{"id":299,"date":"2004-04-04T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drrnwbb.com\/blogadmin\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-02-13T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:24:02","slug":"santiago-calatrava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/04\/santiago-calatrava\/","title":{"rendered":"santiago calatrava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20040404.01.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\"><br \/>\n(pic take from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calatrava.com\/\">www.calatrava.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>just went to his website to get the correct spelling of his name, i always get it wrong, when i saw this building. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table width=\"400\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#F7F7F7\">\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"-2\"><b>new york &#8211; 80th south street tower<\/b><br \/>\nthe building will be mr. calatrava&#8217;s first residential project in the united states. the principal units of the building are 45-foot glazed cubes, each of which contains four floors of residential space.  twelve cubes are cantilevered, in steplike fashion, up the building&#8217;s vertical core, which in plan is a slender concrete rectangle. the core contains the building plant, main elevators, service elevator, and emergency stair, so that usable space within the cubes is maximized.  the structure as a whole rises from a 60,000 square foot base, approximately 80 to 90 feet high, which mr. sciame envisions as the home of a major cultural institution. the 80 south street tower as a whole is 835 feet high and will contain 175,000 square feet of space<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20040404.02.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>i saw a documentary on his work a while back, it showed some of the ideas he had &#8211; some of which can be clearly seen in this building &#8211; blocks suspending off each other at an angle or (in the case of this project) vertically. another building of his is the turning torso in malm&ouml;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20040404.03.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>beautiful stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(pic take from www.calatrava.com) just went to his website to get the correct spelling of his name, i always get it wrong, when i saw this building. new york &#8211; 80th south street tower the building will be mr. calatrava&#8217;s first residential project in the united states. the principal units of the building are 45-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}