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.
Putting a great collection in this perspective, and in this building, as an act of total aesthetic collaboration makes the Bilbao Guggenheim one of the most significant, as well as one of the most beautiful museums in the world today.
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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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He worked as the assistant to former Guggenheim director Thomas Krens, who oversaw the building of the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
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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Using this method, the report concluded that the building was likely to be more expensive than some of the leading tourist attractions in the world, including Disneyland in Paris, the Guggenheim in Bilbao and the London Eye.
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It then travels to the Field Museum in Chicago and to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
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The new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao--how does it play into the Basque story?
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.
Timothy Mason, formerly with the Museums and Galleries Commission, said he hoped that the building will "do for Margate what Gehry's Guggenheim has done for Bilbao".
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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Here the Guggenheim is seen as this master plan to bring tourism to Bilbao.
In a shrewd gamble, the Basque government invited the Guggenheim, already involved in several European ventures, to build in Bilbao.
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Thanks in part to cycle club members, it broke all of the Guggenheim's attendance records (1.5 million visitors in New York, Las Vegas and Bilbao, Spain).
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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