about fifty tons of concrete in the facade alone, and about 4,500 linear feet of rebar.
- Finish
- Smooth, thick and bright white, finished by hand, with no joints or seams.
- Metalwork
- Two-inch metal distressed with a hammer by hand rather than bent by machine, in twisted, rope-like runs between the rings. The same hand-worked language carries inside into the railings and hardware.
- Pattern
- No two bays repeat, so the facade never reads as a module.
- Light
- The building faces west onto NE 26th Avenue, so the facade takes the afternoon and the sunset.
The building behind it
- Four bays
- 23 ft 4 in at each end and 23 ft in the middle, one home to a bay, ground to roof.
- Raised
- The ground floor sits about four feet above the street, at 8.45 ft NAVD.
- Separate homes
- Each on its own folio, under its own roof, with its own sewer connection to the city main.
- Gardens
- The pools and gardens face east, toward the Intracoastal, 490 feet from the door.
Who made it
- Builder
- Artisan Luxe Builders LLC, licence CGC1534091
- Architect of record
- Space and Forms Inc, Pembroke Pines
- Structural and MEP
- MJM Engineering Inc, Sunrise
- Civil
- Nino and Moreno Inc, Parkland
- Permits
- Approved by the City of Fort Lauderdale in June 2025
From the title blocks of the approved permit drawings, and from the builder.
Updated 2 October 2026.