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Gaudi's Masterpiece is Virtually Completed

By Michael S. Rose
Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is being 'virtually' completed for a new feature film.



(BARCELONA, Spain) — Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Sagrada Familia, is being completed for a new feature film soon to be released in Spain, and later in the U.S. The movie project was conceived by 38-year-old filmmaker Toni Meca, who spent the last five years “virtually” completing the extraordinary Barcelona church designed by the renowned Spanish architect. Gaudí (1852-1926) is recognized worldwide as one of the most original designers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. This church was by far, in the architect’s own opinion, his most ambitious project. It is also a posthumous testament to the faith of a man known as “God’s architect.”

Using sophisticated 3-D computer modeling techniques, Meca’s technical team, comprised of 150 highly-skilled architects, sculptors...

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