Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
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Architect and engineer who builds monuments that look like they're about to take flight—think skeletal bridges and swan-necked museums. Calatrava's dramatic white structures have become the skyline signatures of Valencia, Athens, New York, and beyond.
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Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish-Swiss 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. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the C…
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