How the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao helped reinvent a run-down Spanish port and created an city revival.
This movie reveals how tradition could be a radical pressure for city change. Within the Nineteen Eighties, the northern Spanish port of Bilbao was a unclean, run-down, outdated industrial metropolis when the Basque authorities and regional authorities struck a deal on an formidable proposal – to construct a Guggenheim Basis museum on a polluted stretch of riverbank. On this documentary, the Arab architect and filmmaker Ebraheem Imam describes how a metropolis on the point of collapse took a big gamble on a cultural venture that few believed in and the way that led to a a lot wider transformation. Imam tells the story himself with each architectural perception and emotional intimacy. He additionally strikes it past the shiny, titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum itself to ask what actually drives city change and whether or not the so-called Bilbao impact may be replicated in different cities all over the world.
Printed On 2 Sep 2025
