Bilbao L Cristobal Balenciaga Museum

The recently completed Bilbao L Cristobal Balenciaga Museum in the village of Getaria in Spain is dedicated to the life and work of the Spanish Couturier Cristobal Balenciago.  AV62 Arquitectos won a competition to curate a permanent exhibition within the museum and design the museum's interiors.  The result is an exhibition that convincingly integrates architecture with art, bringing together space, movement and light with the wondrous artistic creations of Cristobal Balenciago.  In the words of the AV62: "The museum design project positions Balenciaga in the ambit of the great creative figures of the twentieth century, overcoming all hierarchical disciplinary barriers. Both spacially and conceptually speaking, his designs are displayed as they would be in any art exhibition, with contiuous and fluid spacing where the spectator and the piece itself share the same environment without separation." AV62