Ensuring past glories live again

The world’s most visited museums do far more than simply serve as dusty, seldom-visited repositories for past artifacts. They unite, inspire and encourage all who see them to step inside and become one with history. As a leading architect with the legendary Gehry partnership, Edwin Chan’s eye-catching curvilinear designs continue to captivate both passers-by and international awards panels. His many triumphs to date include the American Centre in Paris, France, the M-Art-a Museum in Herford, Germany and the Frederick R. Wiseman Art Museum in Michigan, US. Completed in 1997, Chan’s design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain is a classic example of the extent of his breathtaking architectural sensibilities. Effortlessly blending seemingly impossibly twisted, titanium-clad lines, the US$100,000,000 structure represents a truly monumental marriage of architecture of engineering. In almost perfectly replicating the nearby Nervion River’s shape and visual orientation, Chan’s design has transformed Bilbao into a modern architectural mecca.