Guggenheim Bilbao Concepts

Fodor's Barcelona

by Fodor's · 5 Apr 2011

PM–1 AM, the Olympic Port is 2 km (1 mi) up the beach, marked by the mammoth shimmering goldfish sculpture by Frank Gehry of Bilbao Guggenheim fame (Bilbao got a leviathan; Barcelona got a goldfish). In the shadow of Barcelona’s first real skyscraper, the Hotel Arts, the Olympic Port rages

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Sports and the Outdoors Shopping Previous Chapter | Next Chapter | Contents Top Reasons to Go | Getting Oriented By George Semler When Frank O. Gehry’s Museo Guggenheim Bilbao opened in 1997, few would have predicted that an art museum would be able to singlehandly transform Bilbao’s character and economy from a dreary

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a city as the Guggenheim did with Bilbao. Even the Basque Country’s longtime political and social conflict came to a temporary halt after the Guggenheiming of Bilbao. The city once known as a steel and boatbuilding giant reinvented itself as a cultural capital not only with this art museum, but with

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to the Guggenheim itself, where San Sebastián superstar Martín Berasategui runs a dining room as superb as its habitat. About the Hotels Ever since the Guggenheim reinvented Bilbao as a design darling, the city’s hotel fleet has expanded and reflected (in the case of the Gran Hotel Domine, literally) the glitter

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with lesser-known masters such as Sorolla and Zuloaga. Then walk five minutes through the modern Abandoibarra gardens or along Alameda Mazarredo to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao—with luck the sun will be giving a shine to its titanium-covered walls. Continue to the river and turn right to reach Santiago Calatrava

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Guggenheim (valid 1 yr) €15; free Wed. | Tues.–Sat. 10–1:30 and 4–7:30, Sun. 10–2 | Station: Moyúa. Fodor’s Choice | Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Described by the late Spanish novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as a “meteorite,” the Guggenheim, with its eruption of light in the ruins of Bilbao’s

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be more than just a dumb building; I wanted it to have a plastic sense of movement!” Covered with 30,000 sheets of titanium, the Guggenheim became Bilbao’s main attraction overnight. Despite unexpected cleaning problems (Bilbao’s industrial grime knows no equal), which was solved in 2002 using a customized procedure

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undulating titanium flukes and contours of this beached whale. With most of its modern art drawn from New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Bilbao Guggenheim is a magnet for visitors from all over the world. The free Audio Guía explains everything you always wanted to know about modern art, contemporary

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| www.colmadoiberico.com | AE, DC, MC, V | Closed Sun. | Station: Moyua, Abando Fodor’s Choice | El Perro Chico. $$$–$$$$ | SPANISH | The global glitterati who adopted post-Guggenheim Bilbao favor this spot across the Puente de la Ribera footbridge below the market. Frank Gehry discovered, on the walls here, the color “Bilbao blue”—the

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: Wi-Fi. In-hotel: 2 restaurants, bar, gym, parking (paid) | AE, DC, MC, V | EP | Station: San Mamés. Miró Hotel. $$–$$$ | Perfectly placed between the Guggenheim and Bilbao’s excellent Museo de Bellas Artes, this boutique hotel refurbished by Barcelona fashion designer Toni Miró competes with the reflecting facade of Javier Mariscal’s

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Around, Valery Bareta/shutterstock. The Costa Brava, Helio San Miguel. Inland to Girona, nito/Shutterstock. Southern Catalonia: Montserrat to Tarragona, Vladimir Sazonov/shutterstock. Excursion to Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao by aherrero http://www.flickr.com/photos/aherrero/2520582937/ AttributionLicense. Introducing Bilbao, KLV/Shutterstock. Bilbao Planner, jarnogzjarnogz/istockphoto. Getting Around, ilbusca/istockphoto. Exploring Bilbao

Spain

by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis · 14 May 1997

Gift Brazil’s extraordinary architect Oscar Niemeyer (b 1907), who gave birth to his home country’s capital, Brasilia, might manage to upstage Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim museum with his plans for the Centro Niemeyer (Click here), on which work began in 2008, in the Asturian coastal industrial city of Avilés. A

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), which is on duty everyday and is equally helpful. Sights MUSEO GUGGENHEIM Opened in September 1997, Bilbao’s Museo Guggenheim (944 35 90 80; www.guggenheim-bilbao.es; Avenida Abandoibarra 2; adult/under 12yr/student €12.50/free/7.50; 10am-8pm daily Jul & Aug, 10am-8pm Tue-Sun Sep-Jun) lifted

