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Re: (rshsdepot) New York, NY: An Architect's Grand Vision for a TradeCenter T...
I like Calatrava, it is not he I was referring to back there for the current
junk-yard esthetic in architecture....
I like design even when impractical...I like that portholed building on
stilts at Columbus Circle, in its quirkiness it is the only building on that
Circle with any character, those new towers certainly don't give much..
I am not even sure I was referring to a rail-related bad architecture, this
style seems more used for museums and new philharmonics.....
and even here, don't get me wrong, I also like these Gehry structures and
similar...and for the former WTC site, certainly making it look like a big
gigantic wreck might be apt...I still think they should have left in place
the Twin Towers 60 story high peeled back aluminum exoskeleton, as haunting
as Hiroshima, Dresden, or that cathedral in England....haunting,
reverberating....but they hauled it away and cut it up and gave it out to be
displayed (macabre) in various places across the land who ask for a piece...
But I drift....I had been hoping they'd use the old abandoned Church Street
H&M station for PATH for a while....but if they want to build a soaring
whatever, it would be fine, though I think for PATH there should be more
tubular elements in the station...
Paul
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen L. Lindsey" <kwillowby_@_kermantel.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: RE: (rshsdepot) New York, NY: An Architect's Grand Vision for a
TradeCenter T...
> Personally, I like Calatrava. I was in Spain for the summer of '94 and
> did a study of Modern and Contemporary Spanish architecture (among other
> things). As an architect he is very sensitive to locale, even while
> maintaining his own style which, to my personal liking, owes many
> elements to the Modernismo movement out of Cataluna, most notably Gaudi.
>
> If civic architecture (and especially railroad and other transportation
> architcture) is to remain relevant and inspiring to newer generations,
> it must be willing to take some artistic risks. The era of the grandiose
> piles like St. Louis is gone (although I like them and lament their
> passing, especially when standing in an "Amshack") and newer and more
> innovative expressions of civic pride are called for. Just my $0.02
> worth.
>
> Blake H. Lindsey
>
> Kerman, CA, Just down the block from Kerman Yard, SJVR
>
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> Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open
> her up for ninety miles an hour. Take in the prairie right and left,
> rolling land and new hay crops, swaths of new hay laid in the sun. A
> signalman in a tower, the outpost of Kansas City, keeps his place at a
> window with the serenity of a bronze statue on a dark night when lovers
> pass whispering.
>
> (Carl Sandburg, "Still Life")
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> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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