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Bilbao revisitied: 20th Century's last great building

Frank Gehry's signature building points way to creative 21st Century architecture

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.



One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "single moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something." The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.



Immediately hailed as the most important architectural structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.

Cool New Buildings from around the World

Here are some fascinating and inspiring buildings; modern creative architecture from all over the globe:

Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai









Oceanografica in Valencia Spain








Vodafone building in Porto, Portugal








Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies, China





Curvy building in Capetown, South Africa





National Aquatics Centre, The Water Cube - Beijing, China






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Joe