Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: City of Arts and Sciences
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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City of Arts and Sciences
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Alternate Title:
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Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
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Image View:
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Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, interior, showing escalator and structure
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Creator:
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Félix Candela (Mexican architect, 1910-1998); Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish architect, born 1951)
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Location:
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site: Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Location Note:
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Avda. Autopista del Saler and Camino de las Moreras
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GPS:
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+39.456633-0.353743
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Date:
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1991-2005 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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park (recreation area)
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Work Type 2:
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opera house
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Work Type 3:
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museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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glass; steel; ceramic tile
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); gardening
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); recreation and games; festivals; seascape; parks (recreation areas); interior
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Five
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Identifier:
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1A1-CS-CAS-C28
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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