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1991–1997

When a Museum Helped Reinvent a City

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Curving titanium-clad volumes of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry.GattoCeliaco · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

Digital modelling, complex geometry and advanced fabrication created a building inseparable from its city's cultural identity.

The Rethink

A cultural building could become an active participant in urban transformation.