Bilbao’s renewal was accompanied by a new public transit networks that spread all around the city as well as a citywide commitment to biking and walking infrastructure. The Spanish city of Bilbao is ...

An L train emerges from the tube above the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. (Chronicle photograph) Most architects and people who appreciate architecture are ...

I remember the days when we arts writers were continuously invited to press conferences that were not about the arts. They were about architecture. The building boom in the Seattle area alone was ...

It can be argued that the Bilbao effect really began when Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph, Philip C. Johnson, and their contemporaries arrived on postwar campuses. They sold themselves as Modernists, but ...

A friend who recently returned from the Santiago Pilgrimage Route in Spain shared a story about deviating from the path to visit Bilbao. It was for one specific reason: to see the Guggenheim Museum, ...

Contrary to what evangelists of the "Bilbao effect" and sports stadium advocates would have you believe, a recent report from a UK government policy initiative cautions that major sports and culture ...

Frank Gehry, the architect whose undulating, titanium-sheathed museum turned little-known Bilbao, Spain, into an international travel destination and ushered in an era of spectacular form-making, has ...