Today we went to the Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències (City of the Arts and of the Sciences in Valencian). It’s a huge museum/cultural complex that includes a performing arts center, a science museum, an IMAX theater, an oceanarium, and a footbridge and agora still under construction. The oceanarium costs a fortune (it’s like €28 for one person), so we only went to the science museum. The whole complex is full of amazing, futuristic architecture by Santiago Calatrava. It basically looks exactly like how you’d expect a spaceport to look.
There are like forty pictures here (and I think some of them are good), so apologies for my photographic overexuberance, but I was really blown away by this architecture.
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- The performing arts center
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- The science museum
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- Me with building
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- They’re building more!
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- Like ribs
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- The arts center and the IMAX theater
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- Another angle on the IMAX theater
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- Looking across at L’Umbracle, the gardens
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- Outdoor walkway
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- Danny walking
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- Facing the other way
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- Supports?
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- The gardens across the water
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- I think that’s an air conditioner
Wow! These are some great pictures!!! (:
These are exciting, dramatic pictures. Are we seeing building structural and mechanical elements (the “beached whale’s ribcage”) or decorative facades? There is a school of architectural modernism that tries to make a virtue of plumbing pipes, ductwork, stuctural supports, etc., by openly displaying them in purest form.