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Santiago Calatrava is a genius - or perhaps, rather, was touched by genius in this stage of his career. He has become, it seems to me, rather more of a trick pony engineer than the evanescent free spirit he was in the days of the Expo in Sevilla. It's a beautiful structure, but thios image probably doesn't do full justice to the leap of engineering imagination it required - it just doesn't have anything to say where the ground is, which is essential to an understanding of the stucture. His inspiration, for what it's worth, was a man pulling a weight along the ground: and his own sketch of that idea is comparable with the best of Leonardo. |
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