santiago calatrava
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Can You Guess How Much NYC Paid The Architect Of The Most Expensive Train Station On Earth?
The World Trade Center Transit Hub — AKA The (other) Oculus — has already gone down in history as the most expensive train station, ever. The grand total was $US4 billion, about twice what it was supposed to cost, and more than the skyscraper adjacent to it. But there might be another record-breaking figure associated…
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No One Knows What To Do With This 23m Deep Hole In Chicago
If you didn’t know what to look for, you might miss it completely. But from the air — or from Google Earth — it’s impossible to overlook: A gaping, 23m deep hole that has sat abandoned since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Why Cities Need To Stop Commissioning Calatrava’s Fish Skeletons
I remember the first time I saw a Santiago Calatrava bridge, a spinal column of calcium-white ribs snaking across a Spanish ravine. “That’s cool,” I thought. Then, a few years and a few thousand kilometres away, I saw another one. And another one. And another one.
