Does Gaudí’s Church Need a Big Staircase? Grand Vision Divides Barcelona

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Architect Antoni Gaudi spent much of his career on Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia. He died in 1926 but people are still trying to figure out exactly what he wanted.

BARCELONA—Nearly a century after the architect Antoni Gaudí was hit by a tram and killed while crossing a road in Barcelona, his successors are still decoding what he had in mind for his unfinished masterpiece, the city’s surrealist Sagrada Familia.

The basilica has divided opinion for years. Parts of it resemble giant termite hills towering over the city, delighting visitors with its exuberance. Others thought it hideous. George Orwell wrote that “the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance”...

 

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few. Visited several years ago. Majestic.

They can move if they are tired of all the tourists visiting the tourist destination, bringing money to the area.

What Gaudi’s church needs is.... to hurry the fuck up and get finished. We’re going on 4 decades now.

let those people build things they want.

Not sure it would help. Right now the solution is for the line to wrap around the block, which is fine.

Big news...

Hideous. Absolutely hideous.

“Krull’s” palace of s-pain.

He designed the blocks that Roman cult has built for humanity. His purpose was to clearly show people that Roman Cult has hidden facts, scripts & pictures from Jesus. What are blocks? The code ( blue ants codes) appears this way in 4th dimension.

Lifetime employment

NO

I was in the military over 30 years ago and visited the cathedral... It hasn't changed a whole heck of a lot.

I loved the Sagrada Familia, it does suck that the original blueprints were burned and no one really knows what he would’ve wanted. It also is unfortunate when you see the two sides of it though

Waste of time.

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