Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain by Frank Gehry

Moving into western modern Architecture.

Frank Gehry, one of the most famous and influential architecture in the world. His work lies in the deconstruction era with Deconstructionism stye; or to be refer as post-structuralist. His work changes a lot of thing in the industries, being a study model etc. Gehry often working with a form that are chaotic land unexpected shapes, playing with materials such as steel and metal.
Styled his work to be sometimes unfinished, or crude, The art work that sometimes criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao of Spain is one of Gehry's most well know work.
The museum is a modern and contemporary art, it is built along side the Nervion River which runs through the city of Bilbao. The building has been hailed as a 'signal moment in the architectural culture', because it represents 'one of those rare moments when critic, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something.

The building shape is chaotically designed with an abstract look and materials used. surface structure were made out of titanium. The hybrid area of the building is the atrium, which designed to look as it is in-between outdoor and indoor, the wall made out of class with steel structure mixing with limelight stone and bricks. The material confront in contrast.
South of the museum facing the city, which designed to have the same dialog with the city, in the other hand, the North which facing the river, have the fluid shapes with titanium sheet  emphasis of  movement of the river.

Inside are rooms that do not resemble each other, with square sand curves, uses different materials within the shape.

The museum itself becomes one of its sculpture.

Related Source :
http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbao/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao
http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/the-building/inside-the-museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry