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... [+

IA+B SANAA   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 Arquitectos   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

AZAB BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   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

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,

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