Europe, Spain, Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe (cut from B&T)
Santiago Calatrava’s Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe. About / from this museum: "This is the great 21st-century science museum for getting to know in a didactic, interactive, and entertaining way everything to do with life, science, and technology. The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum has become a reference point for interactive science. Its main objective is stimulating curiosity and critical thinking and at the same time surprising and amusing the public by its contents from the world of science, technology, and the environment.
The spectacular building designed by Santiago Calatrava contains over 26,000 square metres of exhibitions on current scientific and technical matters. Full interactivity is one of its special features, the motto of which is “Forbidden not to touch, not to feel, not to think”. The method used by the Museum consists of a huge variety of seasonal exhibitions and scientific activities of all kinds to arouse the visitor’s curiosity on new technologies and scientific advancements, so as generate a pleasant learning process in which the visitor always takes an active part and decides where he/she would like to go and what he/she would like to know."
Source: here.
The (closed) staircase leads to the outer upper deck of the building. The weathered concrete adds to the biomorphic/skeletal character of the building. The contraption in the pond (right bottom) is a temporary stage under construction.
The setting : The City of Arts and Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències; Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain, designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela. It’s situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia.
The first stages of construction were taken in July 1996. The Ciudad was inaugurated April 16, 1998, with the opening of L’Hemisfèric. The last component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de las Arts Reina Sofia was inaugurated on October 9, 2005, at Valencian Community Day. Originally budgeted at €300 million, the City of Arts has cost nearly three times the initial expected cost. And almost bankrupted the region.
This is number 27 of the Valencia ! album and 287 of Zwart wit.
Posted by AurelioZen on 2021-05-16 07:57:11
Tagged: , Europe , Spain , Valencia , Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias , Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe , Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències , hfs014045
