The Catalan architect, Ricardo Bofill , has ironified during the presentation of the tallest building in Valencia on his colleague Santiago Calatrava and has justified that although it is located "in the star system of the most renowned architects in the world" in some works "You drop things."

Bofill did not specify what "things" have fallen to the Valencian architect but made clear reference to the trencadisc or covering of the City of Arts and Sciences or to the demand he has suffered in Venice because one of its bridges caused pedestrians to fall , something that also happened in Bilbao .

Then, Bofill has qualified his comments and clarified that despite the criticism, "he is a good architect, even if he drops things." He has also qualified Calatrava as an architect and engineer who does "different and unusual things", but finds himself with problems of "monitoring the works" and "although he is a very good architect there is a bad management",

His argument has been that in the urban development projects that are made for the public administration, the construction of the work is very important, but also "the maintenance that is done later is crucial". In the case of Calatrava, he referred to the fact that with some projects of the architect of Benimàmet "the follow-up has suffered problems", because the financial balance of each work must be kept in mind as "it is managed and maintained".

On the management of public works, Bofill has taken the opportunity to remember that he himself has participated in the evolution of Valencia being "at the origin of the transition from Franco to the new urbanism" of the city and explained that Valencia has had urban oscillations and has It has gone from large buildings to " a more sustainable city where bicycles and skates enter ."

Finally he stressed that Valencia is a "very beautiful city with unique works of the Renaissance " and you can "learn in Valencia about the management and maintenance" of the great works.

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