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By that measure, Calatrava's landmark contribution to Liège won't be just an elegant hub; it should also spur regeneration of a city blighted by the collapse of its steel industry. "It was my goal to create a 21st-century transportation facility that would not only unite Liège with the rest of Europe, but would also serve as a symbol of the city's renewal," Calatrava said. links of london rings "The project, as a whole, creates a new gateway into Liège and reestablishes a relationship with the city." The Berlin station, the biggest rail junction in Europe, was conceived in the euphoria that accompanied reunification, and stands symbolically on a patch of what was once a no man's land between East and West Berlin. links of london jewellery
To the champions of rail, that signals a return to a happier past. In its 19th-century heyday, the railway station doubled as an ornate expression of confidence in progress and the industrial age. Cities took pride in the splendor of the stations and the use of the latest materials, vaulting vast spaces with cast iron. "Soaring train sheds-the cathedrals of the industrial age-weren't just a way of allowing the smoke to dissipate," says Steven Parissien, author of a study of railway architecture. "They were metaphorically and literally the hubs of the city." Charm Bracelet
Such confidence couldn't survive the advent of the car and the airplane. For the postwar generation, the airport terminal better expressed the future than any train station. At New York's Idlewild (now JFK) airport, for instance, Eero Saarinen's daring 1962 TWA terminal was a concrete shell that exemplified the new age of flight. Sweetie Bracelet To developers, the hulking and underused train stations shrieked for demolition. Among the victims: New York's magnificent Penn Station, which vanished in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden. A new subterranean station was built to replace it, prompting Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully to remark: "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat."