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...architectural element was reduced to questions like 'What patterns are we gonna use for the windows?'" Now the formulas have all been cast to the wind. The past decade or so has been a time of virtuoso architects, not just Libeskind, Hadid and Isozaki but also Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and many others, all of them working in very different styles but with the common impulse to knock apart the familiar glass-and-steel box and put it back together in unheard of ways...
Piano and Foster have been building tall for much of their careers, but until recently many of the others worked closer to the ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable...
...those making the trip, consider this a travel advisory: as the Aug. 13 torch lighting draws near, many venues still don't have pavement, signage or landscaping. The architect of the main stadium, Santiago Calatrava, insists he will need every minute until the opening ceremonies to finish his work. The $312 million central security system, designed to monitor everyone from pickpockets to al-Qaeda operatives, will not be fully operational. The nation's power grid is shaking like an old washing machine. Every class of laborer, from hotel employees to prostitutes, has threatened an Olympics-timed strike. Traffic barely moves...
...dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn't require new feats of engineering - the Arcos Bosques Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that lightens the building's mass and brings the sky itself into play. The Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava is by training both an architect and an engineer, and his new high-rise projects wear their engineering on their sleeves. Turning Torso, an apartment and office tower under construction in Malmö, Sweden, spirals suavely around its central core like a plug of twisted toffee, producing a form that looks...
...test of the sliding roof over the 75,000-seat Olympic Stadium in Athens - the venue for the opening ceremony on Aug. 13 - the event was filled with drama and anxiety. Its outcome would determine whether the architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun - and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof...