The Prince of Asturias Foundation has awarded its Prize for Arts to architect Frank Gehry "in recognition of the aesthetic excellence of his creations and the economic and social impact they have had on their environment". 

Frank Gehry designed and built the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. This audacious construction, built on the river bank, fit into a planning and development project in the heart of this Basque country industrial city, which it has helped to regenerate despite economic crisis in the early 1990s.

The jury citation notes that "his buildings are characterized by a virtuoso play of complex shapes, the use of unusual materials, such as titanium, and their technological innovation,which has also had an impact on other arts". Rafael Moneo and Sir Norman Foster have also received this award, in 2012 in 2009, respectively.

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