Raising the Towers of Sagrada Familia: Engineering the World’s Tallest Church | Blueprint
A build taking over 140 years finally nears completion, as the engineers and architects of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia attempt to raise the six central towers that will make it the world’s tallest church. Already dominating the city’s skyline, soaring over 100 metres tall and attracting 4.5 million visitors each year, the stone towers will push the church’s height above 170 metres.
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Never since seen style is a little far from truth. He worked in organic style but there were multiple great architects in that style for example Imre Makovecz.
i'm sorry but imo its one of the ugliest church ever
Spoiler alert
they cannot finish it completely. There are residential buildings that have taken part of the land that was needed to complete the whole building. It’s just the outside stairway, but it should have been grand and this documentary six years old.
It's not a church, it's a basilica.
Terrible, yes terrible editing
2 second shots
Jumping jumping around
get dizzy
that's all
You need time to see beauty with this camera movement no chance
Pure waste.
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It is my Life Desire that before i die…I hope to get the chance to See the Sagrada Familia..Come inside ..and Caress its stone interior…So i may, in my tiniest aspirations live inside the Dream of Gaudi, My Idol.❤❤❤
..after that, i may finally rest with a Smile to last forever!
I visited it when I was working in Spain in the 1990s and they'd already been working on it for over a hundred years, now 30 years later they're still at it!
Why? It's just a bunch of empty space. I'm just speaking from a practical perspective. People use emotion to bypass usefulness. Just think of all the people that could have been helped with the money used in going overboard on trying to be better than other churches. I'm pretty sure God couldn't care less about people being impressed with a building.
Unusual, but beautiful ? No, Disneyland type building 🤷🏰
tldr; it's planned to be FULLY completed by 2034, we hope…
The Sagrada Familia needs MORE SPIRES… More GEE-GAWS…s/
Great work! ❤
You just wait; Trump will build an even bigger church soon. Or he will give you an offer you can't refuse and move it to US.
More than a decade to build a church, meanwhile China has a space station. Good job Barcelona!! 👏👏👏
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The price of insanity.
No hairline fractures???
Tanto dinheiro gasto para quê? Com um terremoto vem tudo abaixo.
It’s great to watch a video like this without having to listen to metric system values spoken.
So many people are seduced by the story, the size, the tourist attraction, and don't see the enormous ugliness of this monstruous and pretentious building, that in its expression has nothing related to Christianity – the building 'reads' like satire. The eclectic components don't blend, are mutually exclusive, the proportions are all dissonant and don't answer mathematical integration and 'nesting', etc. etc. and the fin-de-siècle aesthetics are remarkably repulsive for anyone with a residu of taste.
Only subjective reaction? Just compare it with real churches and try to understand the underlying dynamics of the structures… like the great European cathedrals, or even the renaissance or baroque churches like St Pauls, St Pieter's basilica, or – something entirely different the Hagia Sophia or Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Gaudi's absurd design falls lamentably short in terms of aesthetics, expression, structure, proportion, execution. It is a very expensive and useless flop.
This is why I've turned my back on religion, with 10 million children that starve to death every year, this is how religion spends their resources
The 'Building the Giants' intro to this video is purely ludicrous! It makes me want to not even watch this video. Even though this video was posted in 2024, it was actually make in 2017, so the progress that is shown here is 8 years old. OK And the theatrical soaring music is just OVER THE TOP! This video is a disaster.
I'm 75 now and hope to sit inside the building before I die. I know I will weep but it will be worth it.
This building is an eyesore; it's just a tourist trap 🎉
There are many reactions here that sound like hyperbole. This church can't be that spectacular right?
Well, I've been there, and it is true. I've visited literally hundreds of famous churches, from Rome to Paris to Aachen to Addis Abeba. This one is the most spectacular off them all. you just have to see it to believe it.
BTW thank you for NOT calling it a cathedral, it is a minor basilica, not a cathedral. A lot of channels get this wrong.
Hey Gaudí, could you have made it less complicated? Holy Mother!