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Almost ethereal, Valencia's Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía stands at the edge of the Mediterranean, its egg-shaped dome looking something like an ocean liner's hull or a spaceship. Designed by leading architect and native son of the city Santiago Calatrava, the building is a gleaming composition: curved walls, rolling stairways; turquoise reflecting pools topped by a detached, feather-like roof. But the Palau is more than an architectural masterpiece. An opera house that cost in the neighborhood of €325 million to build, it is also the riskiest element in the city's gamble...
...slated for retail. The centerpiece is supposed to be the 1,776-ft. Freedom Tower, estimated to cost $2.3 billion. But beyond the specifics, the WTC is supposed to invigorate New York's downtown real estate market. A new commuter train station, with a well-received design by Santiago Calatrava, is under construction, and New York Governor George Pataki has proposed a second commuter rail from JFK international airport...
...evening, Jon Stewart delivered an exceptionally witty monologue, and then the glorious Melissa Etheridge brought the guests to their feet with her set, culminating in the Janis Joplin classic Me and Bobby McGee. More than 50 influentials attended, and several of them--Bill Belichick, Martha Stewart, the architect Santiago Calatrava, the Dutch women's-rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai and Eliot Spitzer--toasted those who had influenced them...
Though new American skyscrapers are not going to the same height as the supertalls being built in other nations, more complicated profiles are finally making their way into the U.S. skyline. Calatrava will be building a tower soon in New York City. His plan is for a structure that separates a dozen condos into discrete four-story modules--town houses in the sky. Each apartment is a $30 million, 10,000-sq.ft. package that's separately cantilevered from an 835-ft. central core, then further supported by exposed trusses that attach to steel piers running the full height of the building...
...have an approach to the skyscraper as a sculptural element," says Calatrava, who likes to recall that when sculptor Constantin Brancusi set eyes on the New York skyline in the 1940s, he declared it looked just like his studio, a bristling collection of abstract statuary...