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Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. [1]
Santiago Calatrava The Montjuïc Communications Tower ( Catalan : Torre de Comunicacions de Montjuïc , IPA: [ˈtorə ðə kumunikəsiˈonz ðə muɲʒuˈik] ), popularly known as Torre Calatrava and Torre Telefónica , is a telecommunication tower in the Montjuïc neighbourhood of Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain .
The Caja Madrid Obelisk (Spanish: Obelisco de la Caja, Columna de Calatrava or Obelisco de Calatrava) is an obelisk designed by Santiago Calatrava located in the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain. The monument—intended to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Caja Madrid [1] —was donated by the savings bank to the city of Madrid.
Fixing the problems was budgeted as 2.7 million euros in 2017, but who should do the fixing is disputed between the Calatrava studio and the builders (Dragados, Acciona and Promotora Punta Larga). The damage is non-structural but increases as time passes. A similar problem happens with Calatrava's Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain. The ...
Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated on 16 April 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last major component of the City of Arts and Sciences, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía , was inaugurated on 9 October 2005, Valencian Community Day .
L'Àgora, with the tennis configuration in 2013 Assut de l'Or Bridge and the L'Àgora are two parts of Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences complex. The building has a height of 70 m (230 ft) and occupies 5,000 m 2 of space with an open ground plan resembling a pointed ellipse about 88 m (289 ft) long and 66 m (217 ft) wide.
This design has been pioneered by the structural engineer Santiago Calatrava in 1992 with the Puente del Alamillo in Seville, Spain. In two of his designs the force distribution does not depend solely upon the cantilever action of the spar (pylon); the angle of the spar away from the bridge and the weight distribution in the spar serve to ...
In February 1999 the Parliament of Galicia held an international design competition for a cultural center on Mount Gaiás.The entrants were Ricardo Bofill, Manuel Gallego Jorreto, Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Cesar Portela, Santiago Calatrava, who later withdrew his proposal, and Eisenman ...