Pre-fab niceties
Oh Santiago, you are such a great Calatrava… And you make such beautiful structures.
Why can’t American developers realize that good design, is KEY to the future…
“Let the sunshine in”
L’Umbracle in valencia by Santiago Calatrava.
Photograph by queencashmere” on flickr.
Photograph by queencashmere” on flickr.
The following image found on the architecture site Channelbeta.com
Law Library of the University of Zurich “Rechtswissenschaftlichen”
by Santiago Calatrava
Above Photos by: Gianluigi D’Angelo; Di Benigno Roberta Patrizia
Another nice shot of the same library.
Photograph from Tony_V on Flickr.
Calatrava Bridge in Reggio Nell’Emilia , Italy.
Photos by Mirko Cassanelli on flickr
Pedestrian Bridge in Bilbao Spain:
These are not even his best examples.
Spend some time looking into his work.
Its simple and graceful, complicated and difficult, modernist yet not necessarily masculin.
In some ways Zaha Hadid and Santiago are in the same Canon.
Beautiful work for certain.
Oh loord, this is just awesome.
A Beautiful Tree House RESTAURANT!!!
In Auckland New Zealand…
From Dwell Magazine.
seriously this is HOT!!!
This is an awesome sight.
as an concept for a pool its beautiful.
Now the rest of this house, is another L.A style modernist nightmare.
neither form nor function, slabs of concrete for the sole purpose of being slabs of concrete, etc etc.
Every nightmarish pseudo modernist cliché amalgamated into a compendium of curves, rectangles, cubes and cylinders + cement, glass and metal.
what a horrible place to even imply living in.
I can just imaging taking off clothes and shoes and letting them fall on the ground, walking away, only to come back and putting clothe back on and finding a closet or tiny room where I can hide to feel less cold in my heart. Aarg.
Further it is a great example of an immense waste of every possible natural resource, starting from the land on which it is built to the enormous amount of energy necessary to heat/cool the thing, to light it, to water it, etc etc.
This actually gets a notice for being a horror.
Double bleh.