Just a few meters away from the famous Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao is located Gran Hotel Domine. It is a luxury five-star accommodation, comprises 145 rooms. Its designers are Javier Mariscal and Fernando Salas with their respective teams. The hotel was designed, in the same spirit as its neighbor – the Guggenheim Museum – one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. Amongst the dining options count the Buena Vista Terrace that offers a spectacular view over the museum from the hotel’s rooftop terrace.

This ribbon-like construction is an unique hotel in Spain. The hotel is designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry – the architect of the epoch Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Wine hotel “Marques de Riscal” is nestled in the “City of Wine” – in the heart of the Rioja.

The hotel has 43 guest rooms that feature a comfortable atmosphere and unique design. You can enjoy the views of the vineyards from any of the eight terraces located in the two wing building.

The hotel’s Spa – “Caudalie Vinotherapie” offers a steam room, invigorating shower and 14 therapy rooms with huge variety of “wine therapy” massages and treatments. All products are made of grape’s extract! Also there are indoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, fitness centre and a wine tasting room.

The sports complex is an uneven volume that complies with multiple conditions in the lot. The center is located in Bilbao, Spain. Bilbao is the largest city in the Basque Country. The city has 354,145 inhabitants (2006) and is the most financially and industrially active part of Greater Bilbao, the zone in which almost half of the Basque Country’s population lives.

The structure generates small exterior space and empty interiors ones to adapt itself to the environment. There’re tremendous swimming pool, basketball hall and well-equipped fitness hall.

The project is bare, unitary spots complex, which host physical activities and is open to the transformed nature and changing city.

The public sculptures and monuments have become a contemporary exciting areas over the last 15 years. Artist can do their best work in public scene. Koon’s ”Rabbit”, for example was part of Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade in 2007. The Koon’s art presents the main exchange of public sculptures. His buoyant forms reach deep into observers childhood with accompanying feelings of hope and optimism.

 

”Puppy” by Jeff Koons at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

 

”Puppy” is strongly lovable triggering a laugh-out-loud visual delight that expanded the sense of the observer into human capacity of joy. The flowery semblance of fur made ”Puppy” almost living fresh like us.

 

This is a Kapoor Bean public sculpture by British artist in Millennium Park, Chicago. The sculpture converts humorous and sublime.

Miro Hotel is located in the city centre of Bilbao Spain, just 200 m from the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Miro Hotel is designed by old fashioned principles, which provide a modern vision of luxury. The hotel facade makes a strong statement and creates a light box effect at the night. The questrooms have soothing colour palettes and textures, curtains rather than walls, separate work and living areas. And the hotel’s Miró Bar features long, low-slung lines that suggest a sleek version of modernity while providing Bilbao with a truly chic watering hole.

For the food lovers Bar Miró, offering a selection of delicious snacks and cocktails.

Each room has flat LCD TV´s, DVD players, CD and DVD selection, minibar, safe, free DSL and wireless internet access throughout the hotel, air conditioning, room service, laundry, garage with valet parking, shuttle service.

The new terminal of Bilbao Airport, Spain is a production of Aerodynamic roof over the administrative areas, restaurants and waiting areas. So this exciting architecture is design by the architect Santiago Calatrava. The investment is 43 million Euros($39million). It covers an area of 25, 000 square meters and will be able to handle up 3 million passenger per year.

The Bilbao Airport has been designed to limit the impact of ancillary buildings. The new innovations are the expansion of the airfield by 500 meters, this will increase the airport payload operations. Also the construction of a new control tower, which improve the airport’s control facilities.

The entrance to the passenger hall in the new terminal building is 140m long and the hall has a height of 20m. The distance from the entrance to the apron is 26m.

For Santiago Calatrava aesthetics on the airport are very important because it is the gateway to the Basque capital and the area has recently seen the addition of some spectacular new buildings, such as the Guggenheim museum.

The four-storey car park, for instance, is tucked into a grassy embankment, out of sight and mind once the vehicle has been parked. Inside the building there is a similar aesthetic concern. The floors are of shining marble and passengers reach the aircraft by way of the departure hall and the four-storey departure gallery that lies beyond it, connected to the aircraft by steel gangways.

On one side it runs down to the waterside of the Nervión River, 16 meters below the level of the rest of the city of Bilbao. One end is pierced through by the huge Puente de La Salve, one of the main access routes into the city. The Guggenheim Muse um Bilbao is a collection of interconnected blocks housing galleries, an auditorium, a restaurant, a museum store and administrative offices. These buildings have as their central focus a single architectural composition. With its towering roof, which is reminiscent of a metallic flower, the museum will enliven the riverfront and serve as a spectacular gateway to the city. The Guggenheim Bilbao attracted 2 million people in its first year of existence.
The building itself is an extraordinary combination of interconnecting shapes. The mathematical complexity is built with the sinuous stone, glass, and titanium curves. The museum designed with the aid of computers. The glass walls were made and installed to protect the works of art from heat and radiation. Eleven thousand square meters of exhibition space are distributed in 19 galleries. Inside the gallery spaces are comprised of three different types-for permanent collections, for temporary exhibits – elongated rectangular space extending toward the Puente de la Slave Bridge and seven distinct galleries of unique spatial quality for selected living artists. Large-scale artworks are housed in an exceptional 30 meter wide, 130 meter long gallery free of columns and with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on display there.

Located in the heart of the Rioja wine region, taht will be the perfect place for a relaxing break or small meeting. 43 modern, comfortable suites feature a modern, comfortable atmosphere and unique design by Frank O. Gehry. All are equipped with luxuries such as LCD TV, CD player, Coffee/Tea Maker, Marble Bathrooms and High Speed Internet Access (ADSL and wireless). Enjoy the views of the vineyards and the town of Elciego, while sitting in the bay windows.

The main restaurant is set to become one of Spain’s leading centers for fine gastronomy, combining traditional Rioja cuisine with modern influences by the well-known Echaurren Restaurant (1 Michelin star). Furthermore, the hotel will offer a wine bar in a more informal setting, a rooftop bar and lounge with panoramic views and open fireplace, a wine tasting corner, cooking school, and an ancient wine cellar, which was converted to a banqueting space.
The Caudalie Vinothérapie® Spa will be the backbone of the leisure facilities, offering an indoor swimming pool, hammam, fitness, and a wide variety of massages and treatments featuring “wine therapy.” All products are made using the best that grapes have to offer, designed exclusively for Caudalie Vinothérapie.
Guests will also have access to the Marqués de Riscal vineyards, the Wine Museum & Shop, and the state-of-the-art process and elaboration center.
Additional leisure activities in the area include two golf courses within 35 kilometers, tours of the surrounding nature and hills by foot, bike, or horse, and “Ruta de Vino,” an established tour which explores the Rioja wine region by car. If visiting during the winter months, the Valdezcarray ski resort is only 50 kilometers away.
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