But in a country where the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry has captured all the architectural headlines, many might see the new-old Liceu as a retrograde step.
Mr Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, conceived in part as a challenge to Barcelona's bid for cultural primacy within Spain, has emerged as the clear winner in that rivalry.
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Starting in the mid-1990s with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, a new, sculptural style of architecture has given large-scale public art a run for its money.
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It then travels to the Field Museum in Chicago and to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
The new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao-how does it play into the Basque story?
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Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, the man behind the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, will design the building.
The final design of the car isn't as iconoclastic as Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, but Mitchell's team have made a clean break from all other aspects of car design, focussing on the relationship between people within cities and cars.
Guggenheim Museum opened a satellite in Bilbao, Spain, in 1997 designed by Mr. Gehry, museum boards around the U.S. have come to believe that all will be well if they can just hitch their wagons to a starchitect.
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Mr. Broad hopes the space will have a "mini-Bilbao effect, " drawing cultural tourists who flock to architectural icons like the Frank Gehry's titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Spain.
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