Santiago Calatrava

Milwaukee is something of an exception.

Our most beautiful building is the Calatrava addition to the art museum.

Santiago Calatrava is not one of these new edgy architects.

He believes in creating flowing beauty.

All of his, you know, the Brise Soleil that we have here, the bridges, so much of what he's designed in Spain, it all has a sense of flowing and captures the eye.

It's harsh.

It's uninviting.

It's the opposite of the Calatrava.

Reflejándose en las aguas del puerto y con la silueta del macizo de Anaga a su espalda, el auditorio Adán Martín de Santa Cruz de Tenerife se ha convertido en su corta existencia, ya que fue inaugurado en 2003, en uno de los edificios modernos más emblemáticos de las Islas Canarias.

El diseño es del arquitecto valenciano Santiago Calatrava y como todas sus obras, se distingue por sus líneas futuristas y el impactante color blanco, que en este caso se consigue con hormigón, pero también con trencadís.

Su elemento más característico es el alero, que parece flotar aunque esté sujeto por uno de los extremos y por el centro.

Debido a su parecido con la ópera de la ciudad australiana, a Santa Cruz se le ha llegado a llamar la Sídney del Atlántico.

But one more remark about Foster's famous dome, um, which by the way wasn't even his idea.

It was basically Santiago Calatrava's idea, but the Germans said, "You have to build the dome." Okay, he finally relented, built the dome.

That is very often mentioned as a f- as a great example because look, it's, it's transparent, and it's even better in terms of the basic symbolism because look, you can go on that roof and you look down on the representatives of the people, and the people, the sovereign, is on top, is above their representatives.

What would you want more in terms of democratic architecture? Well, first of all, if you're on top, you don't hear anything.

I didn't even realize that it was the 25th anniversary, but I went this past summer.

That monument by Santiago Calatrava as an engineer.

Now, I have to say this in a personal take on this, is that my husband is an architect.

We met as undergraduates at Cornell University, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

And by that I mean, it's a little bit like being a CEO without...

I prefer the head contractor of a beautiful build, like a, a Santiago Calatrava build.

Like, I love Calatrava.

He's my favorite architect.

It's this white complex of opera house, science museum, and an aquarium.

And it was designed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava.

He was born in Valencia.

The Lonja de la Seda, a 15th century silk exchange, is also in the city.

This was before the financial meltdown of '08, so there was a plan to build what was going to be the largest residential structure in North America.

It was called The Spire, and there was an architect named Santiago Calatrava or something like that, and it was gonna look like this giant twisty, like, uh, drill bit that was gonna r- you know, it was gonna make the Chicago skyline...

It w- had the highest, tallest residential structure in all of North America.

And the guy who bought the penthouse, now mind you, because real estate, Trump, for example, real estate is one of the best ways to launder money, right? So you'd have, uh, sheikhs and sultans from around the world, uh, advance buying condos in this building for tens of millions of dollars.