Alameda Bridge and Underground Station
Item
- Title
- Alameda Bridge and Underground Station
- Alternative Title
- Puente de la Exposicion
- Creator
- Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish architect, born 1951)
- City
- Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Country
- Spain
- Date Created
- 1991-1995 (creation)
- Century
- 20th century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Twentieth century
- Cultural Context
- Spanish
- Materials
- painted steel
- Techniques
- construction (assembling)
- Subject
- architecture
- cityscape
- engineering and industrial design
- manufacturing
- bridges (built works)
- City planning
- Description
- View of subway station, Both an architect and civil engineer (with a doctorate on the technology of space frames), Calatrava produces dynamic structural forms that challenge traditional practice in both architecture and engineering. His approach to bridge design, for example, is based on the view that bridges can be used "˜to add energy to the landscape'. [Alameda Bridge is an arch bridge which is a roadway and pedestrian walkway.]
- Source
- Javier Gomez
- Photographer
- Javier Gomez
- Rights Holder
- © Javier Gomez
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish architect, born 1951), “Alameda Bridge and Underground Station”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed March 15, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/38695