Barcelona’s Sagrada Família took 144 years to finish. Now, Lego is inviting followers to recreate the enduring church brick by brick — albeit on a a lot smaller scale.
Adding to its assortment of miniature landmarks world wide — from New York City’s skyline and landmarks to the Eiffel Tower and Rome’s Trevi Fountain — Lego has unveiled the Sagrada Família set to mark the centenary of the loss of life of its architect, Antoni Gaudí.
Builders might be tasked with assembling 12,060 items, stacking 62 centimeters (24 inches) excessive to recreate a miniature mannequin of the world’s tallest church, which stands at 172.5 meters (566 ft). The mannequin additionally carries a hefty price ticket — $799.99, in response to the Danish toy firm.
Pre-orders can be found, however followers should wait till November 1 to get their palms on the set.
A key element of the design is the stained glass window impact, which echoes the vary of coloration shades filtering mild into the true basilica.
“Our goal was to honour Gaudí’s vision with the utmost respect, capturing the rhythm of the basilica’s construction, its extraordinary complexity and ambition, and translating that into an immersive building experience,” Lego’s Design Master, Rok Žgalin Kobe, stated in a press assertion revealed Thursday.
For many years, the Sagrada Família was thought-about unbuildable, attributable to its architectural complexities and the lack of Gaudí’s plans and fashions throughout 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. Generations of tourists grew to become accustomed to seeing clusters of cranes surrounding the positioning as development continued.
Work started on the church in 1882, following a design spearheaded by Gaudí, who determined the monumental construction would have 18 enormous, spindle-shaped towers, every symbolizing a distinct biblical determine — the 12 apostles, the 4 evangelists, the Virgin Mary and Jesus.
But when Gaudí died in 1926, solely an estimated 10%-15% of the Sagrada Família had been constructed, together with one transept, a crypt and among the apse wall.
The construction was lastly full in late February this 12 months, and Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to inaugurate the Tower of Jesus Christ on Wednesday — precisely 100 years after Gaudi’s loss of life.