"There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something ex..." — Santiago Calatrava

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

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.

A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.