Guggenheim effect: how the museum helped transform Bilbao

The Basque city locals remember as grimy and industrial has changed a lot since the Frank Gehry-designed building sprang up 25 years agoEvening approaches Bilbao’s old port, bringing with it the joggers who pinball along the promenades, the tourists mulling a cruise on the dark green waters of the estuary, and the woman in the artisan ice-cream booth who keeps vigil behind tubs of dulce de leche, passionfruit and bubblegum-flavoured “blue smurf”.Close by, its titanium scales gl