City of Arts and Sciences

Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias

Felix Candela (Mexican architect, 1910-1998)

Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish architect, born 1951)

Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Spain

1991-2005 (creation)

20th century

21st century

Architecture and City Planning

performing arts centers

performing arts buildings

performing arts structures

Twenty-first century

Spanish

glass

steel

ceramic tile

construction (assembling)

gardening

architecture

contemporary (1960 to present)

recreation and games

festivals

seascape

parks (recreation areas)

View from L'Umbracle on the southern façade of the complex in the Promenade and Car Park, showing the planetarium and Science Museum, 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 Felix 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'Hemisferic. The last great component of the City of the Arts and the Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was opened October 9, 2005.

Javier Gomez

Javier Gomez

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