City of Arts and Sciences
Calatrava Valls, Santiago; Candela, Félix
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Alternative Title
Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
Date
1991-2005Description
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, south tip, showing where steel cable meets the ground; The City of Arts and Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia. It is situated at the end of the old riverbed Turia. Turia became a garden in 1980, after the bypass of the river by the great flood of Valencia in 1957. Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project underwent the first stages of construction in July, 1996 and the finished "city" was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last great component of the City of the Arts and the Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, was opened October 9, 2005. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/18/2010)
Type of Work
park (recreation area); opera house; museum; entertainment building; motion picture theaterSubject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), recreation and games, festivals, seascape, parks (recreation areas), Twenty-first century
Rights
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only