The chief architect working on the Sagrada Familia Cathedral leads protests over Barcelona's plans to build a bullet train tunnel less than 2 meters from Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece. guardian
yeah they have several years with this, and the whole AVE train track which actually passes like less than a meter away from the foundations of the sagrada familia, and its a huge mess cause involves politicians not only from BCN but from a wider range, from madrid (is the bullet train who will connect MADRID to France passing thru Barcelona) to European authorities of mobility, to tourism authorities (sagrada familia as a huge tourism atractor)...its a huge mess
I don't know, this sounds like political posturing to me.
I think this guy, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, lost a lot of credibility when he signed off on the decision to finish the Sagrada Familia in reinforced concrete instead of stone.
credibility? it was Gaudí himself who started using reinforced concrete in some parts of the temple in the 1920s!
and all this have absolutely nothing to do with politics.. people in front of the Sagrada Familia have no remarkable political links, they are a conglomerate of christian lunatics and architectural pirates, who don't pay too much attention either to society or academical circles... they live in their private world, which basically revolves around this temple and not much else...
the train thing, on the other hand is just common sense, even if you tunnel with all preventions you don't take chances like this just for saving a extra km of lines... its just plain stupid (but then, both the left politics now on charge of the city (Barcelona), the nation (Catalonia) and the state (Spain -always the same party) have the same responsibility as those who were in charge when the AVE itinerary was planned some years ago (the right politics in Catalonia, and in Spain -though then they were different parties-)
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yeah they have several years with this, and the whole AVE train track which actually passes like less than a meter away from the foundations of the sagrada familia, and its a huge mess cause involves politicians not only from BCN but from a wider range, from madrid (is the bullet train who will connect MADRID to France passing thru Barcelona) to European authorities of mobility, to tourism authorities (sagrada familia as a huge tourism atractor)...its a huge mess
I don't know, this sounds like political posturing to me.
I think this guy, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, lost a lot of credibility when he signed off on the decision to finish the Sagrada Familia in reinforced concrete instead of stone.
credibility? it was Gaudí himself who started using reinforced concrete in some parts of the temple in the 1920s!
and all this have absolutely nothing to do with politics.. people in front of the Sagrada Familia have no remarkable political links, they are a conglomerate of christian lunatics and architectural pirates, who don't pay too much attention either to society or academical circles... they live in their private world, which basically revolves around this temple and not much else...
the train thing, on the other hand is just common sense, even if you tunnel with all preventions you don't take chances like this just for saving a extra km of lines... its just plain stupid (but then, both the left politics now on charge of the city (Barcelona), the nation (Catalonia) and the state (Spain -always the same party) have the same responsibility as those who were in charge when the AVE itinerary was planned some years ago (the right politics in Catalonia, and in Spain -though then they were different parties-)
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