The Sagrada Familia is set to “finish” in time for the centenary of Gaudí’s death in 2026. Except for a humungous great staircase that even to long-time SG fans seems bombastic. Having just gobbled up Gijs Van Hensbergen’s biography of the architect, we find it hard to imagine Gaudí would have been up for displacing around 1000 families & small businesses. When he presented the plans in 1915 the site was farmland.
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