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Up close, the Palau de les Arts dissolves into noise: thousands of fragments of broken white ceramic, the trencadís technique Calatrava adopted from Gaudí, register here as a fine, uniform static rather than a deliberate pattern. The wall meets a sharp interior corner and falls away into near-total shadow, where a single curved fascia band, pale and smooth, catches the last of the light like a piece of architectural punctuation. It's a corner that could belong to almost any building, divorced of context, until the texture gives it away. Calatrava's surfaces reward exactly this kind of proximity: from a distance the building reads as sculpture, this close it reads as material.
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