There have been, are and will be many historical moments along the Sagrada Família’s path towards 2026, the year the Temple architecture is expected to be completed. And one of them has taken place this year that is about to finish: in 2019, the central towers grew so much that they are now taller than …
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When the Sagrada Família is completed in 2026, it will have an unusual number of towers for a basilica: eighteen. Six of them will be the central towers which we are currently building, while the others will be bell towers, four of which will be on the Glory façade, yet to be built. However, the …
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The construction of the pinnacles of the towers of the Evangelists was approached following the same idea as the project involving the central towers. A prefabrication and pre-assembly system at an outside work centre was chosen for the latter, due to the lack of room in the construction site and the difficulty of working at …
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The pinnacles, which are the top section of the towers, are always the most eye-catching, given their host of colours and symbolic elements. And the pinnacles on the towers of the Evangelists, which are modelled after the bell towers on the Nativity and Passion façades, are no exception. In fact, the fourth Temple album includes …
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At the Sagrada Família, Gaudí designed six central towers and dedicated four of them to the Evangelists, the men who told the story of Jesus’ life. In recent months, these towers have grown to 103.56 metres tall, and since last June up to ninth of thirteen levels they will eventually have can be seen. The …
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The core comprised of the staircase and lift inside the lantern of Jesus Christ is an example of the work with tensioned stone that has been carried out at the Temple since this technology was incorporated into the project and the construction of the central lanterns. DESCRIPTION OF THE CORE GEOMETRY The basic shape …
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The structural skeleton of the six central towers of the Sagrada Família is made up of a grid of lines, both horizontal and vertical. The vertical lines fall right where, on the outside, you see the arrises in Brazil blue granite on the tower of Mary and in red granite porphyry on the rest of …
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When we explain the project for the Sagrada Família, we often say it will have eighteen towers, putting the ones on the façades in the same sack as those in the centre of the Temple. However, although it is true this is the number of towers Gaudí had in his plans, there is a very …
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Despite the differences in the diameter, height and number of sides on each of the six central towers on the Sagrada Família, the system of dividing the construction into stone panels is the same. On all of them, the triangular windows overlap the level above and there are always three windows per level. However, there …
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Now that we’ve put in the bases of the four bridges that connect the central lanterns 85 metres above the Temple ground, we wanted to take advantage to explain their design and building system in more detail. At this 85-metre level, the towers of the evangelists are close to the beginning of the tower of …
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