Monthly Archives: May 2010
Tenerife Opera House
| May 8, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Sweeping over the top of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava‘s spectacular new Opera House in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, a gigantic concrete wave shelters the cone-shaped auditorium complex. But this wave is more than a wave: it is a thumb in the eye of the modernist style that dominated 20th century architecture. Led by the…
