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Jean-Luc Kokel's avatar

There is a small but symbolic missing, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It could be that its completion by now... we don't really know, but it could mark a turning point in architecture, a return to decoration after a long period of buildings that were far too refined.

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Andy @Revkin's avatar

Nice piece. More impressive than cathedrals themselves is the process of cathedral building, which spans generations, technologies. I’ve led to Wikipedia as a 21st-century cathedral of knowledge. https://revkin.substack.com/p/why-wikipedia-works-even-for-climate

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