To be honest, while “Ciudad de las artes y ciencias” looks amazingly cool at a distance, its kind of “shallow” when you come up close. In the sence that there i

To be honest, while “Ciudad de las artes y ciencias” looks amazingly cool at a distance, its kind of “shallow” when you come up close. In the sence that there isn’t much to do or discover once you’re inside the whole thing. For me it felt like something built for cars - while driving past it in a car or looking at it from a hotel skybar its breathtaking, but the more you get close the less interesting it becomes. I remember taking a look at Gaudy’s architectural masterpieces in Barcelona - those were much more inspirational for me as they were more fractal in nature, the more you got close the more you could discover, the guy designed the outside look down to the doorhandles on the interior doors. It was a endless maze of detail, which looked very futuristic from a distance too. I’d liken Gaudy to Steve’s Jobs where he _had_ to control all the details. Whereas Valencia’s ciudad de las artes to something designed by a committee - amazing for its purpose, but not much beyond that.