Gaudi's Sagrada Familia is one of my favorite buildings (and Barcelona one of my favorite cities). The imposing, surreal cathedral is one of those rare feats of architecture that can enrich your daily life (if you are lucky enough to live in Barcelona) and change your perspective about the world (if you are lucky enough to visit). It is hard to believe that a municipal improvement to the Barcelona rail infrastructure would really be allowed to threaten the monument, but stranger things have happened. Let's hope any negative impact is eliminated.Also, if you can get to Philadelphia this week or weekend, be sure to check out machines machines machines machines machines machines - the new staging of the original work being put up by GS and company. And if you have interest in going next Saturday, I am going to try and make a trip down from NYC.
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One of the amazing things about the Sagrada Familia to me is that it looks like a sand castle. This fragile beauty is amazing when it comes in such a monolithic package and is paired with the colorful stained glass.
Love the tidbits, useful stuff! I'm glad to know how much a racehorse pees, for example, because that will be good bar- (or bath-) room talk at some point in my life, I'm sure.
the older side of sag fam (as my barcelonan pal manel calls it), in your top picture, represents nature's bounty and supposedly is meant to look vaginal. it is sooo amazing. i remember touring the steeples and seeing that broken soda bottles made up some of its mosaics, which was mindblowing - talk about a people's cathedral. did you know it won't be completed in our lifetimes?
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