Architecture Preview

El Guggenheim de Bilbao
The Architect of the Guggenheim is Frank Gehry
It was finished in late 1997
It is located in Bilbao, Spain
It is a public museum
The guggenheim took about $89,000,000 USD to complete
The Basque government suggested that a museum be built
I chose this building because it had the most unique design out of all of the choices to me.

Kunsthaus Graz
The Architect of this cubist piece is Peter Cook. It was finished in 2003.  It is located in Graz, Austria. It is a public museum open to all visitors. There is no known information on the cost of the project. It was built as the cultural capital of Europe for 2003, and it commemorates 1960's modernist style artwork. I chose this pice because it stood out to me as a rather odd building. 

Casa Milà
The Casa Milà, more commonly referred to as La Pedrera, is located in Barcelona, Spain, and was built by the architect Antoni Gaudí between 1906 and 1910. Ever since 1984, it has been a World Heritage Site, but before, was private property to the Milà family. The entire mansion cost about 100,000 Pesetas. The building was created to that Pere Milà could show off his wealth flamboyantly to all of barcelona, with his new wife, a wealthy widow of an Indiano. I chose this building because the architecture is just purely beautiful. Gaudí was a very very talented architect and he finished his career with this building.

Casa do Penédo
The architect of the stone house is to this day unknown, ever since it was built in 1974.
It is located in Guimarães, Portugal.You can visit it, but it is owned by a man and his family.  there is no information on the construction of the house, but it was created as a rural escape for the family in the mid 70's. I chose this building because it reminded me of a modern day flinstones.

Norddeutsche Landesbank am Friedrichswall
The architect of this amazing building is Günter Behnisch. He had finished this building with his famous team in 2002, beginning in 1997. This Landesbank is located in Hannover, Germany. It is a corporate building that you can definitely visit, but you'd stick out like a sore thumb if you went inside and took photos like a tourist.  The project's cost has not been published publicly. I chose this building because even though Nord LB has existed over 200 years, they have a very modern and eccentric maze like building.