The first word that popped into my head when i saw the Sagrada Familia was 'grotesque'. The building is beyond huge, towers over the city, and is anything but delicate.
Up close and personal though, it was spectacular. The architecture is brilliant. If i recall correctly, in order to get the structure correct, Gaudi first built the model upside down and suspended it, to determine there the weights fall. I believe a model can be seen in the museum, which is in the basement of the church.
The inside is structured after trees, with the trunks as the pillars, and the weights distributed above, modeled after branches.
We saw the Sagrada Familia on 27th March 2008.
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