Plans for a new Guggenheim museum located at a nature reserve near the northern Spanish city of Bilbao have been scrapped after the museum’s board of trustees voted against the controversial ...

Five-star Hotel Carlton was built in the Twenties and is the grand dame of Bilbao. It’s situated prominently on busy Plaza Moyúa. Inside, time has stopped, and the décor and service epitomise a ...

Frank Gehry may be the architect most associated with Bilbao, but he is not the only one. Stand by the Basque city’s state-of-the-art football stadium—built at a cost of €211 million, half of it from ...

The sunlight dances off the titanium plate coverings, reflected in gold and silver. The contours of the unique structure fan out imaginatively towards the sky. “The metallic flower” is what some call ...

The Bilbao Effect: is 'starchitecture' all it’s cracked up to be? A history of cities in 50 buildings, day 27 Every struggling post-industrial city has the same idea: hire a star architect (like Frank ...