Words cannot describe the works of Antoni Gaudi.

Intended as a Roman Catholic basilica, Gaudi was assigned this project in 1884. He spent 40 years especially the last 15 years of his life working on just this one building, dying in 1926. The thing is, he not only anticipated that it won’t be finished in his lifetime, but projected it’ll take a few hundred years more!

Thanks to computers nowadays, it will be completed in 2026. Yes, that’s not a typo – even with today’s technology his ideas still take an incomprehensible amount of time to realise.

This photo is flipped 180°. In order to resolve the complex load transfers, he hung bags of lead to strings and worked out his geometry upside down.

The studio which he worked, located underneath the church.