Word: sagrada
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...chocolate like we’d never tasted before. Our consumption of our drinks was only interrupted by exclamations of delight. Whatever it was, it was thick and rich, but somehow decidedly not-chocolatey. Our bellies and our sense of superiority satisfied, we soldiered on to the Sagrada Familia...
Both parties recognize that the Spanish family isn't easily harnessed to campaign rhetoric. Like architect Antoni Gaudí's signature Barcelona cathedral, the Sagrada Família - where the spires share space with cranes and scaffolding in a never-ending bid to complete the original 1883 design - the Spanish family is both sacred and a confounding work in progress...
...Nina are moving back to New York City, looking for a new home "right next to the site." Architects like to keep a close eye on things. By the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was living full time on the construction site of his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. For the record, it's still unfinished. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York
...also been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...
Many architects would say Orwell was talking through his hat. Le Corbusier described the school Gaudí designed as part of the Sagrada Família project - its roof an ingenious, wave-like structure - as "a masterpiece." Norman Foster has called Gaudí's methods revolutionary. Spain's best-known architect, Santiago Calatrava, shows Gaudí's influence in his use of trencadís (broken ceramic tiles) as decoration, his use of arches, and his primary source of inspiration - nature...