Ernstings warehouse by calatrava

Location:

Coesfeld, Coesfeld (Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

FUnction: Warehouse

Static as warehouse, dynamic like a opera house!....

A Block of aluminum like box spreading its 'roller shutter' like a wavy wings welcoming the trucks going in and out!

Mechanical in architecture!

Tor Vergata University (Roma II) by Santiago Calatrava

Ground has been broken for a new Campus Master Plan, Sports City and Rectorate Tower.

Located to the east of central Rome, Tor Vergata University currently has a 1,480 acre campus serving 38,700 students in six schools: economics, law, engineering, arts and humanities, medicine and science.

Calatrava’s master plan for the campus, conceived with conscious reference to the Circus Maximus, is designed as a long promenade, bordered along its entire length by a double row of cypresses. At one end will be the new Sports City; at the other, the Rectorate of Tor Vergata University. A large urban park, linking the University with Sports City, will become a forum for meetings and social and cultural events.
Other buildings, to be developed later, will ultimately line the avenue, providing accommodations for students and housing new university faculties.

Sports City, to be developed in an area close to the Torrenova access to the Rome-Naples highway, will be comprised of two identical fan-shaped pavilions, arranged symmetrically, and a series of external infrastructure works to complete and complement the development. One of the pavilions will house the multi-purpose arena (Palasport); the other will accommodate the swimming pools (Palanuoto). The buildings will be functionally independent and therefore able to host different events at the same time.

The Palanuoto/Palasport complex will also contain gymnasia, laboratories, classrooms, teaching facilities, and a fitness and rehabilitation center, as well as offices and shops. Externally, the sporting area will be rounded off with a track for track and field events and an open-air swimming pool.

The essential element of the Rectorate, to be located at the opposite end of the main axis, is a tower, configured as a spiral winding around itself to produce a unified space that appears to stretch upward. The tower’s vertical profile is accentuated by metallic columns, which both constitute the structure and mark its shape. The design is transparent, so that the tower can draw light from the surrounding glazed surfaces and also (when illuminated at night) become a light source in itself.

A harmonious whole will be achieved in the campus by the presence of water, which will be a constant feature around the buildings and throughout the park. All architecture along the central promenade will be characterized by the transparency of the buildings, with alternating solid surfaces and glazed sections creating softly diffused light in the interiors and striking lighting effects externally, accentuated by reflections from the water. The landscaping will create a familiar setting, with the use of Mediterranean species such as cluster pines, false acacias and olive trees.

Sports City is scheduled for completion in time for the World Swimming Championships, to be hosted by Rome in 2009.

Client: Tor Vergata University (Roma II)
Architect: Santiago Calatrava LLC

Milwaukee Art Museum - Quadracci Pavilion

Milwaukee Art Museum - Quadracci Pavilion

700 N. Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
Wisconsin 53202
USA

Santiago Calatrava 2001

Seen as a complete folly by some local Milwaukee residents, this is one of the most captivating contemporary buildings I ever visited. With the Quadracci Pavilion, the boundaries between engineering, sculpture and architecture have simply disappeared. If any Calatrava building deserves the description of �poetry in motion�, the Quadracci Pavilion is certainly it.

The Quadracci Pavilion is Calatrava�s first building in the US. Its objective was not simply to increase space for the Milwaukee Art Museum, but to create a new image for the museum, and by extension for the city of Milwaukee.

The Quadracci Pavilion is technically an extension of Eero Saarinen�s War Memorial on the lakefront of Michigan Lake in Milwaukee. But rather than add to Saarinen�s building, Calatrava proposed to add to the lakefront. It forms a link between the city of Milwaukee and Michigan Lake and extends Wisconsin Avenue almost into the lake. The Quadracci Pavilion complements Saarinen�s heavy � and rather grim � building both in form and in material. Where Saarinen�s building is landlocked, introvert, heavy and built in grayish stone, Calatrava�s extension is light and open and reaches out to the lake. The low and transparent connecting hallway almost denies that a relationship between these two buildings exists.

Kinetic Aesthetic + Minimalist + Clean = Fascinating Architecture.

When it opened!!

When it closed!

Open again~

Now it closed!

Interior with the outer louvers closed~

Interior with louvers opened like the bird spreading wings. capturing dayligthing into the interior.

Calatrava in Chicago, The Fordham Spire

Santiago again presents his Sculpture in Architecture in Chicago Lakefront, the Fordham Spire.

This Residential cum 150 rooms hotel Tower will be the tallest in US and i believe it will be a new icon in "skyscrapers jungle" , Chicago. When will we see a habitable sculpture appears in Kuching Skyline? gaga!!