MAIO   Spain   The building creates a continuous frontage overlooking the Deusto ria, zigzagging along its course and rising to connect it with the urban fabric behind. The complex features four types of modular apartments with rooms connected by a corridor... 

estudioHerreros   Spain   An old warehouse occupies the heart of a block in the urban expansion of Bilbao. It is accessed through a long and narrow tunnel that crosses the ground level of the residential junctions. Its interior contains a simple program that addresses the bas

Vaillo + Irigaray    Spain   The Navarre-based practice of Antonio Vaíllo and Juan Luis Irigaray has come first in the contest to renovate the Basque Museum of Bilbao. Drawn up in collaboration with Jesús Moreno y Asociados and MOEST Arquitectos, the scheme works on the historic

abr/+/arquitectos   Spain   The new CSD KUNSTHAL design school center occupies an industrial pavilion in Zorrotzaurre, an artificial island in Bilbao, that has been renovated by abr/+/arquitectos, which works from offices in Madrid and Hondarribia. The firm’s founders, Jesús Ar

Snøhetta José Ramón Foraster   Spain   An ascending route takes visitors up to the last floor, where they discover how the museum opens to the landscape. The plaza, previously enclosed, rises to connect with Doña Casilda park, and contains an outdoor amphitheater for cultural events... [+

SANAA IA+B   Spain   The emblematic spaces of the Arriaga and Chillida squares are enhanced by floating elements, which favor traffic and accessibility by providing covered resting spaces. Euskadi Square is renovated to become a welcome point to the site... [+]

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The extension is incorporated as a new piece to the heterogeneous sum of interventions. A cubic volume of concrete rises above the ground occupying the empty space between the two buildings, and creating a strong contrast with them... [+]

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The proposal strictly observes the competition brief, on the understanding that it calls for the ‘extension and refurbishment of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum’ and not for a new museum. The first step was therefore to assess the current location, which

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group AZAB   Spain   The geometry of the new landscape is defined as a smooth curve that moves between the buildings of 1945 and 1970. This line generates a surface that rises at three points to produce the necessary spaces for the extension of the museum... [+]

Foster + Partners Luis María Uriarte   Spain   The proposal restores the original entrance of the museum and turns Plaza Arriaga into the new heart along the museum’s spine. A new structure rests across the buildings of 1945 and 1970, adding 2,000m² of gallery space on a single, open flexible fl

Foster + Partners   Spain   The British architect Norman Foster has with the Basque Luis María Uriarte won the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts, which wanted 2,250 square meters of its current floorage renovated and at least 5,140 square meters added, and in a

VArquitectos   Spain   The building goes up in the neighborhood of Bolueta, by the Nervión River, on a plot previously occupied by several constructions related to the steel industry. In 2005 a project was launched to regenerate the area with the construction of seven larg

Álvaro Siza   Spain   The main hall of the University of the Basque Country is located in the old port area of Bilbao’s estuary, transformed today with prominent buildings like the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry, the Deusto University Library by Rafael Moneo, and the Ib

César Azcárate IDOM   Spain   Popularly known as “the Cathedral,” the old stadium of the Athletic Club of Bilbao dated back to 1913, and was one of Spain’s oldest. In 2004 the City Council began to plan its replacement with a more modern facility with greater capacity, located pr

ACXT Arquitectos   Spain   The archive is located on María Díaz de Haro street, near Bilbao’s main street, on a plot between party walls measuring 20 meters wide and 70 meters deep, belonging to one of the urban blocks in the expansion areas of the city. Below grade, the build

Coll-Barreu Arquitectos   Spain   The new headquarters of the Basque Health Department go up on a corner site of the capital of Vizcaya, the last plot that remained empty in the heart of the administrative and financial district of Bilbao. Until now, the institution’s staff was distr

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The buildings of Deusto University have always played a leading role in the shaping of the left bank of the river estuary, testifying in this way to the institution’s commitment to serve the city. For over one hundred years, Deusto has been not only

Pelli Clarke Pelli   Spain   La torre de 165 metros y 35 plantas donde se alojarán las oficinas centrales de Iberdrola se situa sobre la plaza de Euskadi, en la zona de Abandoibarra. El edificio se levanta como un obelisco de vidrio con un cuerpo de planta triangular que mengua

Enric Miralles Lorenzo Fernández-Ordóñez   Spain   Bilbao ría 2000 ha cumplido su décimo aniversario. Creada con participación de las administraciones estatal, autónoma y local para recuperar con otros usos los enclaves de la capital vizcaína y Baracaldo obsoletos tras la reconversión industrial, est

Luis María Uriarte   Spain   Located in the proximities of the Guggenheim Museum and the Euskalduna Palace – thoughon the background with respect to the estuary –the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao takes up one end of Casilda Iturritza park, the main green space of the northwest o

Santiago Calatrava   Spain   With Frank Gehry's  Guggenheim Museum as landmark, Bilbao has launched an ambitious urban renovation plan that has also resourced to well-known names to design its most significant infrastructures. The extension of Sondica Airport is part of this gro

Frank Gehry   Spain   Bilbao bet on the winning horse of brand-name image and architecture in order to provide the city with a new identity. And the metallic flower that grew from the banks of the Nervión fulfilled more than its expectations, converting itself into an exc

Norman Foster   Spain   Engineering and architecture are complementary disciplines in this project, that renews the transportation system of the city and converts it into an optimistic symbol of rebirth. The connection between Bilbao and its metropolitan area is expressed c

Just like Mr. Pump in Hergé’s cartoons, Norman Foster has a true passion for automobiles, a devotion which in his architecture has made him pursue beauty and high technology in equal shares. Making the world an accomplice in his vision, the British a

Foster in Bilbao

Norman Foster   The extensive exhibition curated by Norman Foster at Bilbao’s Guggenheim celebrates the influence wielded by the automobile on modern culture.