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Easter almost guaranteeing you a wait of over an hour. The museum is wheelchair accessible. MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES A mere five minutes from Museo Guggenheim is Bilbao’s Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum; 944 39 60 60; www.museobilbao.com; Plaza del Museo 2; adult/student €5.50/4

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do you like least about Bilbao? For me, it is a little bit sad to see all the foreigners coming to Bilbao only for the Guggenheim. Bilbao is not a tourist destination, at least not a classic one. Bilbao is a personal destination. What is your favourite restaurant in Bilbao? Don’t

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reverse. There are departures up to four times a month from April to October. The package includes various visits along the way, including the Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Cuevas de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, and the Covadonga lakes in the Picos de Europa. The food is as pleasurable for the palate

Lonely Planet Best of Spain

by Lonely Planet · 1 Nov 2016

Shopping Eating Drinking & Nightlife Information Salamanca Salamanca’s Cathedrals Sights Tours Shopping Eating Drinking & Nightlife Information Sierra de Francia Where to Stay Basque Country Museo Guggenheim Bilbao Pintxos in San Sebastián Bilbao Guernica (Gernika) Lekeitio San Sebastián Hondarribia Oñati Vitoria Where to Stay Northwest Coast Picos de Europa Camino de Santiago Santiago

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’s most memorable eating experience. But this is also a relentlessly dynamic cultural region with visitors drawn to Bilbao’s shimmering titanium fish, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, as well as riverside promenades, clanky funicular railways, an iconic football team and quality museums. STEFANO POLITI MARKOVINA / GETTY IMAGES © ROSS DURANT PHOTOGRAPHY / GETTY IMAGES

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in Bilbao. And the Basque Country has reinvented itself as one of Spain’s style and culture capitals, with Bilbao’s Museo Guggenheim Bilbao leading the way. In this Chapter Museo Guggenheim Bilbao Pintxos in San Sebastián Bilbao Guernica (Gernika) Lekeitio San Sebastián Oñati Vitoria Basque Country in Two Days With so little time

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, you’ve little choice but to spend a day in Bilbao with the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao as your visit’s centrepiece, as well as time spent in the town’s old centre and food market. Spend your second day in San

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high season. Many coastal towns have good-value guesthouses run by families. For more on where to stay, see Click here. TOP EXPERIENCE Museo Guggenheim Bilbao Bilbao’s titanium Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is one of modern architecture’s most iconic buildings. It almost single-handedly lifted Bilbao into the international art and tourism spotlight. © FMGB

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. GUGGENHEIM BILBAO MUSEUM. PHOTO: ERIKA BARAHONA EDE Great For… y Don’t Miss The atrium – the interior counterpoint to the facade’s flights of fancy. 8 Need

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to Know Map www.guggenheim-bilbao.es; Avenida Abandoibarra 2; adult/student/child from €13/7.50/free; h10am-8pm, closed Mon Sep-Jun) 5 Take a Break The museum has

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a high-class restaurant Click here, but also try Bistró, with menús from €20. o Top Tip The Artean Pass joint ticket for the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao offers a reduction of €2 off the admission price. The Exterior Some might say, probably quite rightly, that

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the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is more famous for its architecture than its content. But Canadian architect Frank Gehry’s inspired use of flowing canopies, cliffs, promontories, ship shapes, towers

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way to more pleasant destinations. But Bilbao’s graft paid off when a few wise investments left it with a shimmering titanium landmark, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao – and a horde of art-world types from around the globe started coming to see what all the fuss was about. The Botxo (Hole), as

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. Bilbao 1 Sights 1 Basilica de Begoña F3 2 Catedral de Santiago E4 3 Euskal Museoa E3 4 Museo de Bellas Artes C2 5 Museo Guggenheim Bilbao C1 6 Plaza Nueva E3 7 Zubizuri D2 2 Activities, Courses & Tours 8 Bilboats D2 7 Shopping 9 Arrese D2 10 Chocolates de Mendaro C3

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: La Feria del Jamón E3 18 La Viña del Ensanche C3 19 Mina Restaurante E4 20 Mugi B3 21 Museo del Vino D3 22 Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao C1 Sorginzulo (see 13) 6 Drinking & Nightlife 23 Cotton Club B3 24 Geo Cocktail Lounge C2 25 Lamiak D4 3 Entertainment 26 Euskalduna Palace B2

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27 Kafe Antzokia D2 28 Teatro Arriaga E3 1 Sights Many first-time visitors associate Bilbao with its world-famous art museum, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. But there’s a wide variety of interesting sights around town, from architectural highlights to landmark bridges, from bustling plazas to the winding streets of

