Bombas Gens Centro de Artes Digitales
Former hydraulic pump factory left to ruin for decades, reborn as a digital art center after a fire nearly destroyed it.
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This guide to Bombas Gens Centro de Artes Digitales in Valencia opens with twenty-three years of decay: a hydraulic-pump factory on Avenida de Burjassot, built in 1930 by Carlos Gens Minguet and architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati, sitting empty with its roof caving in after the plant closed in 1991. It traces the factory's working decades and the 2014 fire that struck the long-abandoned complex, then follows how the Per Amor a l'Art foundation bought the ruin and brought in architects Ramon Esteve, Eduardo de Miguel and Annabelle Selldorf to rebuild around whatever survived. Stand inside the old factory walls and listen for what the machinery once sounded like.
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