Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A city of northern Spain near the Bay of Biscay. Founded c. 1300, it is a major port and industrial center. Population: 353,000.
Wiktionary
- n. The major city in the Basque Country of northern Spain.
Examples
“The construction of modern arts institutions has been indelibly altered by what he calls the "Bilbao effect," whereby "everyone thinks a new museum has to look wacko," referring to Frank Gehry 's wobbly, curvaceous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.”
“While the Guggenheim in Bilbao caused quite a stir, the world is home to so many other museums who have a quieter beauty.”
The Huffington Post: 10 Beautiful Museums Around The World (PHOTOS)
“At the same time, we've seen a profusion of iconic cultural buildings and public spaces as cities sought to duplicate the "Bilbao effect" of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.”
The Huffington Post: Guy Horton: Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin
“At the ten year celebrations of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the announcements were made first in Basque, and secondly in Castilian, demonstrating the importance of the language to the natives of the region.”
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Anyone for a glass of kalimotxo and a pintxo?
“September 29 2008 edgargonzalez. com has a photo filled post about the new headquarters of the Basque Health Department in Bilbao, Spain that was designed by Coll-Barreu Architects.”
“Frank Gehry set up an appropriately pretentious art museum in Bilbao and Madrid is just trying to match its audacity in all the wrong ways.”
“Several homes in Bilbao sell boxes of dates - at prices which are extremely reasonable, even if the weights marked on the packages are somewhat suspect.”
“Villa de Bilbao is the nearest village to the twin attractions of cheap dates (the kind that grow on palm trees) and an amazing landscape of easily accessible desert sand dunes, Las Dunas de Bilbao, only a nine-iron sandtrap shot from the highway.”
“When Panda Software in Bilbao created its first anti-virus product at the end of 1990, it was able to detect 62 viruses; there are now more than 120,000.”
“In fact, Mr. Gehry's museum succeeded so well at attracting visitors -- millions of them -- that the phenomenon of iconic architecture acting as a tourist draw became known as the Bilbao effect.”
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