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serious culinary creativity: think along the lines of spider crab with passion fruit or frozen ‘seawater’ with seaweed and lemon sorbet. Reservations are essential. Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao Contemporary Basque €€€ map Google map (%944 00 04 30; www.neruaguggenheimbilbao.com; tasting menu from €65, mains €30-35; h1-3pm & 8.30-9.30pm

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Aguirre 12; h3pm-1.30am Tue-Sun) For a refined post-dinner cocktail, search out this lounge bar in the area south of the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Expect subdued lighting, low-key tunes and expertly crafted cocktails. Cotton Club Club map Google map (%944 10 49 51; www.cottonclubbilbao.es; Calle de

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ROHDE / GETTY IMAGES © Euskalduna Palace Live Music map Google map (%944 03 50 00; www.euskalduna.net; Avenida Abandoibarra) About 600m downriver from the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is this modernist gem, built on the riverbank in a style that echoes the great shipbuilding works of the 19th century. The Euskalduna is home

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to help answer questions. There are also branches at the airport (%944 71 03 01; h9am-9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-3pm Sun) and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (Alameda Mazarredo 66; h10am-7pm daily, to 3pm Sun Sep-Jun). The Bilbao tourism authority has a very useful reservations service (%902 87 72 98

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bus departs from a stand on the extreme right as you leave arrivals. It runs through the northwestern section of the city, passing the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, stopping at Plaza de Federico Moyúa and terminating at the Termibus (bus station). It runs from the airport every 20 minutes in summer and every

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. It runs to and fro between Basurtu, in the southwest of the city, and the Atxuri train station. Stops include the Termibus station, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao and Teatro Arriaga by the Casco Viejo. Tickets cost €1.50 and need to be validated in the machine next to the ticket dispenser before

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painted by Goya. o Best Galleries Museo del Prado, Madrid Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Museu Picasso, Barcelona Teatre-Museu Dalí, Figueres Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao / © FMGB. GUGGENHEIM BILBAO MUSEUM. PHOTO: ERIKA BARAHONA EDE Picasso, Dalí & Miró Pablo Ruíz Picasso (1881–1973) underwent repeated creative revolutions as he passed from one creative phase

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the eye-catching metro system in Bilbao and Spain’s tallest building the 250m Torre Caja Madrid. But it was Frank Gehry’s 1998 Museo Guggenheim Bilbao in the same city that really sparked the quirky-building fever. Now the list of contemporary landmarks includes Jean Nouvel’s spangly, gherkin-shaped Torre

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by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner · 16 Feb 2023 · 353pp · 97,029 words

in Bilbao, Spain, it is a spectacular, glowing building unlike anything seen before, as much of an artwork as those on display inside. Understandably, the Guggenheim Bilbao is often portrayed as the product of nothing more than the architect’s imagination and genius. More cynical observers see it as an example of

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seemed more likely to deliver what the Basques wanted, or so Gehry argued. The resulting building thrilled architecture critics and ordinary people alike, and the Guggenheim Bilbao was an overnight sensation. Tourists flooded the city. And they brought money. In the first three years of operation, almost 4 million people visited the

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than $1 billion (in 2021 dollars) into the region.5 Frank Gehry’s imagination, genius, and ego were certainly involved in the creation of the Guggenheim Bilbao. But the building was fundamentally shaped by the project’s goal. As Gehry’s record shows, he is perfectly capable of designing buildings that are

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Great Wall of China, a first for a building whose architect was still alive.1 We have already encountered the second masterpiece. It is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The renowned American sculptor Richard Serra called it “one of the greatest achievements of architecture in the twentieth century.”2 When a 2010 survey

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the world’s leading architects and architecture experts to name the most important works since 1980, the Guggenheim Bilbao was by far the top choice.3 Many people consider the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao the greatest buildings of the past century. I agree. The design of the Sydney Opera House

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sprang from genius. The architect was Jørn Utzon, a relative unknown when he won the global competition to conceive it. The Guggenheim Bilbao was also the product of genius. Designed by Frank Gehry, it is arguably the greatest work of an architect so original that the only category

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over the estimate, one of the largest cost overruns for a building in history. Worse, the Sydney Opera House destroyed Jørn Utzon’s career. The Guggenheim Bilbao was delivered on time and on budget. To be precise, it cost 3 percent less than expected.4 And as we saw in the previous

