Long before the psychedelic chimeras and pinnacles of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí, aged 26, designed an industrial hall for a workers’ cooperative. This sober cotton bleaching shed, now ...

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By 2026, La Sagrada Família will feature 18 towers of varying heights to represent Christianity’s most prominent religious figures—notably Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the four evangelists Mark ...

A nativity scene (center) is above the main doorway of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The cathedral, designed by Antoni Gaudi, was begun in 1882 and is expected to be completed in 2026.

When Antoni Gaudí began work on the Sagrada Familia cathedral in 1883, it was already a neo-Gothic work-in-progress; another architect had begun constructing it a year before. But Gaudí swiftly ...

Works on Antoni Gaudí's eye-popping Sagrada Família temple in Barcelona, which began in 1882, are slowly nearing completion. Until recently, the stated objective was to finish construction in ...

Antoni Gaudi was a devout Catholic and believed the construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica was his way to make amends with God for the sins of the modern world.

In recent years work on the Sagrada Familia has gathered speed. The Tower of Mary, eventually to be the second tallest of 18 teetering parabolic spires, reached its final height of 128m in ...

Gaudi's Barcelona: There's more to see than the Sagrada Familia. Antoni Gaudi’s architecture made Barcelona’s cityscape like no other. As a newly restored building of his gears up to open to ...

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí began working on the Sagrada Família in 1882. And by the centenary of his death, in 2026, the Roman Catholic basilica and most visited monument in Spain is finally ...

The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s landmark church designed by Antoni Gaudí, has been slapped a with a €36 million fine for lacking a building permit—136 years after construction began.

Under construction for 138 years and counting, the Sagrada Família is one of the most complex buildings ever conceived. Will robotic tools finally help finish it?