BARCELONA, Spain — With its soaring but impossibly slender columns and masonry that resembles heavy frosting, Antonio Gaudí’s unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia seems as if it might suddenly collapse on itself, like a surreal cake.
But the architect in charge of efforts to complete the church, Jordi Bonet, one of the most visited monuments in Spain, says the building is indeed threatened — by a train tunnel that, if built as planned, would be dug within a few feet of its foundations. “The project could cause irreparable damage to the Sagrada Familia,” said the architect, Jordi Bonet, 81, who leads a group of 20 architects. “The slightest shift could cause ceramics to fall from the vaults. It could provoke cracks.”
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oh no!!!! 😥
Noooooo!!!! 😥 I wa there 6 years ago… i remember how wonderful it was… 🙁
Gaudi has always been my favorite architect. His vision was always so otherworldly, and his architecture (seemingly) physically impossible.
I hope it can be saved!
what a gorgeous work of art