Museum
L'Àgora
C/ d'Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 1A, Quatre Carreres, 46013 València, Valencia
Futurist covered plaza by Santiago Calatrava, once a tennis arena, now a cultural center.
This guide to L'Agora in Valencia opens on an unfinished roof over a live tennis match in October 2009, the last and largest piece Santiago Calatrava built for the City of Arts and Sciences. You'll hear how a building budgeted at about forty one million euros ballooned past ninety million before it even opened, and how it lurched through a fashion week, a Formula One concert and a New Year's Eve party before falling silent for six years of leaking glass and arguments over who should pay. It traces the fight over the building's fate as much as the building itself.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.