Low-angle of view capture of the front of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, featuring part of Jeff Koons's Tulip sculpture
Low-angle of view capture of the front of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, highlighting the abstract sculptural nature of this amazing, groundbreaking building. Featuring part of Jeff Koons's Tulip sculpture, in the foreground. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts. The museum's design and construction serve as an object lesson in Gehry's style and method. Like many of Gehry's other works, it has a structure that consists of radically sculpted, organic contours. Sited as it is in a port town, it is intended to resemble a ship. Its brilliantly reflective titanium panels resemble fish scales, echoing the other organic life (and, in particular, fish-like) forms that recur commonly in Gehry's designs, as well as the river Nervión upon which the museum sits. Also in typical Gehry fashion, the building is uniquely a product of the period's technology. Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) and visualizations were used heavily in the structure's design
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Location: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: architect, architecture, art, bilbao, building, glass, iconic, limestone, museum, sculpture, spain, steel, stone, titanium, tourism, travel, tulps
