Santiago Calatrava

Dallas, Texas

Dallas' Margaret McDermott Bridge Finally Open to Pedestrians and Cyclists

Overdue and over budget, infrastructure for pedestrian and people on bikes is finally available on the Margaret McDermott Bridge in Dallas.

June 14, 2021 - WFAA

Dallas, Texas

As Cables on Dallas' Margaret McDermott Bridge Fail, State and City Play Blame Game

Santiago Calatrava has run into trouble over the maintenance of his bridge projects in the past—this time it looks like it's not his fault.

February 3, 2018 - Dallas Observer

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Five Years Later: Dallas' Iconic, Catalytic Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Santiago Caltrava designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, which is all you need to hear to understand the Texas-sized ambition of the project. Evaluating the bridge's success, five years after its opening, is more complicated than that.

March 27, 2017 - Dallas News

Gensler Spire Concept

A 2,000-Foot Skyscraper Imagined for the Site of Chicago's Infamous Spire

Global architecture firm Gensler is doing its job to get the ball rolling on the dormant former site of the Spire project designed by Santiago Calatrava.

June 9, 2016 - Curbed Chicago

Calatrava WTC Hub

A Review of Calatrava's World Trade Center Transportation Hub

There's still a construction fence around the World Trade Center transportation hub designed by Santiago Calatrava, and its not accessible from the street yet. Carol Berens shares a few photos and impressions.

May 4, 2016 - UrbDeZine

Chicago Spire

Chicago's Never Built Skyscraper—Now a Hole in the Ground and a Pile of Dirt

The high-water marks showing where the last boom broke under the pressure of the Great Recession are still visible in cities all over the country. The Chicago Tribune recently checked on a particularly poignant example in Chicago.

March 24, 2016 - Chicago Tribune

Calatrava WTC Hub

Mixed Reviews for Calatrava's WTC Transportation Hub—Now Open to the Public

A section of the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened to the public today. The project has already inspired controversy, and will likely continue to do so.

March 3, 2016 - The New York Times

Rio De Janeiro's New 'Museum of Tomorrow' Studies Urban Ambitions

The world lacks any significant number of museums focused primarily on the issues of planning. Rio de Janeiro, however, will soon add one to the inventory.

December 20, 2015 - Next City

Santiago Calatrava

Meet the New Calatrava-Designed Bridge Under Construction in Downtown Dallas

Everything you wanted to know about the Margaret McDermott Bridge, under construction in Downtown Dallas.

June 4, 2015 - The Dallas Morning News

Exposé: the $4 Billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub

Now that 1 World Trade Center has opened for business, more attention will go to another building with conspicuous civic purposes—the Oculus pavilion at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

December 3, 2014 - New York Times

Review Pans World Trade Center's 'Calatrasaurus' Transportation Hub

Steve Cuozzo absolutely eviscerates the under-construction World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

August 9, 2014 - New York Post

Opera Face-Off Contributes to Calatrava's Crumbling Legacy

In Valencia, workers will begin removing the sparkling mosaic facade that adorns the Queen Sofía Palace of the Arts today. The opera house's crumbling facade is the latest episode to tarnish architect Santiago Calatrava's professional reputation.

January 13, 2014 - The New York Times

A Monstrous Price Tag for the World's Most Expensive Hallway

One of the first portions of the World Trade Center PATH station has opened beneath West Street in Manhattan. The 100-foot-long pedestrian passageway provides a taste of Santiago Calatrava's design and what a seemingly unlimited budget can buy you.

October 31, 2013 - Next City

Two buildings at Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain

Will Anyone Hire Santiago Calatrava After this Exposé?

While many of Santiago Calatrava's anatomically-inspired designs are lauded, in Valencia - the architect's birthplace and the city where he's built the most - Calatrava is reviled for cost overruns, exorbitant fees, and inexplicable design errors.

September 25, 2013 - The New York Times

Calgary Suburbs

Reining in Sprawl Won't Be Easy; One of Canada's Worst Offenders Shows Why

With its progressive mayor and recent examples of exemplary architecture and urbanism, you'd think alternatives to sprawl would be an easy sell in Calgary. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong, says Christopher Hume.

March 10, 2013 - The Toronto Star

Calatrava Walks Away from Denver Airport

Claiming frustration with inadequate funding and not enough time in the schedule, famed architect Santiago Calatrava has walked away from the Denver Airport's south terminal expansion project.

September 26, 2011 - The Denver Post

Buildings Alone Do Not Constitute Regeneration

The "Bilbao Effect" is the apotheosis of the notion that a struggling post industrial city can be regenerated through set-piece art and design. But Frank Gehry, the architect of the Guggenheim, suspects the gallery was only part of a larger gestalt.

June 23, 2010 - Financial Times

Ground Zero Plans Taking Shape, But Still Troubled

The long-delayed and troubled design for Manhattan's Ground Zero site has undergone some improvements and been revealed in a new model. But as New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Oroussoff notes, the design is still lacking.

May 12, 2009 - The New York Times

No Ceremony, Little Love for New Venice Canal Bridge

The first new bridge over Venice's Grand Canal in 70 years will open next month, but no no fanfare and without ceremony. Locals are calling off events to protest the bridge's many delays and cost overruns.

August 28, 2008 - The Times

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