Sagrada Família Hits Highest Point

Sagrada Família has reached its highest point in construction after more than 140 years!

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Yagmur Baydır
February 23, 2026

Dear PA reader,

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família has reached its highest point, bringing the long-unfinished basilica closer to completion. In Riyadh’s historic core, Snøhetta’s Qasr AlHokm Metro Station redefines public infrastructure through a luminous steel canopy and a deeply buried garden.

In a reflective PA Talks conversation, Eduardo Neira shares how AZULIK’s architecture dissolves the boundary between building and landscape, arguing for a slower, more sensorial practice rooted in craft, ritual, and ecology.

On the experimental side of practice, Marc Fornes’ Louis Vuitton Terminal 2 installation transforms an airport concourse into a flowing structural landscape, while advances in underwater 3D concrete printing hint at a future where architecture is no longer confined to dry land, opening new possibilities for construction in some of the planet’s most challenging environments.

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