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Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by stan_rogers »

dmix wrote: post #9
dsparkman wrote: post #7

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

Yeah I was waiting for the article to explain why the building permit mattered until they mentioned the fee millions of tourists pay to go see it every day and it became obvious the city just wanted a piece of that. Why else would they demand $5.2M for a building permit.

Why should a church get a free ride?

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Post by dang »

stan_rogers wrote: post #11
dmix wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I was waiting for the article to explain why the building permit mattered until they mentioned the fee millions of tourists pay to go see it every day and it became obvious the city just wanted a piece of that. Why else would they demand $5.2M for a building permit.

Why should a church get a free ride?

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by jblow »

dmix wrote: post #9
dsparkman wrote: post #7

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

Yeah I was waiting for the article to explain why the building permit mattered until they mentioned the fee millions of tourists pay to go see it every day and it became obvious the city just wanted a piece of that. Why else would they demand $5.2M for a building permit.

Have you seen the building?? The picture at the top of the article is a small portion of the back. The thing is freaking giant.

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by Shivetya »

dmix wrote: post #9
dsparkman wrote: post #7

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

Yeah I was waiting for the article to explain why the building permit mattered until they mentioned the fee millions of tourists pay to go see it every day and it became obvious the city just wanted a piece of that. Why else would they demand $5.2M for a building permit.

My favorite picture from Wikipedia [1], simply put it is just an amazing work.

Article itself [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia#/media/Fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by dzdt »

The engineering work for Sagrada Familia was insanely clever. Gaudi build a scale model including accurate weights for the building materials, upside-down, out of strings and weights. That way he could design non-vertical pillars that branch like trees and where all the stresses were carried by compression through the stonework. It is really a marvel of pre-computer technical design!

[1] https://memetician.livejournal.com/201202.html

[2] https://criticalista.com/2012/08/16/gaudis-hanging-chain-mod...

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by clarkmoody »

dsparkman wrote: post #7

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

City: That's a nice, world-famous church you're building there. It would be a shame if something ... happened to it.

Classic city government thug move.

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by eddiezane »

Had the privilege of going after this past KubeCon EU (which was in Barcelona a few weeks ago). It was the most awe inspiring building I've ever seen. A true modern wonder. Wound up just sitting in the pews for a while taking it all.

I took some photos but they definitely don't do it anywhere close to justice.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hx2qwsc5yaXGPBfm8

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Post by [deleted] »

clarkmoody wrote: post #17
dsparkman wrote: post #7

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

City: That's a nice, world-famous church you're building there. It would be a shame if something ... happened to it. Classic city government thug move.

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