valencia architecture · Santiago Calatrava. culture, park, urban plan.. 5. L'Umbracle Valencia,...

valencia architecture.Projects 10

.Created 10-Jan-10

.By Elbe vd Walt, BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa

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Palau de les Arts. Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava. dance theater, music theatre, opera.

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Veles e Vents. Valencia, Spain. David Chipperfield Architects. exposition space, leisure, pavilion,

tourism, watch-tower.

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City of Arts and Sciences. Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava. culture, park, urban plan.

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L'Umbracle. Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava. garden, park, promenade.

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L'Hemisfèric. Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava. auditorium, cinema, planetarium.

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Prince Felipe Science Museum. Valencia, Spain. Santiago Calatrava. museum.

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Luna Rossa Team Base. Valencia, Spain. Renzo Piano. boat house, workshop.

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MuVIM. Valencia, Spain. Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. museum.

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Valencia Congress Centre. Valencia, Spain. Foster & Partners. congress centre, exposition space,

theatre.

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Principe Felipe Research Centre. Valencia, Spain. Ramon Esteve Estudio de Arquitectura. clinic, health care, laboratorium.

http://www.mimoa.eu/users/elbe/Guides/valencia%20architecture/. this page is part of Mi guide 'valencia architecture' made by Elbe vd Walt, BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa.

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photo: Dirk Verwoerd .

photo: Dirk Verwoerd.

photo: Wojtek Gurak

Opening hoursDepending on the agenda of performances. Check the website ofthe City of Arts: http://www.cac.es/palau/

. How to get thereMotorway A-7 and N- 340 road: go across the ComunidadValenciana from North to South. Motorway A-3: connects Madridand Valencia. Motorway 234: connects Valencia with Aragón,Castilla-León and the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Valenciacoach station is located on the bank of the former course of theRiver Túria. This is the stopping place for regular services arrivingfrom all over Spain. Just cross the river and catch EMT. Thefollowing EMT buses reach the project: 19, 35, 95 y 40.

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Palau de les Arts.

AddressPont de Monteolivet 146013 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.lesarts.com

. This is the final segment of Valencia's 'City of Arts and Sciences',following the opening of L´Hemisfèric in 1998, the Prince FelipeScience Museum and L´Umbracle in 2000 and the opening to thepublic of L´Oceanogràfic in 2003. The building is designed with adual intention: that of acting as a multi-hall auditorium and alsoforming an urban landmark. It is used as an opera house, danceand music theatre. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía has 4different halls and also has facilities for teaching and otheractivities closely connected with the artistic and cultural fields.The roof is the most representative part of the complex. The roofor ‘plume’ is the most structurally spectacular detail, 230m. inlength and 70m. in height, while the two ‘shells’ which embracethe building on the outside are made of laminated steel with anapproximate weight of 3,000 tons and feature delicate ceramicwork (trencadís) on the outside.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2004. Floor area/size..

Architect.

Santiago Calatrava. Client.

Generalitat Valenciana.

Contributed by.

anandi_schiphorst.


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photo: ©ACM 2006/Photo: MiracleCandela

. photo: ©ACM 2006/Photo: MiracleCandela.

photo: Wojtek Gurak

Opening hours

. How to get there

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Veles e Vents.

AddressPort America's Cup 146024 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.portamericascup.com/

. Grandstand, pit stop and VIP centrepiece, David Chipperfield'sAmerica's Cup Pavilion was constructed under extreme timepressure and is now the jewel in the crown of Valencia'singenious new urban marina: Port America’s Cup. A homage tothe speed and elegance of ocean racing with sharp edges anddramatic light and shade.The city invested 500m euros in theinfrastructure: the innermost basin of the docks was separatedfrom the container port by an newly built channel, connecting itto the sea. The port is only 3000 meter from the city centre. The architect: “ the brief was to build something exciting wherepeople could congregate to watch the racing. So the idea of usingthe building to create shaded platforms was important. It has tobe place where you can stand outside as much as inside. You’rehere to look out at sea and that’s where I put the emphasis.You’re continuously aware of the long view to the sea and on theother side the view into the port.”

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Project is public!.

Completion.

6-2006. Floor area/size..

Architect.

David Chipperfield Architects. Lighting designer.

Artec Luminotecnia. Associate architect.

b720 arquitectos. Client.

Consorcio Valencia 2007.

Contributed by.

MI_MOA.


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photo: Bjorn Utpott .

photo: Bjorn Utpott.

photo: Bjorn Utpott

Opening hoursAcces to l'hemisferic: Open from 10:00 h. to 21:00 h.

