As the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao turns 25, we look at how the ‘Bilbao effect’ helped transform a rough Spanish port into a tourist hub – and why similar projects in some other European cities ...

The “Bilbao Effect” is a term coined after the 1997 construction of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao structure: an eye-catching and critically-renowned piece of contemporary architecture that launched ...

The Bilbao effect is viewed by many as a triumph of style over substance, a type of global branding that used to be confined to items such as fashionable shoes and whatnot.

Other cities have attempted to replicate the “Bilbao effect”. Can the model be reproduced? I don’t think replicating is the correct idea because each city will face different problems.

Eva Mendieta, associate professor of Spanish at Indiana University Northwest, is proud to bring her homeland to the region with "From Rust to Restoration: Basque Art and the Bilbao Effect." ...

Ohio State University is celebrating the reopening of its 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts after renovations that cost more than $15-million. The building, designed by Peter Eisenman, had required ...

The so-called “Bilbao effect” or “Guggenheim effect” has become an example of success for urban revival to the cities around the world. Others have competed to build landmarks and attract cultural ...

Outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, beside the Río Nervión, stand two sculptures by Eduardo Chillida, the Basque Country’s greatest modern artist, which symbolise the rejuvenation of this ...

As he prepares to move on, he tells The Art Newspaper about the “transformative power of culture” and the difficulty of replicating the “Bilbao effect” Juan Ignacio Vidarte is stepping ...