Unfinished Business
by Lisa SonneThe current head architect, Jordi Bonet (whose father worked alongside Gaudí as his assistant), says the Sagrada Familia is just over 50 percent complete now. There are domes, vaults, towers, and aisles that future visitors can watch being built. He says he is often asked by worried people when the building will be done. Gaudí was often asked the same question almost a century earlier and replied, “My client is not in a hurry.” No answer could be more appropriate.
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