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Contemporary Basque Building Designs – Northeast Spain Built Environment Updates.

post updated 17 August 2025

Bilbao Architecture Design – chronological list

17 July 2025
Mugarik Gabe – EDA Drinks & Wine Campus buildings, Laguardia + Vitoria-Gasteiz, province of Araba/Álava, Basque Country, northern Spain
Design: José Carvalho Araújo architect

image courtesy of architects practice

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Bilbao Building News

Bilbao Architectural News 2021 – 2025

18 Nov 2022
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Building, Museo Plaza, 2
Design: Foster + Partners

images courtesy of architects practice
The expansion and remodelling project will restore the existing 20th century building, while creating a new public atrium space and contemporary art galleries in a floating pavilion. The expansion and remodelling project will restore the existing 20th century building, while creating a new public atrium space and contemporary art galleries in a floating pavilion.

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14 Jul 2021
Bizkaia Tower Bilbao Building, Calle / Gran Vía 1
Design: IDOM Group

photo : Aitor Ortiz
The Bizkaia tower is a building whose construction ended in 1969 and was originally used to house the headquarters of the Bilbao Vizcaya bank. It has an area of 30,400m2 divided into three basements and 22 floors above ground (the last two for installations), in all a height of close to 90m.

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Bilbao Architecture News Archive

Bilbao Architectural News 2019 – 2020

21 July 2020
Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council Offices, Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz, San Martín district, Vitoria, province of Araba/Álava, Basque Country, northern Spain
Design: IDOM

photograph : Aitor Ortiz
The City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz (AVG) has granted a leasehold for the drafting of the project, the construction and maintenance of a new building to house the municipal offices and associated amenities (including a 5-storey underground car park) in the San Martín district of Vitoria-Gasteiz, and also operating the building under lease from the city authorities.

15 July 2020
San Mamés Stadium Athletic Club of Bilbao, Rafael Moreno Pitxitxi Kalea
Design: IDOM

photograph : Aitor Ortiz
Athletic Club of Bilbao is one of the big clubs in European football and its previous stadium, over a hundred years old, was one of the legendary ones, popularly referred to as the cathedral of football.

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Bilbao Architectural News 2012 – 2018

9 Jan 2018
Floating among trees
Design: Architects A54

photograph : Nivelarte
The house, which was built in six months using the industrialized construction system of Sustainable Energy & Housing (SEH), with a steel structure and patented enclosure walls, takes up a plot of land in a residential area on the outskirts of Bilbao in a setting with oak forests situated between two streets generating a steep slope.

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30 Oct 2017
Human Cities

photo courtesy of Human Cities
The travelling Human Cities exhibition in 2016-2018 presents the process and results of co-creating activities in the experimental Labs of all the Human Cities partners in ten different European cities.

15 Oct 2017
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Reflections

visualisation from Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
The shimmering exterior surfaces of Frank Gehry‘s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was transformed into a unique, sensory experience in Reflections. This spectacular projection mapping commission by 59 Productions celebrated the museum‘s 20th Anniversary with the citizens.

8 Oct 2017
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 20th Anniversary Events

image from Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

5 Jan 2017
Musikene, Music Centre of the Basque Country, Donostia (Basque) / San Sebastián (Spanish)
Design: GAZ arkitektoak

photo © Aitor Ortiz
A solid dark volume that when it is carved, a bright and luminous interior is discovered. The building projects along the city of San Sebastian, the artistic activity developed inside, music.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 20th Anniversary

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3 Oct 2013
Mandragora Tattoo Studio, Doctor Fleming Kalea, 4, 48980 Santurtzi, Bizkaia
Design: BABELstudio

image courtesy of architects office

5 Feb 2013
Orona IDeO – San Sebastian Technology Park, Basque Country, near Bilbao, north east Spain
Design: Xabier Barrutieta

photo © Xabier Barrutieta
Orona IDeO – innovation city is the flagship design of the new extension of San Sebastian’s Technology Park that frames in a public-private collaboration between Orona (company that focuses its activity on lifts, escalators and moving walkways) and the Technology Park.