"Plans for a new Guggenheim museum located at a nature reserve near the northern Spanish city of Bilbao have been scrapped after the museum's board of trustees voted against the controversial initiative. The outpost of the famed Guggenheim Bilbao would have been located in the coastal Urdaibai biosphere reserve, 25 miles from the city, at two sites: the former Dalia cutlery factory in Guernica and the Murueta shipyards."
"The expansion project of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Urdaibai was conceived as an institution capable of generating interactions and experiences at multiple levels in profound harmony with the natural processes around it; where the active dialogue between the landscape and artistic creation would find a relevant, unique expression; as a place to explore the common ground between art, research and ecology,"
Plans for a Guggenheim outpost in the Urdaibai biosphere reserve near Bilbao were abandoned after the museum's board of trustees voted not to proceed. The proposed project would have used two sites, the former Dalia cutlery factory in Guernica and the Murueta shipyards, connected by a pathway. The board includes representatives from the Basque regional government, the provincial council of Biscay, and the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. After a two-year reflection on feasibility studies the board cited territorial, urban planning and environmental constraints as the reason for cancellation. Environmental organisations had campaigned against the project.
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