Who is Santiago Calatrava?
Santiago Calatrava is an award-winning architect, sculptor and structural engineer with offices in his hometown of Valencia, Spain, Zurich, Switzerland, and New York. Since completing his first commission for the design and construction of Zurichs Stadelhofen Railway Station in 1983, Calatrava has received acclaim for his projects, including the Montjuic Communications Tower in Barcelona, Spain; the Turning Torso in Malm, Sweden; the Athens Olympic Sports Center in Athens, Greece; and the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., his first project in the United States. Calatrava was commissioned to design the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub for Lower Manhattan in late 2003 and has numerous projects in progress throughout cities worldwide.
