Best "starchitect": Calatrava, Foster or Gehry?

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Best "starchitect": Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster or Frank Gehry?

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Calatrava, Foster and Frank Gehry are worldwide renown and critically acclaimed architects who have designed some of the most iconic buildings of the last few decades.

Santiago Calatrava is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter. He has offices in New York, Doha and Zurich. Some of Calatrava's better known works are the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (Valencia, Spain), Auditorio de Tenerife (Tenerife, Spain), Turning Torso Tower (Malmo, Sweden), Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge (Dallas, Texas) and the Liège-Guillemins (Liege, Belgium)

Norman Foster is a very prolific British architect famous for high-tech architecture. His firm Foster + Partners is based in London. His works include: the  Millau Viaduct (France), 30 St Mary Axe (also known as The Gherkin, London), restoration of the Reichstag (Berlin),  Hearst Tower (New York) and The Expo MRT Station (Singapore)

Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect based in Los Angeles. He is often referred as a post-structuralist architect. Gehry's most admired works include: Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain), MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center (Cambridge, Massachussets) ,Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles),  Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota); and 8 Spruce Street (New York).

Who do you think is the most talented architect: Calatrava, Foster or Gehry?  Tell us about the buildings you find more iconic and if there are other contemporary architects you find more impressive than the three abovementioned.



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