137 year building project

[themechanic]

Imagine a budget meeting today on a project like that. 'So, how long's this going to take? 137 YEARS!!!???'

 

[Fran Blacker]

Thought you were talking about NY subway system.

 

[davek]

I thought he was taking about a body shop with your car.

 

[Slap Stick]

I thought it was the Interstate highway system.
They started it in St. Charles, MO in 1956 and have been working on it every day since.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Here's the story....

https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/architecture/sagrada-familia.htm

 

[Fran Blacker]

Here's the story....

https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/architecture/sagrada-familia.htm

And ISIS would blow it to hell in a second.

 

[themechanic]

The first video tells how some of the models were smashed during the Spanish civil war by radicals of a different kind.