The Calatrava Collection

[JEC 100]

I have decided to make several buildings from the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Why Santiago Calatrava, his buildings are so strange and out of place in simcity? Well, if I make more of his buildings then they won't be so out of place. It is also for my city that I am making. Cities like Barcelona have their own unique style of architecture which i would like in my city.

 I have already made the Turning Torso and the Estacao do Oriente (Oriente Station); next I will make the transportation hub in the new World Trade Center in New York (I will still work on the HSBC building).

Go to this site: http://www.calatrava.com/  to choose the buildings you would prefer for me to make.

(I will also make the footbridges that he has designed)

[Alejandro_Caracas 0]

Made The BARCELONA's Montjuic Communication Tower and the Athens' Olympic Sport complex Good Luke,,

Also yo can made Carlos Raul Villanueva Buildings is the most important Venezuela architect

This Is On-Line Carlos R

[BigMac 24]

JEC, thank you for taking on the hub! Out of all the plans so far for Ground Zero this has been the most widely acclaimed, even moreso than the Freedom Tower and the memorial. It is wonderful art.

 

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[flamesrock 6]

Isn't that the guys who designed that really weird, gigantic postmodern tower that was supposed to be, but never built?? If so, I can't wait.

-good luck

[JEC 100]

Does anyone know what the dimensions are to the exterior of the hub? The only number I saw was 150m for the height, but I think that is too high, but what I really need is the width and length of the base. thanks

Edit: well the height is 150, but in feet not metres, so I'll just have to make everything proportional using my eyes.

[BigMac 24]

I haven't found information yet on dimensions, but I will keep checking. In the meantime, here are some images and animations of the hub.

[Incognito 19]

This is weird but I was just thinking about this as I would like to see the Milwaukee art museum made but I can't do it yet and I didn't think anybody here would be interested....but it would be cool if you made it...

[JEC 100]

yes, the Milwaukee art museum will be one of the buildings that I make, but the next one will be the Montjuic Communication Tower, and then either the milwaukee art museum or the arts and science building in Valencia.

He is a progress picture:

 Edit: I changed the image to show the transparency better.

It really does look like a bird

[BigMac 24]

Another of Calatrava's marvelous creations is the Sundial Bridge in Redding, California. Here is some information on that.

 

http://www.turtlebay.org/press/images/lg_bridge.gif>

[drewz15 0]

Calatrava really is a modern master of shadow, space and perception. It will be interesting to see how these things are portrayed in Sim City dimentions. I'll look forward to the progress.

and i second the request for the WTC transit terminal. i believe it's relatively small compared to his other projects, with the above-ground floor only serving as an entrance. the main floor is below-ground.

[JEC 100]

Finished the exterior and most of the interior. You can't really see the interior, which is dissapointing. I have to work on the night lighting, it didn't turn out as planned.

[BigMac 24]

That looks good, JEC. I haven't yet found any information about dimensions other than the 150ft height, but I'll keep checking.

[JEC 100]

There are currently three buildings of this collection

Turning Torso:

Estacao do Oriente (The platform covers are transparent and it is a low quality picture):

and finally the WTC Transportation Hub:

 

[BigMac 24]

The hub looks great, especially at night.

[JEC 100]

This is my next project: The Montjuic Comunication Tower in Barcelona

 

[BigMac 24]

The main piece of information I've found on the tower so far is that it is 136 meters high. Here are some sites with pictures:

 

http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str00437.php

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/MontjuicTower/

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=336

[simmax 0]

All these buildings are beautiful! I like the train station, and the hub at night... good job!!

[DuskTrooper 314]

BTW, someone copied the truning torso on the official exchange AGAIN.

[JEC 100]

yeah i know, there are still two of them on there, besides mine; thanks for telling me.

thanks for the links BigMac. the text in the second one helped me on the textures and a little on the model.

Can anyone tell me why the bottom is so bright in the night view?:

[JEC 100]

can anyone help me on how to fix the night lighting on the base? all I used was omni lights at the arc near the top, but there is more light at the bottom than the top.

I also need to ask if anyone wants the surrounding area. if you look at the olympic site in Barcelona, or near the bottom of the tower, there is a wall and some stairs. Do you think I should make that area? if not then I can just release the building when I fix the lighting.

thanks

[JEC 100]

 

(Rendered on draft) Do any of you think the lights are okay, or do you think that I should just remove all the lighting at the bottom and just leave the lights at the top. I couldn't find any night shots of this so I had to make it up.

If everyone thinks that it is fine, I can export it on high and upload it.

[MayorVieira 1]

I think it would look better with only the top lights, the lights in the ground stand out too much. Just my opinion...

[JEC 100]

The Guggenhiem, Bilbao (below) will be my next project. It was designed by Frank Gehry not Santiago Calatrava, but a nearby footbridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava which I will make along side the Guggenhiem.

[Smurfer2 7]

Two questions: First I love your creations! Second, why is the white square under the transportation center slanted? Can it be fixed? Was it fixed? Is it transit enabled? I like your next project!

