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

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The proposal modifies the urban layout to ‘place’ the museum on the square, and is envisaged as a new and final extension of the first Museum, doing away with earlier ones; the new volumes generate interstitial spaces like the courtyard-cloister and

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... [+]

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... [+]

Snøhetta Toño 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... [+

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

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   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

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

Los navarros Antonio Vaíllo y Juan Luis Irigaray han ganado el concurso convocado para renovar el Museo Vasco de Bilbao. El proyecto actúa sobre los edificios históricos del museo y recupera el gran claustro como centro del espacio expositivo. El emp

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

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

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

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

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