Outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, beside the Río Nervión, stand two sculptures by Eduardo Chillida, the Basque Country’s greatest modern artist, which symbolise the rejuvenation of this gutsy ...
The Guggenheim is staying in Bilbao, well, at least for the time being. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced yesterday that it was renewing its agreement with the Basque museum until 2034.
Locals and tourists alike regularly stand outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to marvel at its gleaming, Frank Gehry-designed postmodernist structure, built in 1997 at a cost of $100 ...
In the last 25 years, the architectural marvel on the bank of the Nervion River in Bilbao, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, has achieved the unexpected: It has transformed the face of a city that was ...
Standing outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, looking out across the waterfront, it is hard to believe that twenty years ago this was a post-industrial wasteland. Bilbao was built on steel and ...
As he gazes at the eccentric, titanium-plated angles of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Francisco Mulero, a tourist from Spain's Canary Islands, explains why he admires the building. "It's spectacular," ...
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has opened 'Picasso Sculptor - Matter and Body', an exhibition of the Spanish artist’s work marking the 50th anniversary of his death. If you ask someone to name a famous ...
“The same. But we would use it for a concert hall.” Much is made of the so-called ‘ Bilbao effect ’, the idea that attracting a world-class cultural institution – in Bilbao’s case, a branch of New ...
As Guggenheim Museum Bilbao turns 20, here’s relooking at the museum which made both its architect Frank Gehry and the Basque city famous the world over. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was inaugurated 20 ...
Opened 20 years ago this month, the glittering titanium museum had a wow factor that cities around the globe were soon clamouring to copy When he got to Bilbao a month before it opened, says Frank ...
This year in northern Spain the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum turns twenty years old. The mesmerizing attraction of Frank Gehry's architecture endures. The boldness of the architecture fits this rugged ...