5330 x 3553 px | 45,1 x 30,1 cm | 17,8 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
17 febbraio 2008
Ubicazione:
Bilbao, Biscay, Bizcaia, Vizcaya, Basque Country, North of Spain. Europe.
Altre informazioni:
The Museum Guggenheim Bilbao is a museum of contemporary art located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Designed by architect Frank O. Gehry (Toronto, Canada 1929), it was opened to the public in 1997 and lodges traveling exhibitions of art work pertaining to the Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation and exhibitions. As many of its previous works the main structure radically is carved following contours almost organic. The museum affirms not to contain a single flat surface in all its structure. Part of the building is crossed by a high bridge and the outside is covered by titanium boards and a limestone stone that was very difficult to find (in the end it was managed to find in Andalusia) same to that it was used to construct the University of Deusto, Bilbao. Height: 54 meters, (16 meters below the level of the sea). Surface: 30.000 m2 constructed, to 24, 000 m2 useful and 11, 000 m2 exhibition space. Guggenheim museum is its next to La Ría de Bilbao and was created in order to contribute to the process of regeneration of the economic structure of the Basque Country and to harness the possibilities of turning the articulated metropolitan area around Bilbao nucleus of reference of the Atlantic regions.
