How this futuristic museum revived a dying city in Spain | Al Jazeera World Documentary
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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 believed in and how that led to a much wider transformation. Imam tells the story himself with both architectural insight and emotional intimacy. He also moves it beyond the shiny, titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum itself to ask what really drives urban change and whether the so-called Bilbao effect can be replicated in other cities around the world.
Original film title:
The Bilbao Effect
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It has been one of the most huge changes in a city ever. From industrial past to a new generation, services and touristic city. The change is obvious and cost hard work (and economical inversion). Remember that this land suffered the terrorism years ago. I live here and can tell you that the life quality now is high. You' can live calm and have almost all to a hand in a 2-3 miles distance inside the city. Even, you can go walking between main zones or take the Metro (underground, tube) and go from side to side in 10-15 mins. Guggeheim museum has been the sign and the attractive to put Bilbao in the international point, and do it very well.
How this futuristic museum revived a dying city in Spain | Al Jazeera World Documentary
Al Jazeera English
23,487 views
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 believed in and how that led to a much wider transformation. Imam tells the story himself with both architectural insight and emotional intimacy. He also moves it beyond the shiny, titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum itself to ask what really drives urban change and whether the so-called Bilbao effect can be replicated in other cities around the world.
Original film title:
The Bilbao Effect
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