“Blue Column, Sagrada Familia” — A blue column lit by early evening light passing through colored glass windows, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.
We visited the Gaudi-designed Sagrada Família in Barcelona last summer. The place was so visually striking that I honestly haven’t quite known what to do with the photographs, but I started digging into them recently. We are familiar with photographs of the remarkable exterior of the structure, but the interior is anrguably even more amazing. The amount of detail is nearly incomprehensible, and it is profoundly affected by the light coming through myriad stained glass windows and moving across its features…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2024/05/05/blue-column-sagrada-familia/
Unpopular opinion: Antoni Gaudi was a terrible architect whose designs are frightful, the opposite of eye candy. Been there, seen the #SagradaFamilia twice - decades apart. So it will finally be done, complete after 140 years and long after Gaudi’s death. Structure wasn’t even properly permitted until 2019. #architecture
Et enfin on est redescendus a pieds jusqu'à la Sagrada Família.
Tu marches tranquillou dans une rue sans vraiment d'intérêt et là, paf, au croisement, elle surgit sans prévenir
De près ça écrase énormément les distances et c'est de loin qu'on se rend le mieux compte de l'ampleur du truc.
Hâte d'être demain pour visiter l'intérieur #barcelona#sagradafamilia
Barcelona's Sagrada Familia inaugurates four new towers.
The basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí has been 141 years in the making, but it has come one step closer to completion with the blessing of the four Towers of the Evangelists.
The four completed towers symbolize the Evangelist authors of the Bible’s canonical Gospels. The tallest tower, which represents Christ, will follow in 2026. Some doubts remain as to whether or not the construction timeline can stick to its scheduled completion by the end of that year, which...