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Phobos
July 4th, 2005, 05:53 AM
Gare Saint-Exupéry

Santiago Calatrava 1989-1994

Calatrava's expressive railway station hall is built astride an existing TGV (high-speed train) track adjacent to Lyon airport. It provides a TGV station for the airport, but also a connection point for both TGV and airplanes into the regional road and rail system.
The building's most striking profile, based on two converging steel arches 120 meters long and 40 meters high. The building is most obviously expressive of a bird, symbolizing flight with even more dynamism than Saarinen's TWA terminal in New York, the two main arches coming together at the bird's beak. Calatrava insists this was not its origin: "I never thought of a bird, but more of the research that I am sometimes pretentious enough to call sculpture" - which is inspired more by the shape of the human eye.

source:www.galinsky.com (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/lyonairport/index.htm)
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Ellatur
July 4th, 2005, 06:17 PM
9.5/10
Arpels
July 4th, 2005, 06:20 PM
Calatrava to me is allways 10/10 :) thys station is not an exeption!!
DRAKKO
July 4th, 2005, 06:57 PM
9.5/10
Valia
July 5th, 2005, 02:20 PM
10/10

another great build of Calatrava :)
Fabio
December 11th, 2005, 01:04 AM
9.5/10

really nice
JohnnyMass
December 11th, 2005, 01:46 AM
9.5/10...Gare do Oriente in Lisbon is better!:D
forvine
December 11th, 2005, 03:43 AM
9/10
Sinjin P.
December 26th, 2005, 05:30 AM
9.5/10
marpa
April 17th, 2006, 01:04 PM
7,5/10
SoboleuS
April 18th, 2006, 10:58 AM
Wow, this train station is amazing! Calatrava is a master :D 9,5/10
Blackraven
April 20th, 2006, 11:05 AM
7.5/10

Due to lack of platform gates.
fatboyslim7
April 20th, 2006, 02:14 PM
10/10
great!
zee
April 20th, 2006, 11:32 PM
8/10
crossbowman
April 27th, 2006, 03:48 PM
9,5/10 ...totally speechless :eek2:
El_Greco
April 30th, 2006, 06:56 PM
9/10
zee
May 1st, 2006, 02:55 PM
8/10
dżimi pejdż
May 2nd, 2006, 09:50 AM
9/10
Mosaic
May 14th, 2006, 11:13 AM
10/10
OtAkAw
May 25th, 2006, 09:47 AM
Calatrava is such a big genius! 10!
azerty
May 25th, 2006, 09:56 AM
8/10

but it's normal that all the railway station is desert ???
Stiggen
June 28th, 2006, 11:42 AM
10/10
groentje
July 16th, 2006, 12:03 AM
Nice. Calatrava proved -again- what an artist he is.

A 9.
clarky
July 16th, 2006, 02:13 PM
8.5/10
montesky
July 31st, 2006, 01:18 PM
Wow, looks like a space ship :)
10/10
gutooo
September 29th, 2006, 05:32 AM
9.5/10

I love Calatrava's work!
Sbz2ifc
January 31st, 2007, 06:46 PM
Calatrava!!! 10.
billyandmandy
February 2nd, 2007, 09:13 PM
9/10
[Jmlr]
February 13th, 2007, 07:35 AM
9.5/10
calatrava is amazing
kamil.bukowski
March 20th, 2007, 09:29 PM
Wow! Impresive :) 9.5/10
Astralis
May 22nd, 2008, 05:27 PM
9/10
LMCA1990
May 22nd, 2008, 08:27 PM
9/10
icarusrising
May 24th, 2008, 08:16 PM
10/10. The form although inspired by technology also mimics those that are found in nature.
W!CKED
July 19th, 2008, 03:29 AM
10/10
henry hill
October 24th, 2008, 09:42 PM
9/10
systema magicum
October 30th, 2008, 04:47 PM
9/10 great concept.:cheers:
mamc82
October 30th, 2008, 05:59 PM
10/10
tonyssa
May 23rd, 2009, 03:08 PM
7.5/10
Jan Del Castillo
October 19th, 2009, 08:27 AM
10. Excellent. Regards.
Nikkodemo
October 25th, 2009, 06:08 PM
10/10
xavarreiro
December 17th, 2009, 01:05 AM
10/10
Srdjan Adamovic
December 17th, 2009, 10:11 AM
8.5/10
romanito
June 7th, 2010, 12:49 AM
9/10
mossimoh
May 23rd, 2011, 11:34 PM
10/10
konik93
May 24th, 2011, 04:07 PM
At sight I knew it's him ;)
yudibali2008
July 5th, 2011, 04:42 AM
10/10
dnh310
July 13th, 2011, 12:32 AM
10/10
Happy Man
March 16th, 2013, 05:11 AM
8.5/10
timo9
May 20th, 2013, 04:08 AM
9/10
samba_man
May 20th, 2013, 04:37 AM
9/10