[JEC 100]

thanks, i'm glad you like them.

from the aerial picture I saw of the hub (link below), the white square was slanted compared to the parallel roads next to it http://www.calatrava.com/slides/world_trade_center_01.jpg

there you can see that the building and the bottom is slanted.

it can be changed, i will just have to reexport again for a day.

it is transit enabled, but it is difficult to see where you should connect the subway lines (somewhere in the center if the lot).

[drewz15 0]

in reference to the WTC Transit update, could you perhaps make the lot size a square or two smaller? it's larger than the blocks in my game and sticks out. maybe when the 'white square' is straightened you could do it?

[ardecila 124]

Are you planning to model the Tenerife Opera House? It graces the cover of the most recent Architectural Record.

[dc82 1]

speaking of which, ny times just wrote an article about his plans to build a new res. tower in lower manhattan by the east river...

[BigMac 24]

Here is one of the New York Times articles discussing the proposed tower:

Thinking Outside Box, Architect Comes Up With Cubes

By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Published: March 3, 2004 - New York Times

Fresh from causing a sensation with his avian design for the World Trade Center transportation hub, the architect and artist Santiago Calatrava is ready to make a second startling mark on the Lower Manhattan skyline with a residential tower unlike any New York has ever seen.

It would take the form of an offset stack of 45-foot glass cubes, a dozen in all, each intended to house only one or two families.

Resembling some of Mr. Calatrava's sculptures, but on a titanic scale of 835 feet, the tower would rise over the East River at South and Fletcher Streets, near the South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge. The developer, Frank J. Sciame, estimated its completion in 2006 or 2007.

It will be very expensive to build - just how expensive the developer will not say - and very expensive for prospective owners. But then again, Mr. Sciame said, you only need between 12 and 24 interested parties in the entire world.

In an alternating pattern, four-story cubes would be cantilevered from a concrete core containing elevators, stairways, plumbing and electric lines. Alongside the cubes would be pairs of slender stabilizing spines, turning the entire composition into a gigantic truss. The top of one cube would serve as the terrace for the next cube up.

The cubes could be single dwellings of about 10,000 square feet, or divided. The building would also have an eight-story base that could house a museum or other cultural institution.

We cannot say form follows function, Mr. Calatrava said yesterday by telephone from his home in Zurich. In this case, function follows form. And it works.

The tower would replace a six-story red-brick building at 80 South Street, upland from the sailing ship Wavertree, that serves as the headquarters of Sciame Development and the F. J. Sciame Construction Company. While there is no guarantee that the tower will be built, both Mr. Sciame and Mr. Calatrava have established reputations for completing unusual projects.

Though it would be among the tallest apartment towers in New York, 80 South Street would have only 175,000 square feet of space. Mr. Sciame said he was trying to configure it so that it could be built as of right; that is, within existing zoning regulations and without the need for discretionary city approvals and a full public land-use review.

So far, the project has been embraced by some of those who have seen it.

Santiago Calatrava's design concept for 80 South Street is one of the most unique and compelling this city has seen in decades, Amanda M. Burden, the director of the Department of City Planning, said in a statement yesterday. It would add an extraordinary dimension to the East River skyline.

Carl Weisbrod, the president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, which oversees the Lower Manhattan business improvement district, said 80 South Street would be a boon to the East River waterfront - an area that has not gotten as much attention as the Hudson - and to the South Street Seaport Historic District, in part by drawing down some of the unused development rights generated by the small structures in the district.

Perhaps not every preservationist would agree that a structure reaching 1,000 feet at the tip of its mast would complement a nearby precinct of 19th-century countinghouses.

But Madelyn Wils, the chairwoman of the Lower Manhattan community board, said she did not think that the structure's height would be controversial particularly given its slenderness and transparency. It's such an unusual building, it's worth taking a chance on, she said.

Mr. Calatrava, a Spanish citizen who is an artist as well as an architect and engineer, has explored the expression of the human body in sculptures of marble and ebony cubes supported by chromium-plated steel cables.

His relationship with Mr. Sciame began two years ago, when he asked for help in remodeling his Upper East Side townhouse. Mr. Sciame, a contractor and a developer, said he was impressed by Mr. Calatrava's sculptures and by his Turning Torso apartment tower, under construction in Malmo, Sweden. He invited Mr. Calatrava to the South Street site, where the architect found a place to explore the torso theme on a colossal scale. New York is the place to make a statement like that, Mr. Calatrava said.

Though he has been a presence on the New York architectural scene since 1992, after he won a competition to complete the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Mr. Calatrava's only finished work in the city is the Times Capsule of 2001, a sculptural time capsule commissioned by The New York Times, which stands outside the American Museum of Natural History.

With his two new projects, Mr. Calatrava has jumped to the forefront of architects involved in rebuilding Lower Manhattan. And he seems to feel at home.

If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, he said yesterday, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

[BigMac 24]

Here is a fact sheet for the 80 South Street Tower from its official website, 80southstreettower.com .