Next stop, Valencia, the home town of Spanish sculptor, painter and architect Santiago Calatrava.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, it will open in 2003.
Associated Press Writer Cristian Kovadloff in La Plata and Almudena Calatrava, Debora Rey and Michael Warren in Buenos Aires contributed to this story.
Calatrava has also proposed dismantling an elevated highway along the water and extending a plaza nearby, although this has not yet been approved by city officials.
The proposal, by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, involves increasing the building's height by five floors and adding a spire and cantilevered restaurant on top of that.
Calatrava has a way of creating swooping, curving forms that many people find exhilarating, and which at their best are convincing attempts to convey a new kind of civic monumentality.
The project will see the demolition of an elevated highway, the planting of 15, 000 trees and construction of the Museum of Tomorrow, designed by Santiago Calatrava and set to open in 2014.
So too are various transport and construction projects: embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof for the main athletics stadium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, may not be ready in time.
Back in town, the white arch and cables of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge the first vehicular bridge to be built in the United States by Santiago Calatrava is in its final months of construction over the Trinity River.
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New transport systems to take spectators to the stadiums are delayed and embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof designed by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, may not be ready for the main athletics stadium in time.
Known for the elegance of his designs, Calatrava discusses the relationship between art and architecture and man's desire to build increasingly higher -- he has recently conceived the proposed Chicago Spire, soon to be the tallest residential building in the world.
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