Calatrava Strikes a Chord

 
This summer, Jerusalem inaugurated a new bridge by Santiago Calatrava that will be the centerpiece of a planned light-rail system connecting the Old City to the sprawling neighborhoods just over its walls. The serpentine, cable-stayed structure is a stone’s throw away from the Central Bus Station in a dusty, car-clogged intersection, where its gleaming white [...]

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An Interview with Santiago Calatrava

An Interview with Santiago Calatrava

Photo © Luca Vignelli

Santiago Calatrava fulfills an astonishing variety of roles in a specialized age: engineer, architect, sculptor, artist, builder, husband, father. The Spanish-born architect Calatrava and his wife Robertina live and work in an elegant white villa beside Zurich’s Lake Zurichsee. On a spring day, he and Record editor-in-chief Robert [...]

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What Would Jesus Build? Ripcurl?

November 10, 2008 by ocvoice

Editor’s note: Late Monday night the Huntington Beach City Council passed the Ripcurl project with modifications, including a 385 unit limit as proposed by city staff for the 3.8 acre site, with 50 percent on site affordable housing provided for moderate income levels (50 percent low income housing provided off site) [...]

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