. How to get thereMotorway A-7 and N- 340 road: go across the ComunidadValenciana from North to South. Motorway A-3: connects Madridand Valencia. Motorway 234: connects Valencia with Aragón,Castilla-León and the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Valenciacoach station is located on the bank of the former course of theRiver Túria. This is the stopping place for regular services arrivingfrom all over Spain. Just cross the river and catch EMT. Thefollowing EMT buses reach the project: 19, 35, 95 y 40.

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City of Arts and Sciences.

AddressPont de Monteolivet 146013 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.cac.es/

. Built in the dried up river bed of the Turia, the City of the Artsand Sciences is an architectural ensemble comprising a sciencemuseum (El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe), planetarium(L'Hemisfèric), opera house (El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía),promenade (L'Umbracle) and a parking structure. Built between1998 and 2003, the buildings are surrounded by shallow pools.Two streamlined bridges, also designed by Calatrava, cross thepromenade between the opera house and the planetarium. Otherthan the water, Calatrava also used white concrete and shatteredtiles to tie the various buildings together into a whole. Closestto the city centre, the 75m high opera house acts as an urbanlandmark. Its most striking features are the shell that wraps thebuilding?s volumes as well as an enormous cantilevered plume. The planetarium occupies the centre of the complex. Like acolossal eye, its glass facades open to reveal the sphericaltheatre.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2003.

Architect.



Contributed by.

Bjorn_Utpott.


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photo: Anandi Schiphorst . photo: Anandi Schiphorst.

photo: Wojtek Gurak

Opening hoursFree acces 24/7.

. How to get thereValencia coach station is located on the bank of the formercourse of the River Túria. This is the stopping place for regularservices arriving from all over Spain. Just cross the river andcatch EMT. EMT buses: 19, 35, 95 y 40. Motorway A-7 and N- 340road: go across the Comunidad Valenciana from North to South.Motorway A-3: connects Madrid and Valencia. Motorway 234:connects Valencia with Aragón, Castilla-León and the north of theIberian Peninsula.

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L'Umbracle.

AddressPont de Monteolivet 146013 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.cac.es/umbracle

. Following catastrophic flooding in 1957, the river was diverted inthe southern section of the city and the old riverbed, now dry, itcreated a 10 km long park crossing the city centre. It was herethat it was decided to locate the new complex of the City of Artsand Sciences, on flat land on the right bank of the final stretch ofwhat was once the River Turia. L’Umbracle is the entry port tothe City of Arts and Sciences. It is shaped by a succession of 55fixed arches and 54 floating arches of 18 meters high. On themgrows climbing plants, which will provide shade along the wholelandscaped walk and will give a feeling of a "Winter Garden".Planted with native species, palms, orange trees, rock roses,mastic trees, rosemary, bougainvillea, that change shape andcolour with every season, create different ambiences over thecourse of the walk. Inside the structure is an outdoor art gallery,called the ‘Stroll of the Sculptures’ with nine sculptures fromcontemporary authors.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


Architect.



Contributed by.

anandi_schiphorst.


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photo: Dirk Verwoerd .photo: Anandi Schiphorst

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photo: Wojtek Gurak

Opening hoursOpen from 10:00 h. to 21:00 h. Please check website www.cac.esfor scedules of films.


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L'Hemisfèric.


. Over a 2 km axis along the former course of the River Turia, 5main sections share their cultural purpose and give people thechance to participate in a futuristic and unique architecturalcomplex, in large open spaces: L'Hemisfèric, the Príncipe FelipeScience Museum, L'Umbracle, L'Oceanogràfic and the Palau de lesArts. The planetarium L’Hermisfèric was the first section openedto the public. It represents a huge human eye that comes aliveand opens up to the world: the "Eye of Wisdom". With over 4.5million spectators, this is the only auditorium in Spain with aconcave screen, 24 m in diameter, showing three audiovisualperformances: representations of astronomical phenomena in thePlanetarium, IMAX giant-screen films and state-of-the-artOmniscam Laser displays at the Laserium. Over the years,L´Hemisfèric has held courses, scientific lectures and exhibitionson astronomy, as well as hosting meetings for organizationsinvolved in giant-screen cinema and planetariums.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


Architect.



Contributed by.

anandi_schiphorst.


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photo: Dirk Verwoerd .

photo: Bjorn Utpott.

photo: Bjorn Utpott

Opening hoursLow season: from 02/01 to 30/06: 10:00 – 19:00 h. High season:from 01/07 to 30/09: 10:00 – 21:00 h.


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Prince Felipe Science Museum.


