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
#2The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including plans, scale models etc. were destroyed in a fire caused by anarchists when the Civil War started. The story is more complex than just incompetent bureaucracy.
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#3The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including pla…
I would listen to a podcast episode or read a book about this. It sounds like an interesting story!
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#4The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including pla…
I would listen to a podcast episode or read a book about this. It sounds like an interesting story!
99% Invisible recently did an episode about its history: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/la-sagrada-familia-2/
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#5The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including pla…
I would listen to a podcast episode or read a book about this. It sounds like an interesting story!
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Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#6"Bureaucrats file paperwork! On other news..."
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#7Yeah, 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.
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#8Nice. I went to la sagrada familia today and this becomes hacker news top post.
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#9Yeah, 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.
Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
#10That’s still faster than getting a permit in San Francisco.