Great architectural art, outstanding world heritage, extraordinary craftsman spirit, forever master Gaudi —— this is the holy home hall in Barcelona, Spain, the only famous building in the world has not been completed in the world cultural heritage list. At 7:50 PM local time, the church lit a 12-pointed star on top of the second tower for the first time after the lighting ceremony, marking the completion of the tower. By design, the church will have 18 spires, half completed —— 9.
The church is the last work of Anthony Gaudi, built in 1882 for 139 years now. It covers an area of 4,500 square meters and can accommodate 14,000 people. It was originally expected to be completed in 2026, the 100th anniversary of Gaudi’s death, but the plan has been repeatedly delayed due to the outbreak and other reasons.
The spire towering into the clouds, is the competition between heaven and earth. When the tallest tower is built, the ultimate height will reach 172.5 meters, permanently changing the Barcelona skyline.
The construction of Shengjia Hall has experienced ups and downs, and the construction has stopped and stopped. In fact, it has become a good story: besides the war and other historical reasons, the craftsman spirit of striving for perfection is the key to the failure of the Shengjia Hall for more than a century. They are not “infrastructure crazy”, but slowly polished, not eager to achieve, must present Gaudi’s design perfectly.
Gaudi is the greatest master architect in Spanish history. He was born on June 25,1852, and died in a car accident in 1926. Spain, especially Barcelona in Spain, is very proud of having Gaudi, because he has won the great glory for it. Seven of Gaudi’s architectural works are listed as world cultural heritages by UNESCO, and 17 are listed as national cultural relics by Spain.
In 1882, when the construction began, the first architect was Gaudi’s teacher, Biar, not 30. After a year of construction, Bilyar resigned. At 31, Gaudi was given the chief architect to accompany the construction of the church until his last moment for 43 years; but in less than a quarter of his lifetime.
Gaudi is an architectural genius. His works not only bring a visual feast, but also behind the amazing modeling, with careful design logic and rational structural thinking, and melting art and technology in a furnace. Gaudi believes that “the straight lines belong to man and the curves belong to God”, and that the Holy House church combines the characteristics of Gothic architecture with the curves of the Art Nouveau style. In construction, the interior of the Holy House is like a dream forest, with stone pillars like dense trees, bifurcated branches protruding from the top of the column; the sun enters, colorful, brilliant… in the golden autumn of 2018, I had a Spanish cultural trip.
The highest state of life is art, and the highest state of art is faith. The extraordinary craftsman spirit, the East and the West are actually interlinked. For example, the Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, also a world heritage site, was excavated in 713 AD and took 90 years to complete.”The Buddha is a mountain, the mountain is a Buddha”, the Buddha statue is the world’s highest giant Buddha, in which the nose length of 5.6 meters —— is equivalent to the modern house two-story high.90 years nearly a century, how many generations of perseverance and continuous efforts! Such persistence is the most precious spirit of the craftsman spirit.
“Those who are crazy will work, and those who are crazy will have good skills.”Craftsmen make utensils, and the spirit of craftsmanship is not only about the manufacture of objects. They must have spirit, thought, culture, connotation, pursuit, creation, responsibility and responsibility. The miracle of Gaudi and the Holy Family Hall has a profound enlightenment and infinite enlightenment for us today.(Xu Xunlei)