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About Calatrava White Ribs

Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts & Sciences rises in white concrete and white steel — forms that read as rib cages, whale skeletons and bleached bone, lashed together by radiating horizontal ribs. Photographed always against the brilliant Valencian sky, the structure becomes a drawing: bone-white linework suspended in saturated blue. This system takes that reading literally — a deep sky-blue ground, white skeletal members, and a bright sky highlight, presented as an engineered blueprint, never cream.

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Origin
Valencia, Spain, Western Europe
Era
1990–2010 (built 1991–2004)
Key figures
Santiago Calatrava · Félix Candela
Movements
structural expressionism · calatravan neofuturism

Calatrava White Ribs design spec

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MichromaHeadings
Barlow Semi CondensedBody
ui-monospaceMono
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