Design
Barcelona's Famed Cathedral Finally Gets the Color It Wanted
Special-effects wizards used Antoni Gaudì's sketches to psychedelically animate the La Sagrada Familia.
La Sagrada Familia is impressive and all, looking like it was built over millennia by thousands of dripping candles. But with vast parts of the exterior as colorless as bleached coral, Barcelona's famed church just about screams for a splash of paint.
Catalan architect Antoni Gaudì intended his masterpiece to bear all sorts of joyous hues, but died in 1926 when the project was barely a quarter finished. However, he left behind colored sketches showing just how he wanted the monument to appear. The existence of those illustrations have allowed a Canadian entertainment studio to reimagine La Sagrada as it was supposed to be: awash in a polychromatic soup of reds, yellows and blues.