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his completed masterpiece with his own eyes. It’s a tragedy fit for opera. THE BUMP THAT REDEFINED ARCHITECTURE The story of how the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao came into existence is much less dramatic—and much happier. Although it was Gehry who convinced officials in Bilbao to build a new museum on

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with clients, deciding what works and what doesn’t. And this is just the beginning of his process. After landing the contract to design the Guggenheim Bilbao, Gehry and Chan spent the better part of two years working through iteration after iteration, with the work moving from the decidedly analog world of

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first design entirely done by CATIA and was made possible only by CATIA. The curves now flowed. Only five years later, in 1997, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened. The transformation from the bump in Germany to the elegant curves of Bilbao only eight years later is nothing less than exceptional both technologically

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proof in this is there were no change orders, and that’s a pretty unheard-of result for a 76-story tower.” Years after the Guggenheim Bilbao made Gehry one of the world’s most celebrated architects, he made a guest appearance on an episode of The Simpsons: Marge sends a letter

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. “Frank Gehry, you’re a genius!” he shouts. Cut to Gehry presenting a model of Springfield’s new concert hall, which looks remarkably like the Guggenheim Bilbao.16 Gehry came to regret the episode. He did it as a joke, but people took it seriously. “It has haunted me,” he explained to

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is wrong. In fact, it’s the opposite of the truth. The degree of care and precision that Gehry brought to the planning of the Guggenheim Bilbao was, and is, highly unusual in the world of architecture—and elsewhere. I’ve spoken with Gehry several times over the years, in his studio

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we can build it at a price that the owner can afford.”19 It’s hard to overstate the contrast between the planning of the Guggenheim Bilbao and that of the Sydney Opera House. The former is the perfect illustration of “Think slow, act fast”; that is, of how to do projects

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“gray blob” to an Oscar-winning movie in theaters. I was prepared for it to be quite different from what Gehry did to plan the Guggenheim Bilbao. After all, an animated movie is as different from an art museum as an opera house is from a wind farm. Yet in its fundamentals

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, demanding, extensive testing producing a plan that increases the odds of the delivery going smoothly and swiftly. It’s what Frank Gehry did for the Guggenheim Bilbao and has done for all his projects since. It’s what Pixar does to make each of its landmark movies. It’s what fast-growing

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minimum viable product approach isn’t possible, try a “maximum virtual product”—a hyperrealistic, exquisitely detailed model like those that Frank Gehry made for the Guggenheim Bilbao and all his buildings since and those that Pixar makes for each of its feature films before shooting. However, the creation of a maximum virtual

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, look to less sophisticated tools, even technology at the opposite end of the spectrum of sophistication. Remember that Gehry developed the basic design of the Guggenheim Bilbao, and so many other renowned buildings, using sketches, wooden blocks, and cardboard models—technologies available in the average kindergarten classroom. Pixar’s mock-up videos

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to avoid that. There is one small fact I didn’t mention when contrasting the planning and construction of the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Jørn Utzon (born 1918) was thirty-eight years old when he won the competition to construct his visionary building while Frank Gehry (born 1929

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career in booming postwar Los Angeles, where he took on a long list of small but increasingly ambitious projects. By the time he tackled the Guggenheim Bilbao, he had more experience than most architects do the day they retire. The experience gap—or rather, the experience canyon—between the two architects is

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another major reason why the creation of the Sydney Opera House was a fiasco while that of the Guggenheim Bilbao remains a model to follow. We all know that experience is valuable. All else being equal, an experienced carpenter is a better carpenter than an

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of experience, in contrast, gave him an escalating education in the politics of big projects. His toughest lessons came in his biggest commission before the Guggenheim Bilbao: the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Like the Sydney Opera House, it was conceived in a difficult political environment with powerful people and

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brutal as the experience was, the process of building the Disney Concert Hall taught Gehry a host of lessons that he used in building the Guggenheim Bilbao and has used in projects ever since. Who has power, and who doesn’t? What are the interests and agendas at work? How can you

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intellectual exchange, and you will see their influence throughout the book. Frank Gehry and Ed Catmull are main practical influences. When Gehry built the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on time and on budget I knew I had to pick his brain, because if you can build architecture like that on time and on

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in the main text. Because of the controversy and delays with the Disney Concert Hall, although the Guggenheim Bilbao was started three years after the Disney Concert Hall, it was completed six years before it. The Guggenheim Bilbao therefore forced the issue with political and business leaders in Los Angeles, with local media, and

