Bridges Quote by Santiago Calatrava Download Open image “Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.” — Santiago Calatrava ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bridges City Development Very
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus Copy Share Image
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
