The glass cross lowered on to the top of the Sagrada Familia yesterday, Antoni Gaudí’s famous church, brought the maximum final height of the structure to 172.5m, 144 years after work began.   It is the tallest church in the world.   The tower stands majestically above Barcelona and is far more than just a construction project, often described as "the Bible in stone." Gaudí, a devout Catholic viewed his architectural craft as a form of religious devotion.   He designed a visu

Ghost Cities, by Siang Lu doesn't seem like a novel but rather a constructed labyrinth of the absurd where the map to provide the path is written in invisible ink. The story follows a disgraced film director and a low-level bureaucrat, navigating a landscape of "ghost cities"—vast, sprawling metropolitan areas in China built for millions but inhabited by almost no one. Lu wants us to look at empty buildings where the artificial becomes the only reality and characters navigate