1 / 21

The Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao, Spain. Spain’s Demographics. Population: 46,754,784 Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, and Basque 2%  Spain is beside France and Portugal. Spain’s Population. Age Male Female Total 0-14 3,646,614  3,435,311 15.1%

cassia
Download Presentation

The Guggenheim Museum

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

  2. Spain’s Demographics • Population: 46,754,784 • Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, and Basque 2%  • Spain is beside France and Portugal.

  3. Spain’s Population Age Male Female Total 0-14 3,646,614  3,435,311 15.1% 15-64 16,036,556 15,637,090 67.7% 65-0ver  3,389,681 4,609,532 17.1% Growth Rate: 0.574% Birth Rate: 10.66 births/1,000 population Death Rate: 8.8 deaths/1,000 population

  4. The architect decided to clad this urban-scale sculpture with titanium plating, used with galvanized steel and lined with tar paper. The thickness of the titanium plates was just 16/1000 inch.

  5. To help the problem of being lifted by the wind , the 66 tons of metal was shaped using a special lamination process in order to form 33,000 metal scales.

  6. For the stone parts ,nearly 33,000 square yards of amber beige stone were quarried at Huascar in the region of Granada. The slabs are 2 inches thick and were polished after they were laid.

  7. Design : Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Construction: 1993-1997. Dimensions: Total area is 265,008 square feet. Use: Museum, Administrative offices and a Aquatic garden.

  8. Frank Gehry One The most famous building designed by Frank is the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, described by Time Magazine as "The Building of the Century". Frank Gehry (1929-) was born in Toronto, Canada and has become a naturalized American citizen. The architect has won the most prestigious architecture & design awards incl. Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989) American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2000).

  9. The Cost! It totaled $228.3 million. This includes $12.1 million for architect Frank Gehry, $6.4 million for executive architect Idom, $100.8 million to construct the building and surroundings, $24.7 million to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, $9.9 million for the land, $44.5 million to establish the collection and $30.3 million for other operative costs before opening

  10. Exterior views

  11. Puppy, a giant dog made of flowers, guards the entrance to the museum. Puppy blooms in both winter and summer, giving visitors to the museum a warm welcome year round. 

  12. Review • The Guggenheim Museum is located in Bilbao, Spain. • It’s designed by Frank Gehry. • It took $228.3 million dollars to build.

More Related