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The Canadian architect Frank Gehry was a bold choice for the design of this European outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. This distinctive, titanium-clad museum opened in 1997 and was soon hailed as a leading example of the Deconstructivist style.
The facade displays some of the common aesthetics of Gehry’s work – sinuous, organically sculpted contours constructed from 0.5-mm-thick titanium panels, and an anarchic juxtapositioning of interconnected shapes and volumes to resemble a confused yet wholly unified system of architectural jigsaw puzzles.
The positioning of the building is problematic – surrounded on the one side by a forest of stacked-up shipping containers, and on the other by a heavily congested motorway. It is almost as if Gehry intended to integrate the building into both the cultural and the visual fabric of Bilbao.