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 **__THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO__**

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. 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 curves on the building were to appear random. The architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light". When it was opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism, although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement. Architect Philip Johnson called it "the greatest building of our time".

The museum's design, and construction, serves 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. Its brilliantly reflective titanium panels resemble fish scales, echoing the other organic life forms that recur commonly in Gehry's designs.

This wonderful and majestic structure has elements unique, the buildings is immaculate with over 300 sheets of titanium that enhance the exterior since its design is not an orthodox form. These elements make the Guggenheim Museum is a work worthy of the title of Wonder of the World.

However most of the criticisms were muted by the unexpected success of the building and the museum was worldwide, bringing enormous benefits to the city and sizing the image of Bilbao positively internationally since received an award for European museum year by the museum CosmoCaixa in Barcelona.











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