[mehrdadn]

I... just can't wrap my head around this. Is it that they actually take that long with enough people, or they have too few people working on them?

[readams]

They're specifically using old-style techniques to build it, and doing a sort of fund-as-you-go structure where donations finance the construction. This is combined with the fact that the building is really complicated and every block has to be custom-carved into a unique shape.

There's also likely an element of not really wanting it to be done since the construction itself is a big part of the draw of the building for tourism.

[close04]

And yet the author of the present article would simply judge it by weight and say "with certainty" it must have taken only a fraction of the time.

[ALittleLight]

I hadn't heard of it, it seen pictures, until we went to see it in Spain. The building is absolutely mind boggling. The sort of thing that makes you proud to be a human.

When you see it, the timeline starts to make sense.

[teruakohatu]

Funding but also they are to an extent a giant work of art, adding more people does not produce a better work of art.

[goto11]

Funding has been the limiting factor, as far as I know. There have been long breaks where no work was being done, and it was damaged during the civil war. Also the building is immense and very detailed.

[ReptileMan]

The fact that Gaudi's original plans were lost in a fire don't help