Gaudì Quotes
Gaudí quote 7
When objections were raised as to the extended completion date of the Sagrada Familia, Gaudí said:
"Don´t worry, my client isn´t in a hurry"
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In December 1881 electric lighting was established with 15 streetlights Barcelona on Paseo de Colon being turned on. The Spanish Electricity Company had collaborated with engineer Thomas J. Dalmau. However just a year before, Joseph Sarramalera Aleu, engineer and director of an industrial company, had presented another project to the Spanish Electric Company, a most ambitious and comprehensive plan, which was never done.
Sarramalera commissioned Antonio Gaudi, whom he met at the School of Architecture. Gaudí and Sarramalera had worked side by side on an electric tramway project that would connect the door of Peace with the gardens of Villa Arcadia in Montjuïc. Gaudi, who in 1878 had already made a draft gas lamps that were installed in the Place Royale and Palace Square, envisioned a huge lanterns over twenty feet high adorned with the names of famous admirals as Llúria Catalans. It also could read names of major battles such as Artaqui or Philadelphia, with heraldic shields.
Gaudi drew up incredible plans placing his designs all around the city. His first streetlight was placed at the beginning of the road Can Tunis to climb Montjuic, the second at the end of the then nonexistent Gran Vía "C" which opened much later and received the name of Garcia Morato. The third was at the end of the Ramblas, just where in 1888 Cayetano Buigas Monravà built the monument to Columbus. The next was in front of the square of the Duke of Medina, where he had the cast iron monument to Admiral Galceran Marquet, by the architect Francis D.
Another lamp was at the end of the street of Simon Oller, who is an extension of Avignon. The next lamppost was nonexistent at the end of Via Laietana. The seventh lamp appears, where later was the powerhouse of the port and the eighth, on the site then occupied the Commercial Deposit.
Unfortunately the plans were never approved, something common to Gaudi's work as his ideas pushed boundaries and were often badly recieved by certain members of the public. There are however other lamps that Gaudi designed, some on Passeig de Gracia and a couple in Plaza Real.
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