The Bridge in Bilbao Leading Over to the Guggenheim

This is the bridge in Bilbao that leads over to the city’s famous Guggenheim Modern Art Museum.

Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim to incorporate the designs of pre-existing architecture that surrounded the new museum.The bridge in Bilbao that leads over to the Guggenheim Modern Art Museum, designed by Frank Gehry.In the case of this bridge this meant adding a false section that ‘bridged’ the design of the bridge with that of the museum. It looks good when crossing the bridge but I’m not so sure about this angle.The bridge leading to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, SpainThese are the stairs that we trudged up in order to cross the bridge to see the Guggenheim at night.
Stairs at night leading up to the bridge in Bilbao The next day we went back because we wanted to see the inside the museum.
The bridge in Bilbao that leads over to the Guggenheim Modern Art Museum, designed by Frank Gehry's But the stairs looked even more intimidating in the daytime.
Stairs in the daytime leading up to the bridge in Bilbao, SpainUntil we saw this small sign, that we had missed the night before, indicating an elevator!
Mural just below the Bilbao Bridge with a sign indicating there's an elevator Bilbao BridgeUnderneath the bridge is intriguing too!The machinery under the bridge in Bilbao in Northern Spain

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