all the new bits of the sagrada familia are moulded concrete

whatever shapes the current builders design, closely following gaudi's original scheme of things, their brilliantly clever modern concrete moulding techniques can never look good against his traditional workers' original hand-carved stonework

this project could have kept an army of catalan masons in work for another century or more

it vexes me almost as much as real madrid's selling claude makelele to chelsea, or tony blair privatising the hospital oxygen supply

from the giddy staircases of the sagrada familia to that perplexingly late intrusion, torre agbar

 

on your right, ladies & gentleman ...

montserrat ... la rambla ... torre agbar ... the mediterranean !
 

there's a big tree at the end of the drive ...