In Valencia the architect Santiago Calatrava built his futuristic “City of Arts and Sciences” (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) – very expensive, the city got poorer.
photo via flickr.com by Javier Angel López – sent to my flickr group BLOG IT! – click on the photo to enter his collection…
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In Valencia the architect Santiago Calatrava built his futuristic “City of Arts and Sciences” (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) – very expensive, the city got poorer. To attract visitors they built a new harbor for the America’s Cup (with a wall going deep into the water dividing dirty harbor water from clean America’s Cup water); very expensive, the city got poorer. Then they decided to build a street circuit round the harbor for the European Formula One Grand Prix. Valencia = where the money flows – very near to the great gesture of Calatrava’s architecture is a Kindergarten – a fence and some steel containers – no more money available for a house of stone. 25% are jobless in Valencia. Yesterday the prime minister of Spain lost his job: like in Greece and Italy times are a-changing: the Euro crisis goes on. Why?
related links:
Valencia, Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia,_Spain
Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciutat_de_les_Arts_i_les_Ci%C3%A8ncies
Santiago Calatrava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava
America’s Cup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup
Formula I
European Formula One Grand Prix, once a year
Kindergarten
no photos available, saw a TV documentation …
another photo via flickr.com by Javier Angel López – sent to my flickr group BLOG IT! – click on the photo to enter his collection…
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