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lines & curves

All of Calatrava’s work celebrates movement, but none more fittingly than the Liège-Guillemins station. The soaring ribs of its massive roof and the repetitive arches of its auxiliary spaces’ long, arcaded sections are as dizzying as the state-of-the-art trains that dart across its tracks. Nothing about the lofty structure, which appears to change shape at every angle, is static.

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