LTarch: EXP3: BRIDGE SUBMISSION

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Flight, Variety of shapes, Futuristic

In architecture, the golden rule was that buildings had to be stable and stationary. For Kahn, form did not necessarily follow function; nor did his projects celebrate all the new possibilities of industrial materials. Inside this complex structural web, there will be a "media village" (more like a city actually), complete with places to eat and play, and a sensational public viewing gallery.

It is a rollercoaster of radical ideas. most challenging, controversial and critically acclaimed ultramodern buildings Calatrava felt the desire to break up this rigid convention He stated that nature served as his guide, inspiring him to create buildings that reflected natural shapes and rhythms. He was intensely interested in the architectural use of zoomorphic forms, a passion evident in such buildings as Turning Torso (1999–2005), his unique apartment tower in Malmö, Sweden. Its sculptural shape suggested a twisting spinal column. For the Lyon (France) Airport Railway Station (1989–94), he created a building that resembled a bird with outspread wings; the interior skeletal steel frame reinforced this birdlike effect. The bird allusion had symbolic meaning as well, since the station served as the end point of the route from Lyon to the airport.Created from monolithic masonry, and drawing on primary geometries with great circles, semi-circles and triangles sliced out of their weighty walls, his buildings exude a timeless and sometimes sinister presence.

They look like the hastily vacated remnants of a future cosmic civilisation. from utopian urban-planning to scientific discoveries of molecular structures – all brought to life through his personal ephemera and correspondence. It became a shape of a 3D Chinese character, its steel structure forms a continuous spatial loop climbing up and around the volume of the building. The screen had two ribbed panels that opened and closed like the wings of a giant seagull, putting the entire edifice into motion, and giving the sense of a building that could take flight.