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Palace of the Arts OPERA HOUSE VALENCIA, SPAIN

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SANTIAGO CALATRAVA One of the sensational buildings of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, the Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts is a large, concrete and steel opera house clad in mosaic. It is renowned for its remarkable, soaring white roof, which might be taken for the giant sculpture of a sea creature in motion. At 246ft (75m) high it is the tallest opera house in the world and contains four auditoria-two of them large (one mainly for opera, and the other for multiple uses) and a couple of smaller performance spaces. From the windows of the opera

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Seattle Central Library

editor — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:05:14 +0000

REM KOOLHAAS After detailed analysis of the basic needs of a library building, Rem Koolhaas conceived a radical architectural form to fulfill them. The arresting, multifaceted glass skin of the Seattle Central Library makes a dramatic statement in its city setting, yet the interior spaces work in practical terms. At the bottom of the building are the spacious Living Room and Mixing Chamber, the latter housing the library’s information hub. Beyond them rises the Book Spiral, a novel way of displaying the library’s collection in bookcases that spiral upward along a ramp so that volumes do not have to be

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