8 42 Art Language in use: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Read the text about about the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Some words are missing. Change the word in brackets to form the missing word for each gap (1–14). Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. What Philip Johnson called “the … 0 (great) building of our time” is … 1 (doubt) one of the most stunning constructions ever built. … 2 (situation) in urban Bilbao, the Guggenheim Museum was part of a much larger re-development programme that was created to revive an industrial city that had suffered … 3 (consider) under the collapse of the traditional industrial base in the 1980s and 1990s. The companies which had brought enormous wealth to the area – large steel mills and shipyards – had to close down and what was left were the sites of these icons of … 4 (industry). In order to combat this industrial downturn a massive … 5 (invest) programme was started which – among other things – led to the … 6 (construct) of a museum of modern art in … 7 (cooperate) with the Guggenheim Foundation. Frank O. Gehry, a Californian architect, was commissioned to design the building, and he chose to create a structure that looks most … 8 (spectacle) because of its use of various materials, among them steel, glass and titanium, which accounts for the silver skin of the facade. Today the building houses a permanent … 9 (exhibit) of modern and contemporary art … 10 (span) from the great names of the first half of the 20th century to young, upcoming Spanish and Basque … 11 (art). Since its … 12 (open) in 1997 the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has become the … 13 (dominate) visual feature of Spain’s fourth largest city making it a major tourist … 14 (attract) and an important art venue with worldwide appeal. 0 greatest 1 8 2 9 3 10 4 11 5 12 6 13 7 14 4 ✔ Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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