Best quotes by Santiago Calatrava on Bridge

Checkout quotes by Santiago Calatrava on Bridge

• ‟ The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.

  - Santiago Calatrava
  

• ‟ What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

  - Santiago Calatrava
  

• ‟ Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world.

  - Santiago Calatrava
  

• ‟ I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This was, for me, a kind of religious experience.

  - Santiago Calatrava
  

• ‟ A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.

  - Santiago Calatrava
  

• ‟ In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.

  - Santiago Calatrava