. Set up by the Regional Government of Valencia, the 'City of Artsand Sciences' has become an international landmark and thesymbol of Valencia's ambition to present an image to the worldbased on cultural tourism and dynamism. Over a 2 km axis alongthe former course of the River Turia, 5 main sections share theircultural purpose and give people the chance to participate in afuturistic and unique architectural complex, in large openspaces: L'Hemisfèric, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum,L'Umbracle, L'Oceanogràfic and the Palau de les Arts. Thisspectacular building covering over 40,000 m2 is designed to allowordinary people to get closer to science and technology. Itresembles a prehistoric-skeleton the longitudinal building, withthe repetition of the modular, transversal sections along thewhole length of the site, is a spatial tour de force.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


Architect.



Contributed by.

Bjorn_Utpott.


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photo: Enrico Cano .

photo: Enrico Cano.

photo: Enrico Cano

Opening hours

. How to get thereLocated on the waterfront in Valencia's harbour.

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Luna Rossa Team Base.

AddressCalle del Doctor Juan José Dòmine 46011 ValenciaSpain

. In June 2007, the final race of the 32nd America's Cup started.Following the victory of the Swiss Alinghi team in 2003, the racereturned to Europe after 150 years. Switzerland beinglandlocked, Valencia was selected to host the event and RenzoPiano was asked to design the Italian Luna Rossa team's operatingbase in the Spanish city. Piano has personified the programme,the race and its history in the building's skin. The unusualconstruction is made of 50 recycled Kevlar sails that have beenused in races in recent years. The sails were preassembled onaluminium frames. To improve its technical performance, andparticularly its rigidity, the cladding was reinforced withpolycarbonate panels; special sails were used to keep out windand water. The 485 panels form a semi-transparent patchworkbox, reminiscent of a cubist sculpture.

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Public access unknown!.

Completion.

2006.

Architect.

Renzo Piano. Cooperating designer.

E. Baglietto. Cooperating designer.

F. Cappellini. Cooperating designer.

O. Teke. Client.

Prada SpA.

Contributed by.

Kirsten_Hannema.


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photo: Paulo Simoes . photo: Paulo Simoes.

photo: Paulo Simoes

Opening hoursTuesday - Saturday: 10.00 - 14.00 & 16.00 - 20.00 / Sunday: 10.00- 20.00 / Closed on Mondays.

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MuVIM.

AddressParque de la Cultura ValenciaSpainhttp://www.muvim.es/

. Located in the Parque de la Cultura in Valencia, Spain, the MuVIMis a museum dedicated to illustration and modernity. Thisbuilding is a big concrete volume with an irregular geometry thatresponds to its surroundings, acting as a transition elementbetween the built fabric of the city and an urban park.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


Architect.

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. Client.

Diputación de Valencia.

Contributed by.

vOid.


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photo: Marco De Trizio .

photo: Marco De Trizio.

photo: Marco De Trizio

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Valencia Congress Centre.

AddressCarrer Els Ports 16002 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.palcongres-vlc.com/

. One of Europe's leading conference centres, the ValenciaCongress Centre (Palacio de Congresos) opened in 1998. Itcontains three auditoria with seating for 1460, 460 and 250. Thebuilding has been designed to provide excellent acousticconditions for conferences and similar events. The principalauditorium provides accommodation for 1460 people, but thecentre's flexible design allows this main hall to be connected viavideo and sound link to the two smaller auditioria, bringing thetotal capacity of single events to 2170 participants. The centre isan avant-garde building and is fully equipped withstate-of-the-art congress and exhibition amenities.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


Architect.

Foster & Partners. Acoustics consultant.

ARUP. Client.

City of Valencia.

Contributed by.

Marco_De_Trizio.


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photo: Mayte Piera . photo: Mayte Piera.

photo: Mayte Piera

Opening hours

. How to get thereAccess has to be booked in advance. Telephone: +34 96 328 9680.

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Principe Felipe Research Centre.

AddressCamino de Las Moreras 46012 ValenciaSpainhttp://www.cipf.es

. This centre for biomedical research is placed next to the City ofArts and Sciences of Valencia. The functional plan distinguishesbetween two main uses: an area designed for research andanother one for the services and the management of thebuilding. The research area consists of three cubic volumes,which emerge from a square flanked by the general servicesarea. These ones are enveloped with a double-skinned,translucent glass protected, horizontal aluminium slats that filterthe natural light, providing the interior with a large amount ofindirect light. Inside the building one finds the laboratories and inthe base of the towers, below ground level, a technical servicearea that provides all the technical support to the laboratories.The three cubic volumes are articulated by two glass towers thataccommodate the main stairs and lifts.

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Project is not public!.

Completion.


Architect.

Ramon Esteve Estudio deArquitectura

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.Fundacion de InvestigacionesBiomedicas

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.ramon-esteve

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