The Brier Patch

Monday, October 16, 2006

Ben Harper and the chruch

We saw a Ben Harper concert last friday!!! (Oct 6) Man, that was wicked cool!!
There were over 1000 people there, I think, and the place was packed. Some awesome dancing, and great music.

Earlier that day, I went on a special tour of Sagrada Familia given by the head architect of construction. The Sagrada Familia is a large ornate church and is supposed to be Gaudi's crowning achievement. He worked on its design for the last 10 years of his life but the project did not complete construction before he died. It has now been over 100 years under construction. The following pictures give you just a tidbit of what it was like to climb up into the scaffolding of this amazing work of art. Engineers and Architects, eat your hearts out.

More info about the actual church: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_familia

One of the towers of the newer facade, taken from the highest point of scaffolding, high in the air.

The four towers together, with the rebar cages of the new vaults in the forground. Note the crazy angles of these cages. All of the angles of the structure are done with straight lines. Members that seem to be curved are geometrically formed with combinations of lines in 3D.

The crazy scaffolding inside the church

A view from the top down onto the roof of part of the building, and the street far below on the right.

4 Comments:

  • At 2:31 PM, Blogger Crypto said…

    It is so cool that you were able to climb to the top of the scaffolding! I would love to see some more pictures.

     
  • At 3:44 AM, Blogger bento said…

    I like the fact that the top of the spires appears to have bunches of grapes on top of them! Oh, I do love architecture.

    Plus, Ben Harper! I would ask you to tell me more about that, but there's no way to really describe a concert. I am jealous though... ;)

     
  • At 11:03 PM, Blogger annika fox said…

    Hey, I want to eat my heart out too! I studied it in art history; can I?

     
  • At 6:55 AM, Blogger Francesca said…

    Well, I don't want to intentionally encourage jealousy... but I think the Sagrada Famillia has something for everyone to appreciate (art history, math, materials, geology, architecture, history.. etc...).

    It is definetly something worth seeing, if you come to Barcelona!

    also, more posts are coming... I'm just slow, and so is my internet connection.

     

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