This picture was taken on a balcony of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Designed by Canadian architect Frank Gehry and opened in 2003. The museum has given the city a huge boost and has now become a tourist attraction. The museum has fantastic shapes and is covered with scaly titanium plates that sparkle in the sun. The architect Frank Gehry is a representative of deconstructivism. This is a modern architectural style in which the structures appear to be a confusing collection of randomly placed planes and twisted lines that together give the impression that the structure could collapse at any moment.Visitors entering through the hall leading to the exhibition rooms find themselves in the atrium, the heart of the museum and also one of the building's most curious spaces. It has a kind of metal-finished flower-shaped skylight that lets in light to illuminate the warm and inviting space.
From the atrium, visitors can access a terrace covered by a canopy supported by a single pillar. It has two functions: it is protective and artistic.
The exhibition spaces are organised in three floors around the central atrium. They are connected by a system of ceiling-hung undulating walkways, by glass lifts and by several "stair towers".
I am Frans Scherpenisse and have been photographing since the age of 17. Also semi-professional for many years, wedding photography and corporate photography. I live and work in France... Read more…