A photographer goes beyond words to tell buildings' stories
By David W. Dunlap | China Daily | Updated: 2014-12-27 07:50
With architecture, words are not enough. Consider the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
In recent weeks, readers of The New York Times have compared it to a cathedral and a Venus fly trap, a pigeon deterrent and a bird carcass, the collapsing twin towers and the steel pieces that remained after they fell. Santiago Calatrava, its principal architect, sees it as a dove. I thought in 2005 that it was becoming more of a stegosaurus.
How can architecture get through so many verbal thickets to reach readers?
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