Santiago Calatrava Quotations

On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and Island workers from both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The system is very light, using only three supports, none of which stands in the water, so the shipping channels are left completely open.

He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught me, and many architects, that we must answer this demand and never stop challenging ourselves.

I wanted to do a very slender building, and a very transparent one.

This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here, in New York Harbor.

There was a wish to get something exceptional. I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

I am very happy that people have understood our desire to develop this design beyond the ideas we first presented. Now we have taken everything a step further, in order to connect this building to the city around it.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

I am always searching for more light and space.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.