The south side of Passeig de Grŕcia between Consell de Cent and Aragó today represents a single facade of adjoining houses from the early 20th century, built by the most distinguished architects. This stretch is known as “La Manzana de la Discordia”, a play on words meaning both the Block of Discord and the Bone of Contention. Here, architects such as Domčnec i Montaner, Enrique Sagnier, Puig i Cadafalch and Antoni Gaudí built adjacent works of art which in their day competed for urban design prizes awarded by the Barcelona City Council.
The undulating facade, covered in glazed ceramic polychromatic discs and shards of different coloured broken glass, has been compared pictorially to The Water Lilies, the series of oil paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926).