You Can't Fight Bilbao's City Hall: Calatrava Loses Lawsuit

Doesn’t being a starchitect count for anything these days? Apparently not, at least in Spain anyway. Architectural Record is reporting that big shot Santiago Calatrava has lost his lawsuit against the city of Bilbao for mucking up a bridge he’d designed by tacking on a new walkway leading up to it, thus skipping Calatrava’s stairs and making it easier for people to get across (apparently, we’re figuring, the architect really hates people in wheelchairs). He fought tough, saying that the bridge was a work of his artistic creation and, like the Mona Lisa, no one should be sticking a stretch of pavement right through it.