Sagrada Familia Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi, Photos, Architect, Location, Picture

Sagrada Familia Barcelona : Antoni Gaudi Architecture

Guide to famous Barcelona Building by Antoni Gaudi, Spain, Europe

1 Oct 2012 Sagrada Familia Multimedia Show Sound and light show at this famous Antoni Gaudi building: Project by Moment Factory. The first sound and light spectacle to be projected on the complex façade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Ode à la vie - Project by Moment Factory. The first sound and light spectacle to be projected on the complex façade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The 15 minute multimedia show presented was within La Mercè Festival in Barcelona this weekend. photos © Adrian Welch The inspiration for the show was to realise Antonio Gaudi’s dream for the Sagrada Familia façade to be full of colours. 18 Aug 2011 Sagrada Familia Photos Photos of this major Antoni Gaudi building from Summer 2011: photos © Adrian Welch 20 Apr 2011 Sagrada Familia Fire A fire has destroyed original feature of the Sagrada Familia by architect Antoni Gaudi. Reports estimate that 1500 people were evacuated in arson attack. Tourists were hurriedly evacuated from Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica after an arson attack destroyed part of the original work of its eccentric architect, Antoni Gaudi. A local man reportedly set the blaze after walking into the sacristy, spraying it with a flammable liquid and setting fire to the priests' robes stored there, reports the Arts Journal. More details re the fire online soon. photo © Adrian Welch Sagrada Familia Church of the Holy Family northeast Barcelona 1884 Antoni Gaudí, Architect photos © Adrian Welch Literally 'Sacred Family' this church is the most striking and largest of all Antoni Gaudi buildings. Photos of building exterior - western entrance: photos © Adrian Welch Sagrada Familia architect: Antoni Gaudi Probably the most stunning piece of Spanish architecture, a wild and inventive building. Gaudi could be described as a surrealist architect and his work has some resonance with the work of Surrealist artist Salvador Dali. Sagrada Familia uses caricatures in stone to portray the story of Christianity but its flamboyance has made it a symbol for the city as a whole. Gaudi frequently uses organic elements on the top of his spires, shaped like cloves crossed with the crucifix they are powerfully sculptural and very distinctive. Antoni Gaudi is often bracketed as one of the key European organic architects. In the Sagrada Familia building the architect evokes nature as well as Biblical scenes: in the photos you can see many of the columns fan out like plants for example. More images of Sagrada Familia, Barcelona: photos © Adrian Welch More Sagrada Familia images available upon request: photos 1280x1024 pixels, 72dpi Sagrada Familia to use Scottish Stone Stone from Clashach Quarry, Moray, is being used to complete parts of Sagrada Familia by Gaudi in Barcelona: a ceiling and a main staircase. Sandstone from the quarry of Moray Stone Cutters has already been used in the construction of the National Museum of Scotland and the extension to the National Gallery in Edinburgh, as well as the 9/11 memorial in New York. The contract will involve up to five tonnes of sandstone, with blocks as large as one metre cubed, being transported to Spain each month for the next two years to the temple site where construction work first began in 1882. The quarry secured the contact after Moray Stone Cutters supplied sandstone for work on the nearby Barcelona Cathedral in 2005 Jul 2006 More Sagrada Familia Photos - from 1991: photos © Isabelle Lomholt The image on the left is the delicate sculpture on the eastern frontage to Sagrada Familia. The other three show the western entry with more strenuous Gaudi sculpting Sagrada Familia - Photos photo © Isabelle Lomholt

Key Antoni Gaudi buildings in Barcelona

Casa Batllo
Passeig de Gracia, Eixample, Barcelona
1906
Antoni Gaudi, Architect

photo © Adrian Welch

Casa Mila - La Pedrera
Passeig de Gracia, Eixample, Barcelona
1910
Antoni Gaudi, Architect

photo © Adrian Welch

Park Guell
north Barcelona
1914
Antoni Gaudi, Architect

photo © Adrian Welch

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News re Antoni Gaudi Buildings in Barcelona
UNESCO has added four Barcelona buildings by architect Antoni Gaudi to its list of World Heritage sites: the Nativity Façade and crypt of the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo, the crypt of Colonia Güell and Casa Vicens.
Other Barcelona buildings by Antoni Gaudi - Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila - have been listed since 1984.

Sagrada Familia Barcelona : Photos © Adrian Welch



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