Bridge over the Venice. Calatrava.

Venice Architecture Biennale: here are some snaps of Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande (Fourth Bridge on the Grand Canal) by architect Santiago Calatrava.





The bridge links the train station to Piazzale Roma.

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Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso Sweden

Located in the western port of Malmö, near the bridge over the Strait of Oresund, linking Sweden with Denmark, the tower, inspired by a sculpture of a human torso, by Calatrava himself, twists on itself giving a 90 degrees from the base to the lower ground alta.pThe building, constructed of steel, glass and concrete, is divided into nine cubes rotating the main structural element is a reinforced concrete core of 10.6 meters in diameter (like a spine). Its center corresponds exactly with the axis of rotation of the plants. 



 

The building's exterior is clad with panels of glass and aluminum.


 Each cube has six floors.Coexist in building luxury homes and offices. The offices are located in the first two buckets of construction, with a total area of 4,000 square meters. Cubes three to nine house 147 houses whose surface varies between 45 and 190 square meters.

 

 

 The last two plants (from which you can see Copenhagen) are devoted to business meetings, political meetings and official visits.The building is in a degraded urban area being transformed from an industrial space with obsolete facilities to a residential, leisure and business, along the Baltic Sea.
 



 

Client: HSB Malmö
Architect-Engineer: Santiago Calatrava
Category: High-Rise
Height: 623 ft
Plants: 54
Use: Mixed Residential / Office
Tipology: Hybrid Architecture
Architectural Style: Postmodern
Images and Renders: Copyright © HSB Malmo

 

The spectacular building, with nine cubes that twist 90 degrees from its base to the top floor, is distributed around a central core of reinforced concrete that eventually protrudes from the same volume. A mixed use would be given to this most interesting highrise from the standpoint of structural and architectural spaces for offices in the first two blocks and luxury apartments below the third to the ninth cube inclusive. The highlight of the facade is the backbone that runs outside the front to the fullest extent vertically and provides stability against strong wind, these two structural walls, combining both horizontal and inclined beams of steel, are tasked to transmit the loads the foundation of the building.
 

 

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The future train station in Liège by Santiago Calatrava.

Here is the wonderful final project of the station that will stand in Liège, Belgium, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

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Santiago Calatrava: finding architecture's soul

The renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been speaking to euronews. His designs - which take their inspiration from nature - provoke strong reactions; they are either loved or loathed.

Calatrava, who considers himself to be above all an artist, says an architect is also a philanthropist. In the past cities were designed to last, today they provide an insight into the soul of the lost civilisations that built them. So, if architecture is the most tangible sign of a civilisation how then to preserve the sacred nature of a location?

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