The Opening of Alhondiga in Bilbao, Cultural, sports and living Center

Philippe Starck went to Bilbao, Spain, to inaugurate his new architectural project. AlhóndigaBilbao is a leisure, cultural, and wellbeing center directed towards the personal growth. Philippe Starck renovated these 43.000 square meters of surface dedicated to the activities which support the love of knowledge and to the awakening of the cultural sensitivity. The culture, knowledge and pleasure are joined together in an innovative and multidisciplinary space - a point of life to divide, learn and especially, to appreciate with your family and your friends.

“The true subject of Alhondiga, Bilbao, is not to make a sculpture but to glorify life. Each second is different, life is very diverse and rich. Alhondiga is the crystallization of life. In lower part of these three buildings, full and heavy, all the area is free, like a course of miracles. It is the place of the village, the center of life. Today, I do not know any place in the world where there is all at the same time. It is not the easy way which interests me, it is, once more, the richness of life. Alhondiga is the elegance of the minimum, the elegance of the accuracy of a certain form of voluntary poverty. And yet everywhere one looks at, there are things which occur. It is a machine to create energy. » Ph. S

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