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Santiago Calatrava, the world-renowned architect, was standing on a street corner the other day, gazing up at the grandest train station New York has built in the past century. High above the plaza of the new World Trade Center, welders were working on platforms suspended between the massive ribs of an arresting steel structure. “They will start mounting glass very soon,” Calatrava said. The most important project of his career was nearing completion — at long last and great cost, to both the government and his reputation. Calatrava had designed the terminal to evoke a bird taking flight. But after years of delays and budget revisions, it was preparing to spread its wings beneath the weight of an unflattering superlative: “the world’s most expensive train station.”
As they say about anything Calatrava designs and gets built, it becomes an instant tourist sight for any city! Well worth the extra money to get built, as good architecture always pays for itself!
That Calatrava designed lakeside museum he designed in Milwaukee, isn't that enough of a reason now to visit Milwaukee? Just for that and that only!
As they say about anything Calatrava designs and gets built, it becomes an instant tourist sight for any city! Well worth the extra money to get built, as good architecture always pays for itself!
That Calatrava designed lakeside museum he designed in Milwaukee, isn't that enough of a reason now to visit Milwaukee? Just for that and that only!
You're right ...but NYC hardly needs another draw. As a crumudgeon its hard for me to applaud this too hard. Yes I realize the great lasting monuments always have cost issues, or leaks, or whatever, but sometime a little Value Engineering can make a project better and I think that can the the case here.
It's a giant eye of Horus, complete with eyelashes. Which can be viewed in plan, complete with almond shaped slit aimed at the sky, or head-on in N/S elevations.
Next to the sign of Typhon outlines in the plumb façades that are foreshortened to pyramid faces when looking from up close to the base of the 'Freedom' Tower. And the hypercube symbolism in the adjacent memorial.
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