Editing Casa Milà (section)

=== Restoration ===
[[File:Pedrera P1290401.JPG|thumb|left|After being re-painted a dreary brown, the building's colors were restored in the 1980s]]
Gaudí's work was designated a historic and artistic [[monument]] on July 24, 1969. Casa Milà was in poor condition in the early 1980s. It had been painted a dreary brown and many of its interior color schemes had been abandoned or allowed to deteriorate, but it has been restored since including restoring many of the original colors.<ref name="Restoration">{{cite book |last1=Asarta Ferraz |first1=Francisco Javier |title=La Pedrera : Gaudi and his work |publisher=Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya |location=Barcelona |isbn=978-84-89860-06-3 |pages=112–134 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lapedreragaudihi0000unse/page/134/mode/2up |chapter=Restoration of la Pedrera|year=1998 }}</ref>

In 1984, the building became part of a [[World Heritage Site]] encompassing some of Gaudí's works. The Barcelonan city council tried to rent the main floor as an office for the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympic]] bid. Finally, the day before [[Christmas]] 1986, [[Caixa Catalunya]] bought La Pedrera for 900 million pesetas.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Minder |first1=Raphael |title=What's It Like to Live in Barcelona's Most Famous Gaudí Home? A Bit Inconvenient  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/world/europe/barcelona-gaudi-la-pedrera-casa-mila.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/world/europe/barcelona-gaudi-la-pedrera-casa-mila.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |access-date=31 December 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On February 19, 1987, urgently needed work began on the restoration and cleaning of the façade. The work was done by the architects Joseph Emilio Hernández-Cros and Rafael Vila.<ref name="Restoration"/> The renovated main floor opened in 1990 as part of the [[Cultural Olympiad]] of Barcelona. The floor became an exhibition room with an example of [[modernism]] in the [[Eixample]].<ref name=huertas/>