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Calatrava christened this structure "the feather" — a steel shell sheathed in trencadís, the broken white ceramic tile he borrowed from Gaudí and scaled up to the dimensions of an opera house. Here the form reveals its mechanics: two shells overlap at a sharp diagonal, one catching the Valencian sun in long ribbed lines of white tile, the other receding into a smooth plane of pure shadow. A column of dark glass punctuates the brighter shell, a discreet admission of function inside a building conceived, above all, as sculpture. Against a saturated blue sky, the Palau de les Arts reads less like architecture than like a wing caught mid-motion, suspended over Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences.
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