The Reggio Emilia railway station
Calatrava's bones/waves. The high-speed train station in Reggio Emilia, the medio-padana, designed and built by Santiago Calatrava, like his other great works, is a charnel house calcified by the sun. The bridges that cross the motorway close to the city are also his, and this is immediately apparent. The 483-metre-long station is composed of a succession of 13 enormous cusps twenty metres high, whose interiors, due to the jagged pattern of the roofs, are full of light and transparency. The station is a floating set of waves, a gibbous skeleton of an ancient animal. Calatrava is a master of the poetics of movement and demonstrates, once again, that in the hands of talent, bridges and stations can become beautiful and memorable objects.
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