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Bilbao Smurfs Statues for 50th Birthday
It's Smurfday in town! What else is three apples tall with a white hat, short tail and blue all over? Almost anyone from these last 3 generations can quickly tell you the answer. The Smurfs, those little cartoon... World's best bus stops
Ever sat at a dreary old bus stop and thought, "I bet I could build a better one of these things?" A cappuccino bar, a washroom, maybe some high-speed internet access, a lemonade stand...Well back in reality, here's... Bomb blast in Spain Injures Seven
Though a cease-fire was declared by ETA in 2006 following the Madrid bombings, the group has kicked up its campaign of violence again with persistent bombings. ETA has now killed more than 825 people since the1960s... Power cut as severe storm batters Britain
It's raining cats and dogs out there!" Winds of more than 80mph are battering parts of the UK, as what forecasters have called an "exceptional" storm sweeps through the British Isles. Traffic chaos: Read the latest... Spanish police defuse twin ETA bombs
""It was an attempt at a serious attack," said Basque government justice minister Joseba Azkarraga, adding that he had no doubt it was the work of ETA. The failed attack follows a car bombing of a Basque Socialist politician`s bodyguard in October, in which he escaped with... Architect Zaha Hadid unveils radical plan for Bilbao
Ten years ago, Bilbao celebrated the opening of the Guggenheim museum
that was to put the rundown industrial city in Spain's northern Basque
region on the map, and draw in a million visitors a year. It has... Frank Gehry’s buildings seem to be from another planet
Whatâs the most difficult and stressful task that a human being can perform? Brain surgery on the President of the United States maybe, or reentering the Earthâs atmosphere in a malfunctioning Space Shuttle? Or perhaps it would it be the task of designing a...The Colossus of Baghdad
"As an outpost, this vast compound reeks of one thing: imperial impunity. It was never meant to be an embassy from a democracy that had liberated an oppressed land. From the first thought, the first sketch, it was to be the sort of imperial control center suitable for the...Fuck Frank Gehry
In 2001, Barnaby Harris, as he put it recently, âgot married to a beautiful woman who was extremely passionate about her yoga practice.â Not long after, he decided to have a special T-shirt made for her birthday. It was white with blue lettering:...The Oblate Spheroid, An Earthworm's View - Fossil Forest Find
"Last week, geologists surveying a coalmine 250 feet below the current surface of the Earth's crust, came upon a preserved 300 million year old forest. Measuring over four-square miles in size, the discovery is the...Amazing Embraces and emtional bandwidth?
Wow. A piece of clothing that can receive information via Bluetooth and then turn that into a hug..yes a hug...delivered by your clothing!What next? It's like Bladerunner or something. You can watch Cute Circuit's..."Race" to save Basque language
The race, or korrika, is a two-week long affair that endeavors to cover as much of Spain's Basque territory as possible. Racers stop only briefly along their course, and race even through the night. Money is raised...The Architect: A relatively dark conversation with Frank Gehry
LOS ANGELES--Frank Gehry is 77, white haired, paunchy, and when we talked one afternoon in late autumn the topics of age and death never seemed far off. Mr. Gehry is, of course, one of the world's great architects, creator of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and enough of an...
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