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Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays

by Witold Rybczynski · 7 Sep 2015 · 342pp · 90,734 words

extent pioneered by Le Corbusier himself—of the white shoe-box International Style. After Ronchamp, modern architecture was never quite the same. Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim is equally iconoclastic. With its ballooning shapes and titanium swirls, its colliding forms and unusual spaces, it has been described as biomorphic sculpture, an intergalactic

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were objects of veneration for architecture students, but they were not paid much attention by the general public. Today’s public definitely knows about the Bilbao Guggenheim; since its 1997 opening, it has attracted almost four million visitors. According to the London Financial Times, to date the museum has helped to generate

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cities, casting an envious eye on the silver artichoke, decide, “We want one of those.” Seattle got off the mark early. In 1996, before the Bilbao Guggenheim was even complete, the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a Jimi Hendrix fan, commissioned Gehry to design a rock-and-roll museum and performance venue

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aluminum shingles. These forms resemble the fragments of a giant multicolored broken guitar left over after a particularly violent rock concert. Two years after the Bilbao Guggenheim opened, the Corcoran Gallery of Art announced that Gehry would build a major addition to its century-old building in Washington, D.C. The new

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the public, sometimes a long time after they are built. So why do developers think that they can create instant icons? Frank Gehry and the Bilbao Guggenheim, that’s why. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in northern Spain, opened in 1997. Using innovative computer technology, Gehry designed and built

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, unlike any other building that people had ever seen. Moreover, unlike most avant-garde creations—one thinks of atonal music or Nouvelle Vague cinema—the Bilbao Guggenheim was fun. The Bilbao museum is not the first modern architectural icon; it was preceded by the Sydney Opera House. Jørn Utzon’s stunning waterside

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attract patrons, a downtown luring tourists and conventioneers, or a real estate developer looking to draw buyers: people will come. Despite the success of the Bilbao Guggenheim, the Bilbao effect has not proved easy to replicate, not even for Frank Gehry. His Experience Music Project for Paul Allen, the Microsoft billionaire, was

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Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao—not decorated sheds, were what clients and the public wanted. Frank Gehry is, of course, the architect du jour. The Guggenheim in Bilbao is not only at the cutting edge of architectural design but also a hit with the public. Hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to

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tends to overwhelm the exhibits; the Bilbao museum, on the other hand, is generally considered a sympathetic setting for modern art. The antecedent to the Bilbao Guggenheim in Gehry’s work is the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Gehry won the architectural competition for the hall in 1989, but

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’s reputation, it now appears likely that construction of the Disney hall will begin soon. If it is built, it will likely outshine even the Bilbao Guggenheim. It, too, is an assemblage, a three-dimensional collage of billowing forms, covered not in titanium but in limestone. Models of the interior of the

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by Mark Kurlansky · 4 Jul 2010

the city saw a strange new sight below. The metal was whiter and fresher than anything else on the riverfront. And it had the name Guggenheim. How Bilbao ended up with a Guggenheim museum, paid for by Basque taxpayers, was a demonstration of the inner workings of the Basque Nationalist Party, the

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world. The size of their land and their population never seems to moderate Basque ambitions. TO CALCULATE the exact cost to Euskadi taxpayers of the Bilbao Guggenheim is complicated, or perhaps the leadership wants it to be complicated. The figure usually mentioned is $100 million, which is equal to $56 for each

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the New York Times architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, called the museum “the most important building yet completed” by Gehry. The most intriguing side of the Bilbao Guggenheim is the back. Set against a man-made pond, the shiny titanium structures look like a cartoon port, the sort of place where tugboats with

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et leurs jeux en plein air. Bordeaux, 1900. Zulaika, Joseba. Crónica de una seducción. Madrid: Nerea, 1997. (An amusing and insightful study of how the Bilbao Guggenheim came into being.) Zintzo-Garmendia, B. Jeux et sports Basques. Biarritz: J & D Editions, 1997. BASQUE LITERATURE Aldekoa, Iñaki, ed. Euskal poesiaren antologia. Madrid: Visor

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by Deyan Sudjic · 27 Nov 2006 · 441pp · 135,176 words

of 1949, whose book on postmodernism was first translated into Mandarin in 1986. According to Jencks, ‘The rhetorical part of the brief was describing the Guggenheim in Bilbao… Though height was not mentioned, they clearly wanted a landmark.’ Jencks recalls his initial caution. ‘I was afraid of being duped, that whatever I

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implications for the ongoing employment prospects of fencing masters, wigmakers, tavern keepers, courtesans and claret importers, was the construction, like some sort of seventeenth-century Bilbao Guggenheim, of an impressive new Scottish parliament building. The place was shut down after the Act of Union, finding a new role as Scotland’s High

