How this futuristic museum revived a dying city in Spain
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 Ebraheem Imam describes how a city on the brink of collapse took a gamble on a cultural project that few…
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