The years leading up to the 1920s were marked by terrible tragedies, a pandemic, and a world war, traumas that awakened in society a desire to embrace life and break with the past. The decade was marked by an explosion of creativity and freedom that

Norman Foster   I had wanted to collaborate with Otl Aicher on the graphics and signage for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Frustratingly, the politics of commissioning on that project ruled it out, but I remember someone asking me why we needed him and responding,

Ever since Solomon R. Guggenheim traveled to Europe with Baroness Hilla Rebay for a guide and met Wassily Kandinsky in his Bauhaus classes, the wealthy industrialist’s foundation has been closely tied to the oeuvre of the Russian master. Now the Basq

Guggenheim Bilbao   As a pioneer of abstraction and a renowned aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is among the foremost artistic innovators of the early twentieth century. In his endeavor to free painting from its

On view through 10 January at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, which has organized the exhibition in collaboration with the Barbican Centre in London, is the first retrospective show ever to be offered in Spain on the American abstract expressionist

The Navarre architects Antonio Vaillo and Juan Luis Irigaray have won the competition organized by the Basque Museum in Bilbao, through a proposal that acts upon the institution’s historical buildings and reinstates the large cloister as the heart o

Scheduled to open at Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum on 2 October, and to stay there until 19 January, ‘Thomas Struth’ is the most extensive showing of the career of the acclaimed German photographer born in 1954. More than 130 works – including a number

The British architect Norman Foster and the local office of Luis María Uriarte are the winners of the competition to renovate and enlarge the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, lately one of the most coveted projects in the context of cultural buildings

There are ‘fox artists’ and there are ‘hedgehog artists.’ The former go about leapfrogging, they know many things; the latter know one big thing, limiting themselves to a single discovery which they devote their entire careers to. To this second cate

Phase one of the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts has ended with the shortlisting of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos; Rafael Moneo; Foster + Partners with LM Uriarte Arkitektura; BIG with AZAB and Proskene; Snøhetta with Foraster Arquite

The Guggenheim of Bilbao, now 20 years old, is perhaps the most influential building of the latest two decades, not so much because it is Frank Gehry’s greatest work but because it represents a way of transforming and activating the image of cities t

Francisco Javier San Martín   Louise Bourgeois was a retrospective artist. Acknowledgment of her by her equals in the world of art came when she was already sixty years old, and popularity in the sphere of the general public, at ninety. As if in service of poetic justice, when re

In this lecture given by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the theme is the Bilbao branch of the Guggenheim Museum, which opened in 1997. Grand in scale and clad in titanium, this work of Frank Gehry had been seen as a sp

Julia Ramírez Blanco   The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proposes a thematic approach to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, unique artist of primitivism, pop, and blackness.

Norman Foster is the first recipient of the BIA Award of Bilbao Bizkaia Architecture, a platform recently created by the Basque Country and Navarre Institute of Architects. The prize acknowledges the role that the Metro of Bilbao has played in regene

Iñaki Bergera   De almacén de alcoholes municipal a espacio cívico, la centenaria Alhóndiga ha cambiado de función sin perder carácter público; por el camino han quedado proyectos insólitos. 

Javier San Martín   Al entrar en el patio central de la Royal Academy de Londres nos recibe abruptamente una gran escultura formada por esferas pulidas que reflejan, deforman y multiplican su entorno, especialmente los cambiantes tonos del cielo londinense. Tall Tree an

La centenaria Universidad de Deusto, cuya sede central se encuentra a orillas de la ría de Bilbao, enfrente del Museo Guggenheim, ha inaugurado su nueva Biblioteca y Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación, un edificio de diez plant

Juan Antonio Ramírez   Quienes se han educado en la tradición austera, casi puritana, del Movimiento Moderno (y éste es el caso de la mayoría de los arquitectos actuales) sienten un vértigo desasosegante cuando se intenta conjugar el surrealismo con el diseño. Es como si q

Javier San Martín   Arquiescultura reúne un buen número de piezas, esculturas y maquetas arquitectónicas, con algunos cuadros, dibujos, fotografías y vídeos, que buscan desentrañar la relación entre estas dos formas de organización del espacio. La exposición tiene un su

Maite Paliza Monduate   Bilbao  2019  
Museo Bellas Artes Bilbao   - 212 Pages 

Francisco J. García de la Torre Bernardo I. García de la Torre   Architecture