Hello friends
Today I present to you the pride of my city.
To put you in a situation, I will tell you that my city was an industrial city that was almost dead.
When they told us that an original project was going to be done and it would be one of the most prestigious museums in Europe.
The people of Bilbao have a lot of fame of braggarts and we all said:
It is a Bilbainada.
The location would be on the shore of the estuary.
An estuary that at that time was polluted and the abandoned land of an old factory.
We were all expectant as our city was dying and aging little by little.
But all this changed in 1993 Frank Gehry began the works of this project.
The truth is that I have no words to say what this has meant for us.
The city began to raise its head, to be proud and appreciate the design and the new materials.
In 1997 it was over.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Now he makes everyone visit him, tourists come to see him, but that's another matter.
I always tell you that I have no idea of architecture and design, but seeing him, living with him there is something that I am very clear about.
That Frank Gehry, made not a building but a work of art.
A metal body with titanium skin as if it were a fish.
We used 33,000 pieces of titanium half a millimeter thick, each unique and with a slightly different color.
The shape from above is like a boat, which is very appropriate in my city.
The shapes are unique, curves and unimaginable angles.
It is also a building that changes, depending on the weather, something that few buildings can say adapts to our mood, because it does not reflect like glass buildings, but camouflages itself like a chameleon.
He looks like Narciso in the estuary but he deserves it.
Glass, titanium and concrete formed something unique and made my entire city begin to modernize.
Each viewing angle is different, a unique building, inside and out.
All this seen from a distance.
When you enter the building, everything is spacious and bright modernity.
Particularly the museum is the building, with its rooms with modern, avant-garde exhibitions and many times I do not understand.
As I was saying, thanks to him, our city has received a number of tourists, which has recovered us from the industrial crisis and not only that, but it has also removed pollution by becoming a city with cultured tourism.
He has also achieved more, to appreciate architectural art and to think that if we modernize we create beauty and prosperity.
I suppose Frank Gehry will be proud of his creation, but we are more than safe, he changed us, he brought us into the 21st century with beauty, he taught us to appreciate different architecture, not tall towers brushing the sky as if they had no end .
Rather, a ship put us on land, a ship full of dreams and illusions.
Here she left you the links to the construction
Guggenheim a titanium chameleon
construction photography
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