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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
VENICE - Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava defended his bridge today from the critics. The bridge in Venice is a work that breaks with the architecture of the city being the first bridge constructed in 125 years. The bridge has been baptized as the Constitution Bridge. This is the fourth bridge that goes over the Grand Canal and while some approve of it others criticize it for its high cost. Those...
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The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Santiago Calatrava's new bridge for Venice Originally uploaded by FrizzText. And of course, all kinds of people hate it. It's a Calatrava. It was too expensive. It isn't even accessible to the handicapped (and I'm not sure how they...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
· Rent Wars: Rent and lease complaints by tenants spike [The Real Deal] · Wild horses couldn't drag us away...from The Renwick's sales office! [NYDN] · The longest article on Santiago Calatrava in the history of the universe [NYer] ·...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The building that refuses to die...hasn't! The Downtown Express reports: "Santiago Calatrava’s stacked townhouse cubes may not have come tumbling down after all. Despite reports earlier this year that Seaport developer Frank Sciame was looking to unload the 80 South...
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Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
And now, a look at what's happening elsewhere in the Curbed Nation. 1) The value engineering reaper again descends upon New York's future PATH Station at the World Trade Center, designed by celebrated Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The newest dilution'...
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The Real Estate (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
From the latest New Yorker 's profile of architect Santiago Calatrava, by Rebecca Mead: For Calatrava, who is one of the world’s most successful architects, sketching with watercolors is an essential part of his creative process. He does not work with a computer or with drafting equipment; each of his buildings begins with a sheaf of paint-dappled pages. His archive in Switzerland includes more than...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
While the Port Authority struggles to put together a new timetable for the completion of the World Trade Center, Downtown Express unearths a 2007 engineering study commissioned by a pair of Lower Manhattan agencies that claims Santiago Calatrava's (can we...
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The Real Estate (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
With The Times giving details today on the changes being considered to the Santiago Calatrava-designed PATH hub, we caught up with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver out at the Democratic National Convention in Denver to get his reaction to the news that the Port Authority may put columns in the signature main hall of the station, which was to be open. Mr. Silver did not take a firm position either way,...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
After months of financial concerns about constructing the transit hub at the World Trade Center as designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Port Authority appears to be giving up a "key element" of the design, according to the NY Times . Calatrava had designed a "vast underground mezzanine free of columns," but that is expensive and complex. The architect, who already revised the design, believes it can...
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A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Santiago Calatrava's vision for the transit hub at Ground Zero may be in jeopardy. He thinks that it can be built on time and on budget, but the Port Authority may scrap parts of the plan, including the vaulting spaces underground that would make construction of other portions of the Ground Zero project more daunting and technologically challenging. The above-ground portion of the Calatrava hub
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Santiago Calatrava may love New York, but New York does not love Santiago Calatrava back. Already suffering from the blow of having his visionary tower at 80 South Street pass on to the great beyond, the Spanish starchitect continues...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect, speaks six languages, and although his English is less than perfect, its wrinkles only heighten the allure of his pronouncements. “Though I love the arts with all my heart--paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music--and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can . . .
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Plans to inaugurate a controversial new bridge by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava over the Grand Canal in Venice have been scrapped amid a blazing public row, with one critic saying that it “looks like a lobster”.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
"The final insult was yesterday heaped on the bridge Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has built over the Grand Canal in Venice when its official opening was cancelled. Their decision will avert a demonstration planned by opponents of the project, and remove the opportunity for another round of media comment on the cost overruns and repeated delays that have marked the bridge's construction."...
