Calatrava Takes Flight; A Spanish designer's vision for the World Trade Center's site falls--or soars--into place.

Publication: Newsweek

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Byline: Cathleen McGuigan

When the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava unveiled his plans for the $2 billion transit station at the World Trade Center site in New York last month, he apologized for his imperfect English. "Let me draw for you what I cannot say," he told the crowd, and, taking a piece of chalk to a large tablet, he fluently sketched a child releasing a bird--a spellbinding image that had inspired his design. Calatrava's seemingly delicate steel-and-glass terminal sprouts enormous wings that supposedly can flap down gently, creating an opening along the crest of the roof and sheltering the surrounding plaza. It's as if an enormous dove of peace were...

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