The K2|Colònia Güell Crypt — The Fashion Floor Under Gaudí's Unfinished Church

The runway in episode 2 is not a Seoul hotel ballroom. It is Gaudí's unfinished church in an old mill town.

The Crypt of Colònia Güell sits in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, twenty kilometers west of Barcelona, on a hillside Eusebi Güell reserved for his factory workers. Construction stopped in 1914. What stands is the crypt, a UNESCO piece of the Works of Antoni Gaudí, with inclined columns and a dim interior that still reads as a laboratory for the Sagrada Família. Location notes for The K2 put a fashion show for the designer Jean-Paul Lafelt inside this building at the start of episode 2.

You reach it by FGC from Plaça Espanya to Colònia Güell and walk up through the brick colony. The crypt takes a ticket. The columns lean the way they did when the cameras lit a runway under them.

Stand at the back of the nave and look at the hyperboloid windows. The show is gone. The structure was never finished, and that is why it still works as a room.

Photo: Till F. Teenck, via Wikimedia Commons