Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Overview
Frank Gehry's titanium-clad curves on the Nervion river, the building that launched a thousand cultural regeneration plans. Richard Serra's Matter of Time fills the largest gallery, with site works by Koons and Kapoor outside. The Bilbao effect made it a case study in urban economics.
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