Landscape Architecture

Santiago Calatrava - City of Arts & Sciences

Calatrava Design - Umbracle Photo © Alice Joyce

The spectacle of the City of Arts and Sciences looms like a dream: Santiago Calatrava’s gleaming white, organic architectural forms in glass, steel and concrete emphatically proclaiming Valencia’s place in the new millennium. Situated amid a 7,000 square-meter green space and sculpture park, completed in 2007, the ‘City’ arises in a formerly depressed industrial area a few kilometers from the sea.

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