Sagrada Familia’s Wild Stairway Controversy
#shorts #barcelona #sagradafamilia #churcharchitecture
Do you agree with the architect’s plan to complete Gaudi’s designs?
Sources:
https://www.catalannews.com/highlights/item/sagrada-familia-stairways-plan-threatens-eviction-for-up-to-3000-people?category_id=32
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/sagrada-familia-nears-completition-towers-crowned
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I believe the church owns the land, they've been collecting rent on those buildings to fund the construction. They've also been looking at plans that don't level both blocks, though imo, that's the best looking design.
The money involved should be used for a useful purpose, like, I don't know, helping people to eat, get clean water, useful education, kind treatment of animals, etc. Aren't churches closing left and right from lack of participation? So we need another one??
150 homes and 3,000 people?! So that means thay each home has 20 people living in them on average. That's obviously incorrect. Why didn't you engage your brain before claiming that.
Ugliest scariest demonic thing I’ve ever seen🙏🏻🎚😳
fuck this church
The people living there got a cheap deal to live there, now they want us to pay for them to move somewhere else. Total rip off for other tax payers
How can 150 homes house 3,000 people?
3000 people in 150 homes?! 20 people per household?? Did the video creator not do his research or is Spain really at 3rd world poverty overcrowding levels?
The people who get a cheap agreement then complains about the limits of it should be actually fined for libel.
150 residences but 3000 people that doesn’t add up
So every home had 20 people living in them?? So the construction will end in 2026 too? Both can’t be true.
When the plans were originally drawn up, nobody could have known. Some are saying they may have to knock down the cathedral and start again on a greenfield site. To be confirmed.
I've been there and it feels lowkey tight near the church. But demolishing 2 city blocks for some staircase is kinda extreme. I think they should make a new plan
No, it shouldnt be build. Life is more valuable than stones.
I'm from Barcelona and I honestly don't give a shit. The city it's already fucked up
Demolishing homes to put up a decorative flourish is par for the course for the Catholic Church. When it happens though I suggest the stairs be named, The Stairs of The Victims. The City Council can pass an ordinance that anyone wishing to protest Catholic Malfeasance can do so with impunity from the stairs.
The eu will just fill up those homes with immigrants anyways so who cares bull doze it
You are a lifesaver
Thank you! 😭
Gau-DEE.
El govern franquista va permetre la construcció dels pisos on no tocava, es pensaven que no l’acabarien i que s’abandonaria el projecte.
The Barcelona government when they have to solve a problem they caused themselves: 🤯🤯🤯🤯
A xente que comprou eses pisos sabía que tiñan fecha de caducidade, por eso tamén eran asequibles pra a zona que era, cando un firma un contrato ou se lle da unha palabra e pra tomala enserio e facerse cargo, se non se cumple con iso aquí vale todo
A catholic church blowing away money in a building instead of actually doing charity work and planning to remove people from their houses… Sounds right
One of the most overrated buildings IMHO. And the planned ramps look even weirder.
Madness utter madness, God does not need monuments, he wants your heart.
Soviet Microdistrict vs usa suburbia
It looks like both blocks next to it in the other direction are just parks. Why don't they move the church over to one of those, and then build the staircase on the other two?
You can't expect to buy a home at a heavy discount in land that you don't even own and were warned several times over the years that they'd be demolished and then complain when they're to be demolished.
It's as if you got a rental car and then wanted to keep it and pretended to be the owner when the time to return it came.
Ah yeah 150 homes equals 3000 people lmao
I think they wouldn’t go for it. I’d be for it though. No doubt. Maybe it would open up some new skate spots.
I visited there 10 years ago. The stairs are not needed, really. It's amazing as it is. One could wait until severa huge meteorites comes crashing down on those two blocks.
TBH we've destroyed plenty of homes to do much worse things like widen roads and build hotels. Finishing a massive art project is actually a pretty good reason in the grand scheme of things
Is that a church cathedral or a castle?
For a fairytale. 🤦♂️
It's a wonderful project and I spent hours taking it all in. But I have to wonder if it will be finished by a generation of people with scant belief in the Abrahamic religions.
All i want to say is Do it for the architecture beauty. And it's been in the works for a long time now time to finish it all not the base part do all
If the city is willing to replace the peoples homes for them then I’d be for it.
Absolutely not. If he didn’t buy the land he has no claim to it. Should he have a claim to it, why on earth are the buildings there?? Also, evicting the congregants to build the church?
Actually, it would be great, my home is right in front of that, so it would give a great view xd
As a Catalan from Barcelona, I don't think they will remove the blocks.
It looks finished to me, why does it need a staircase and how would that work on flat ground?
They've been doing this all this time they might as well do it 😂
20 people live in each home??
All those houses are all airbnb houses anyways.
Many immoral people putting a staircase over people in these comments !!
People are just saying that because they’re against Christianity. they obviously don’t want to see this holy temple being finished.
the math doesnt math, demolish 150 homes, displace 3000 people. thats 20 people per home
its a shame that buildings are so close to the church, it distracts the view original architect envisioned
when stairs are being build, it would nice to also consider larger area, if it needs green parks etc