Lately it seems that the architect Santiago Calatrava can not avoid controversy. Since the complaint made to the city of Bilbao to build a bridge designed by Arata Isozaki, following his Zubi-Zuri Bridge, to the criticism in his newly opened bridge to Jerusalem.
This time the focus of the controversy focuses on his latest project, a heat exchanger transport steel and glass to the World Trade Center in New York. Specifically, it has been criticized by the New York Times which is described inter alia as "disheartening" and "monument to ego." They even provide data on the budget of 1,500 million euros to 2,530 million. It seems that is not the first time that the budget comes out with a design not too convincing.
The project consists of a retractable roof ready to open each Sept. 11 in memory of victims of the attacks. Surely a "detail" enormously expensive budget.
To make matters worse the Queen Sofia English Institute in New York exposed to the August 31 an exhibition entitled Santiago Calatrava, World Trade Center Transportation Hub. No doubt the controversy is served.
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