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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Spain near the Bay of Biscay. Founded c. 1300, it is a major port and industrial center.
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- proper noun The major city in the
Basque Country of northernSpain .
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Examples
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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.
Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012
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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.
Guy Horton: Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin Guy Horton 2010
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While the Guggenheim in Bilbao caused quite a stir, the world is home to so many other museums who have a quieter beauty.
10 Beautiful Museums Around The World (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
Guy Horton: Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin Guy Horton 2010
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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? 2009
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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.
Guy Horton: Architecture's Terror and Wonder: A Conversation with Blair Kamin Guy Horton 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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