The Bilbao Effect | Documentary

How the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao helped reinvent a run-down Spanish port and created an urban revival.

This film shows how culture can be a radical force for urban change. In the 1980s, the northern Spanish port of Bilbao was a dirty, run-down, old industrial city when the Basque government and regional authorities struck a deal on an ambitious proposal – to build a Guggenheim Foundation museum on a polluted stretch of riverbank. In this documentary, the Arab architect and filmmaker…

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