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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Calatrava Strikes a Chord
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An Interview with Santiago Calatrava
Posted in Architecture and Ideas, tagged History & Dream company on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]