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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

1997 · Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

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Modern and contemporary art museum in Bilbao, Spain

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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1997 · Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

MVRDVMVRDV

Seoul, South Korea

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1997Unrecorded
PlaceBilbao, Basque Country, SpainSeoul, South Korea
Place contextBilbao, Basque Country, SpainRepresentative site: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate16°C · 13.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind9°C · 14.3h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Silodam
FocusMuseum9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Frank Gehry
  • Winy Maas
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Gehry Partners

Notable works

  • Silodam
  • Effenaar
  • Market Hall (Rotterdam)
  • Westerdok Apartments
Typologies
  • museum
  • art museum
  • landmark
  • housing
  • building
  • house
  • office
  • landscape
  • residential
  • apartments
  • dabas
Materials
  • titanium
  • glass
  • limestone
  • glass
  • concrete
  • other
  • brick
Carbon signals

Glass, Stone, and Titanium look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Glass
  • Stone
  • Titanium

Concrete, Brick, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Brick
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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