Alameda Bridge & Underground Station

https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/saschuma/gomezat_0919.jpg

VRA Core

Title

Alameda Bridge & Underground Station
Puente de la Exposicion

Agent

Santiago Calatrava Valls (Spanish civil engineer, born 1951)

Location

Valencia, Valencia, Spain
39.10713

Date

1991-1995 (creation)
20th century

Style Period

Twentieth century

Cultural Context

Spanish

Worktype

built works
bridges (built works)

Material

painted steel

Technique

construction (assembling)

Measurements

130 m (length, main span) x 26 m (width)
163 m (length, total)

Subject

Architecture and City Planning
architecture
cityscape
engineering and industrial design
manufacturing
bridges (built works)
City planning

Description

View of subway station
Both an architect and civil engineer (with a doctorate on the technology of space frames), Calatrava produces dynamic structural forms that challenge traditional practice in both architecture and engineering. His approach to bridge design, for example, is based on the view that bridges can be used "˜to add energy to the landscape'. [Alameda Bridge is an arch bridge which is a roadway and pedestrian walkway.]

Rights

© Javier Gomez

ID

GOMEZAT0919

Source

Javier Gomez

State Edition

35 mm slides

Citation

Valles, Santiago Calatrava, Alameda Bridge & Underground Station, 1991-1995 (creation), Valencia, Valencia, Spain, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Javier Gomez. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/15850.

Output Formats

Item Relations

This item has no relations.