CaixaForum Valencia opens
Enric Ruiz-Geli Cloud 9- Type Cultural center Culture / Leisure
- Date 2022
- City Valencia
- Country Spain
Designed by Santiago Calatrava, L’Àgora reopens in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences as the ninth CaixaForum in Spain, after an intervention carried out by the Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9). The ‘living cells’ that give the construction content feature two exhibition halls, an auditorium seating 300, a bookstore, and a restaurant. Fundación la Caixa has invested 19 million euros for the reuse of the building, which has floor space of 10,000 square meters and whose metal structure rises 80 meters. The inaugural exhibition is ‘Pharaoh: King of Egypt,’ organized in collaboration with the British Museum.