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    Interchanges<\/h1>\n

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    Infrastructure and Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n

    Our world is urbanizing. A little over a decade ago, the planet reached a tipping point with more people living in urban rather than rural areas. Over the next thirty years, it is estimated that this figure will rise to more than two thirds of the world\u2019s population\u2014 with almost all of those people living in cities.<\/p>\n \n\n\n

    The Latin word for city is urbs, hence urban and urbane. Civis referred to those living
    in Ancient Rome, hence civitas, civil and civilized. These words, and their roots, evoke the
    physical reality of infrastructure and buildings as well as the spiritual values of civilization
    itself\u2014the aspirational quest for an improved quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As an architect, I have always considered infrastructure to be the urban glue that
    binds together the individual buildings of our cities, and creates the connections between
    them. It is the streets, boulevards and highways, the civic spaces and parks, the public
    transport systems, the bridges and the global gateways of airports. However, these structures
    at ground level are the visible manifestations. Below ground lie the hidden networks of
    sanitation, water, energy, and tunnels for mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The story that I have described of cities, and the universal links that bring them
    together, is also manifest in the story of Ferrovial as builders with a worldwide reach. Jos\u00e9
    Manuel Ballester\u2019s photographs, collated in this book, are a snapshot in time of that presence
    through fifty projects, in ten countries across three continents. They take the reader on a
    journey that cuts a path from the mega scale of an international airport terminal to the mini
    scale of a roadside filling station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ballester is an artist with the camera, and I have followed his work over
    the years with much admiration. His photographer\u2019s eye captures the spirit and, at times, the
    heroic dimension of the great ventures documented in this book. To me as an architect, his
    skill is to balance the act of making\u2014the process of building\u2014with the finished products
    that emerge at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The concourse and baggage hall of Terminal 2 at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport serves
    18.5 million passengers a year, arriving and leaving through twenty-nine different airlines. As
    a working building, it is as international and grand in its scale as the distinctive canopies of
    Repsol\u2019s two hundred stations throughout Spain are jewel-like and of-their-place.
    Below ground, the Bilbao Metro is another typical project\u2014a network of 49
    kilometers of tunnels serving 49 stations (31 subterranean, 18 surface), each with a
    distinctive presence of canopies at street level. The system has had a transformative effect
    on the life of the city, and its creation was instrumental in Bilbao\u2019s becoming the host of the
    famed Guggenheim Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I single out these particular projects not only because they faithfully demonstrate
    the range and breadth of the builder\u2019s contribution to urban life, but because each one has
    a personal connection to me and my colleagues. We worked with Ferrovial as the architects
    for the Bilbao Metro system, for Repsol\u2019s filling stations and on the master plan for London
    Heathrow\u2019s Terminal 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There are some experiences that are so moving they endure in the memory, and
    visiting the site of the Bilbao Metro under construction made one such deep impression. I
    can remember squelching through mud, deep below ground, to come across a giant machine that was boring its way through the earth, dwarfing the operatives who were standing in this
    great cathedral-like space. Maybe time magnifies the scale in one\u2019s memory, but I remember
    afterwards describing it as a religious-like experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I have always sensed an almost spiritual dimension to the human ingenuity and
    teamwork that is choreographed across a building site. It is a never-ending source of
    wonderment to me that a building or work of infrastructure finally emerges out of this
    process. There is a nobility in the act of constructing, whether that be at the scale of a great
    subterranean cavern for a railway, or through the precise crafting of metal to create the razorsharp edge of a canopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When I talk on the subject of design and construction, particularly to younger
    audiences of students and graduates, I sometimes invoke the analogy of an iceberg. The
    act of building across time, and the tangible outcomes, are there to behold like the tip of
    the iceberg\u2014we can see and experience them. What is not revealed, what lies beneath
    the surface, is the coming together of different disciplines\u2014the pooling of resources,
    collaborations, and teamwork. These are also the values that underpin any great organization
    and especially Ferrovial: they are the intellectual equivalent of the solid foundations that
    underpin a mighty structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Creativity crosses all the boundaries between professions. I recall one of my
    colleagues reflecting on his experience of working with Ferrovial by saying that he found
    them to be \u201cextraordinary builders and engineers with an approach that was always positive
    and very direct.\u201d He went on to describe them as \u201c. . . hard taskmasters, focused on solutions,
    who will relentlessly push their team for the most buildable answer, which is a wonderful
    discipline. They take their share of responsibility and a great deal of ownership of design
    decisions, which is collaborative, and not always the case with contractors.\u201d It is this attitude
    of mind which achieves the best fusion of design, engineering, and constructing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This book, as a photographic essay, is an uplifting celebration of Ferrovial\u2019s global
    construction record and the underlying culture of an organization that has endured over
    nearly seven decades, and which makes possible such impressive achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Norman Foster, Architect<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/m-wysiwig>\n\n\n\n

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