Mark Burrey and others were brought in to reverse engineer Gaudi's models, which were now piles of shards.
"Barcelona has Gaudi, Chicago has Frank Lloyd Wright and Glasgow has the unmistakable Art Nouveau magic of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, " she said.
Other landmarks are also visible from the 273-room Grand Marina, including the Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia cathedral, which looks like a gigantic sand castle.
The church has been the focus of much controversy since architect Antoni Gaudi took over the project in 1883, one year after construction began.
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Still unfinished over 130 years since construction started, Antoni Gaudi's designs have been given a boost through advanced software more typically used in aeronautical projects.
The Catalan capital is still a city best enjoyed from outside the city center, thanks to some of its whimsical architecture, courtesy of Antoni Gaudi .
It was tycoons, not politicians, who built Barcelona into Spain's first industrial city, as they built the eccentric Antoni Gaudi mansions that today help to draw its ever-multiplying tourists.
Using advanced design software typically used in auto and airplane design, they were able to figure our how to model the advanced shapes and surfaces that Gaudi's avant garde plans demanded and building continued.
So for example there was a surrealist philosopher called Francesc Pujols, who was a personal friend of Antonio Gaudi and a personal friend of Salvador Dali, and had a major influence on both those people as they did on him.
Though the building has had many enemies over the years (even the Catholic Church, to which Gaudi devoted much of his ascetic life while working on the basilica, did not consecrate the building until last year) it has survived and thrived.
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