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bit as sincere, even if it is less famous and less knowing than that of the man who put a giant topiary puppy outside the Guggenheim in Bilbao. But her attempt to capture the spirit of a divided country liberated from the Stasi yoke in the form of a pack of horses

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appointed was going to have Eli Broad as their real client, a billionaire with whom Gehry had already had a series of unhappy experiences. The Bilbao Guggenheim catapulted Gehry into an orbit far beyond the limits of Los Angeles. His design was a sensation because it looked nothing like an art gallery

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-new fantasy palace sprawling over no less than 42,000 square feet. The unbuilt house gets twelve pages in the catalogue, second only to the Guggenheim in Bilbao with fourteen. Gehry tactfully suggests that the Lewis project allowed him to explore the themes that have shaped his work ever since. People who

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, were widely seen as surrendering the museum’s dignity. These windfalls did no more than stave off the prospect of financial disaster temporarily. Opening the Bilbao Guggenheim netted the museum a $20 million fee from the Basque government, which in addition took care of the salaries, the running costs and the acquisitions

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quit if he lost control of the design. It’s hard not to see Broad’s loan of part of his collection directly to the Guggenheim in Bilbao for a temporary exhibition without going through New York as a deliberate twisting of Krens’s tail. Shows in Bilbao that originate in New

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come up again and again when yet another sadly deluded city finds itself labouring under the mistaken impression that it is going to trump the Bilbao Guggenheim with an art gallery that looks like a train crash, or a flying saucer, or a hotel in the form of a twenty-storey-high

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since Frank Lloyd Wright, and he acquired much the same aura that Frank Gehry attained a quarter of a century later when he completed the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Since then, Graves has declined into the construction of a sequence of exhibitionistic holiday resorts on a huge scale. There is a melancholy feel

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the size of much less-well-known institutions – into a global art circus, positioned conceptually somewhere between a casino and a department store. Opening the Bilbao Guggenheim netted the museum a $20 million fee from the Basque government, but the Guggenheim was forced to draw on its endowment fund to meet its

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

by Witold Rybczynski · 9 Nov 2010 · 232pp · 60,093 words

years. If a building fails to capture its owner’s favor, however, even architectural greatness will not protect it from the wrecker’s ball. The Bilbao Guggenheim is barely a decade old, so it is much too early to know how its idiosyncratic architectural style will age, aesthetically and functionally, although its

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usually make poor urban neighbors, and a city of icons risks becoming the architectural equivalent of a theme park—or the Las Vegas strip.* The Bilbao Guggenheim succeeded because it is a brilliant crystal in a staid setting of sturdy nineteenth-century buildings. Successful examples of urban design, such as seventeenth-century

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stores, 101–5 Big Ideas, 58. See also City Beautiful movement; Garden City movement; Radiant City Bilbao Effect, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 199 Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (Spain), 133–35, 137, 140 Boca Raton, Florida, 106 Bon Marché stores, 97 Boston, Massachusetts: Bellamy’s vision of, 29; and benefits of cities

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(New York City), 57, 64, 89, 90, 91 grid planning model, 9, 13, 40, 71, 108, 164 Gropius, Walter, 46 Gruen, Victor, 82, 98 Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain), 133–35, 137, 140 Gulf Oil Corporation, 108 Gwathmey, Charles, 131 Habitat 67, 190 Hall of Fame (Seattle), 137 Hampstead Garden Suburb (England), 32

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words

, that won’t help the renter who doesn’t care for art and now has to pay more for her apartment. The success of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum has lent credence to the view that cultural institutions can be successful urban renewal strategies. Frank Gehry’s iconic structure has certainly spurred tourism

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Work?” 65 from 1.4 million visitors in 1994 to 3.8 million in 2005: Plöger, “Bilbao City Report,” 30. 65 attracts a million visitors: “Guggenheim Bilbao Receives 5% Fewer Visits,” El Mundo, www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/01/12/cultura/1231778022.html. 66 nine hundred new jobs: Plaza

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, “Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,” 459. 66 cost the Basque treasury $240 million: Ibid., 461. 66 the National Centre ... closed the same year: “Debts Rock Pop Museum,” BBC News, Oct.

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Republic of Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Herbert Warren, 3d ed. New York: Random House, 1973. Plaza, Beatriz. “The Return on Investment of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, no. 2 (June 2006). Plöger, Jörg. “Bilbao City Report.” Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Economic