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This is the Palau de les Arts at its most abstract: one of the building's two trencadís-clad shells, the broken white ceramic tile Calatrava borrowed from Gaudí and scaled to the dimensions of an opera house. Seen this close, the cladding loses its architectural alibi entirely and becomes pure surface, a fine, fractured grain catching the Valencian sun. Below, the shell's edge falls into a wedge of pure shadow, and a single white strut crosses the frame on the diagonal, the kind of structural gesture that doubles, in Calatrava's hands, as drawing. Against a saturated blue sky, the feather that crowns Valencia's opera house resolves into something closer to abstraction: tile, shadow, and one clean line.
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